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Description
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We need a better summary to describes the 4 services currently identified. |
Resource Entity
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A Resource is something that is tracked as an entity in the system, and which may have a fair amount of metadata and capabilities, but which is not one of the managed "objects" of a collection. These include images (in some cases, where images are first-class collection objects), documents, letters, etc. |
It is not that this is abstract, in the way that grouping (exhibits or collections) is. Neither are resources entirely external in the manner of the book described by a bibliographic reference. Rather, resources are things that have digital representation, that need to be tracked in the system, but that are not the objects under management in the collections. Examples include images, reports, scanned articles, etc. These may act as annotations to an object, to an event, to a person or organization. These may also be the object of annotations. These may support upload/download, viewing, transformation (to produce derivatives like thumbnails, etc.), indexing for search, deduplication.
Note that a reference to an external resource (e.g., an URL to a web-page or to an image hosted on, e.g., Flickr) is not modeled as a resource, as the representation is not managed by C-Space services. Cf. Reference entities.
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