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Sub-Collection

Example

sub-collection-fields

Fields

Field Value
Resource template Collection - Sub-Collection
Class Dublin Core Type: Collection
Title The title of the item set.
Description A description of the item set. Not required, but recommended.
Relation Link to the parentcollection
Identifier Name of the folder on the server
Access settings Open, Public

Title

The title should be in the format:

Collection - [Parent Collection] - [Name], where [Parent Collection] is the name of the parent collection, and [Name] is the name of the sub-collection.

Example

Collection - Events

Collection - Events - Israel

Relation

The relation field is used to link the sub-collection to its parent collection. In this field, you will click the Item sets gray button, then click the parent collection from the list that will appear to the right. It will slide open another pane, and you will click the gray Select resource button at the bottom right.

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Identifier

The same rules apply as for the root collection, with the addition of a prefix.

For example: If the Title is Collection - Events - News Reports, and the parent collection is Collection - Events, the identifier should be a combination of the parent collection identifier and the sub-collection name.

You can nest item sets as needed, but the deeper you go the shorter you should name the identifier. Remove prepositions such as "at", "by", "to", etc. Even better, just stick to proper nouns.

Rules:

  1. It must be unique, meaning no other item set can have the same identifier.
  2. It must be as short as possible, but still descriptive enough to identify the item set
  3. It must be all lowercase.
  4. It must be prefixed with the parent collection identifier, followed by an underscore _.
  5. It must only containtain upper and lowercase letters. The recommendation is to use what is called "camel case", where the first letter of each word is capitalized, and no spaces or special characters are used. i.e. YouCanTellIndividualWordsBecauseTheFirstLetterIsCapitalized.

Example

Collection - Events -> events

Collection - Events - News Reports -> events_NewsReports

Collection - Events - News Reports - California Fires -> events_NewsReports_CAFires