Faces Application Profile Album

Introduction
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Aim and Scope
NOTE: Albums have been called Study Sets or - technically - Bundles before.

An album is a set of selected pictures, which can be published (state released) but also can be used as a private (state submitted) selection. It can be created by a user who automatically is the owner of the album. To create an album means to create new content with its own metadata set.

Albums will be versioned. This means after each change of the album a new version will be created.

As being a content that can be published, each album in its internal workflow goes through the following states: submitted (private), released (published) and (optionally) withdrawn. When changing the status, a version comment can be entered and will be stored. The main workflow is the following:


 * 1) An album is created by the owner and is visible by default only to him (status: submitted). In this state, the owner can also decide to open the album for further editing and specifies users who can further work on the album.
 * 2) After decision that the album is in state for publishing, the owner publishes the album and it will be assigned with a persistent identifier. Released albums are visible to all account users and can be referenced as source for a publication. They can be cited, because the metadata of the album will be available for all users (not only account users, as the pictures will be). This information will also be part of the application release agreement. (status: released).
 * 3) Optionally: An album can be withdrawn by the owner in case when it is not a valid scientific content any more (or from other reasons). Withdrawn albums are only visible through the owners album list or through the direct URL (status: withdrawn).

Technically, an album is a container (similar to a collection).

The difference between an album and a collection is that an album can have contributors and a collection must have a date created.

Related Application Profiles
eSciDoc Faces
 * ESciDoc Application Profile Publication
 * Faces Application Profile Collection
 * Faces Application Profile FacesFile
 * Faces Application Profile FacesItem