ESciDoc Logical Data Model
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Introduction[edit]
An overview (data model) of the basic object patterns within the eSciDoc.
Basic object patterns[edit]
- Item
- Container
- Context
- Organizational unit
Item[edit]
- An Item represents minimal unit of content managed in the system. Each Item comprises of:
- at least one MetadataRecord - represents one or more metadata descriptions of the overall content represented with the item
- zero or more Component - represents a single content and at least one metadata description
Examples[edit]
Publication items[edit]
- An Item object is an Article published in a journal
- MetadataRecord: contains the bibliographic metadata (title, author, publication type e.g. journal article, author affiliation, year of publication, etc.) structured accordingly a particular metadata profile
- the published version of the fulltext of the article