ESciDoc Logical Data Model

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Introduction

An overview (data model) of the basic object patterns within the eSciDoc.

Basic object patterns

• Item
• Container
• Context
• Organizational unit

Item

• 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

Publication items

• 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
  • Component1:one published version of the fulltext of the article
    • Component1.MetadataRecord1: title, description of the full-text, reference to the license
    • Component1.MetadataRecord2: technical metadata of the file (e.g. generated from JHove)
    • Component1.Content: the actual PDF
  • Component2:supplementary material e.g. data on results provided in the fulltext of the article
    • Component2.MetadataRecord1: title, description of the file
    • Component2.MetadataRecord2: technical metadata of the file (e.g. generated from JHove)
• Example:
  • item presented
  • Publication item in the repository

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