Repository Structure: Communities, Collections, and Items

By Joseph Alan Pruett (Unlicensed)


Repository Structure: Communities and Collections


COMMUNITY - Highest level of DSpace hierarchy; can contain sub-communities and/or collections

SUB-COMMUNITY (optional) - if used, contains collections or additional nested sub-communities

COLLECTION - contains items

ITEM - Contains bitstreams (i.e. files), metadata, and license

Repository structure: Example #1

Repository Structure: Example #2

Example from Texas ScholarWorks

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