New catalog entity "Collection" #299
Description
There is need for a new entity type "Collection".
A collection is the summary of individual sources gathered by a single person and that is stored in a single holding institution (e.g. library). A single holding institution can have more than one collection by different collectors.
The new entity (cmo_collection) will be used for an autonomous corpus of sources, usually belonging to a historical collector. For example the Rauf Yekta Collection, or the İsmâîl Hakkı Bey Collection, or the Râşid Efendî Collection. We may also use the Collection entity to group sources written by the same scribe (Hamparsum collection, or Mandoli Artin collection), so one source may actually belong to more than one 'Collection'.
Aim is to trace the transmission of individual sources between author / collector / bequest / institution.
A 'Collection' will have its own metadata set, and be an entity that consists only of sources. All sources belonging to the collection will be listed on the Collection page, and should be linked to on the Collection page.
This reflects the same hierarchy as the source-expression relations. Collections is a container for Sources, just as a Source is a container for Expressions.
The linking can also function in the same way, by adding a 'components' section to the Collection creation page where we will add a list of cmo_source(s) that will then appear in the list of sources on the Collection page....
in the same way as we add a list of cmo_expression(s) to the 'components' section of the Source creation page.
A Source should also be able to belong to more than one collection.
Work numbers are not really relevant to the discussion of collections yet, and are only used for expressions and their concordances, but there may be ways to create cluster groups of sources based on historical or scribal ties that we can discuss, but we might be able to use the same concept of 'collection' to represent related sources somehow...
COLLECTION : cmo_collection
the 'Collection' entity/dataset will represent autonomous collections and their archives, whether private or within institutions.
CMO Identifier
Name / Title
Collector (cmo_person)
Contents (instrumental/vocal sources, theoretical treatises, etc)
Scope (print / manuscript, sanat / folk, music notes/treatises)
Notion types (Hamparsum, Byzantine, multiple, etc)
Scribes (link to cmo_person list)
Dates
Holding institution (and their RISM siglum)
Location
Description (text based field)
History (text based field)
Contents (components / source list)