All objects added to Islandora need to be placed in a collection.This tutorial will walk you through the steps to create a new collection in the Islandora Repository.
In this example, we will be using a site that contains no objects or collections. In this case, we will be placing our new collection in the top-level or 'root' collection (in a fresh installation of Islandora, you can navigate to the root collection by pointing your browser to http://path.to.your.site/islandora, or by clicking 'Islandora Repository' in the Navigation block).
We refer to a collection contained within another collection as a 'child collection'.
In practice, though, not all child collections need to be placed in the top-level collection. A new child collection can be placed in any object that contains the 'Collection' content model. This allows you to create both child collections and sub-child collections in much the way you would create folders and sub-folders on your computer. However, in Islandora, a collection can be the child of more than one parent collection.
Click the 'Manage' tab in the collection you would like to place your new child collection into.
This will take you to the Collection management page.
This will take you to the form to create a new child collection.
The collection form contains five major steps:
Inherit collection policy?- Check this box to copy the parent collection's collection policy into the new collection. This will include any content models the parent collection was using. In this example, the only content model in the top-level collection's collection policy was the 'Collection' content model. so no other unique content models will be pulled.
If the inherit collection policy box is not selected you will need to enter a Collection Namespace - This is the namespace objects in the new collection will use (again, check the Glossary for more information). You may select any content models which will apply to this new collection
You will now be brought to the new child collection's page.
In this example, the new child collection contains no content models that would allow for ingesting objects. A new content model would need to be assigned to the collection before the user can begin ingesting new objects. Check the tutorial on How to Manage Collection Policies to see how to turn this blank collection into a usable one. |