Sets of often unique objects and items of different types collected usually to be exhibited. Collections normally include a collecting policy for new acquisitions, so only objects and items in certain categories and of a certain quality are accepted into the collection. Objects in a collection are normally catalogued, traditionally in a card index, but nowadays this is being replaced by computerized database also for physical collections. These type of RIs are particularly relevant for the humanities, which often deal with the study of unique artefacts, but they can be relevant for other domains, such as social sciences, life and environmental sciences
PHYSICAL
▪ Museums
▪ Galleries
▪ Analogue audio/visual/multimedia collections
▪ Archaeology, Anthropology and Ethnology Collections
▪ Arts & Art History Collections
▪ Music and Instrument Collections
▪ Datasets (e.g. analogue audio/visual/multimedia datasets)
DIGITAL
▪ Archaeology, Anthropology and Ethnology Collections
▪ Arts & Art History Collections
▪ Digitised Manuscript Collections
▪ Music and Instrument Collections
▪ Virtual museums
▪ Virtual galleries
▪ Datasets
