Object¶
PCDM defines a class called pcdm:Object. Objects have descriptive metadata, access metadata, may contain files
and other Objects as member “components”. An instance of a pcdm:Object is capable of standing on its own, being
linked to from Collections and other Objects, and can be ordered using the ORE Proxy class.
The PCDM Works extension defines several subclasses of pcdm:Object including:
pcdmworks:FileSetpcdmworks:Rangepcdmworks:Work
These subclasses are designed to be used with the properties that PCDM defines for the Object class while giving you flexibility and a way to more easily differentiate these various ideas.
Because of this, pcdm:Object won’t be used directly as nodes in our repository.