What is a Collection?
This section of the manual explains what a collection is and what user can do with a collection. For instructions on
how to create a collection in Morphbank go to
How to Make a Collection
A collection is a group of any objects in the Morphbank database assembled by members for the purpose of viewing and/or manipulating (e.g. rearranging the order, editing, and/or annotating, etc.) and storing the collected objects for future use.
Collections:
- must have at least one image/object. Deleting the last image will leave an empty collection. Do not delete it.
- have an order based on the owner's criteria. The initial order will correspond to the order the objects were initially selected.
- are identified by a unique internal id.
- are published (viewable to the world) when released by the creator (default 6 months if not otherwise notified).
Guidelines for working with collections:
A User may have multiple collections that will be identified by a name on the screen. Since the collection will have a unique internal identifier, the name may be duplicated but is not recommended.Unpublished owned collections:
- A user may alter the makeup of their own unpublished collection by adding or deleting images or other objects.
- An image or other Morphbank object can be added to a user's unpublished established collection.
- A user may delete one or more images/objects (or an entire collection) from an unpublished, owned collection.
- A user may change the order of the images/objects in their own unpublished collections.
- A collection owner may move an image/object from one unpublished collection to another owned, unpublished collection.
- An owner of an unpublished collection may annotate that collection.
Unpublished collections owned by other users:
A user may...
- browse and view unpublished collections of other users within groups to which he/she belongs.
- make a copy of an unpublished collection of another user provided they belong to the same group.
- copy an image from any collection to another unpublished, owned collection
- annotate an unpublished collection owned by another member in the group.
Published collections:
- A user may make a copy of any published collection. (This copy then becomes an unpublished collection owned by the user and group who created it.)
- A published collection cannot be edited by anyone but may be annotated.
The user's group/user's collection relationship:
- The user's collection will be shared with a group in Morphbank. The user must declare which group they belong to before they create the collection and that collection is shared with the declared group.
- The collection will be immediately viewable to all users in that group. (The collection cannot be accessed by the world until it is published).
- Although the owner may alter their own collection, other members of the group may not (but they may annotate it)
- Other members of the group may make a copy of another user's collection and thus create their own personal copy.
Managing collections:
The Collection Manager has been replaced with the Collections tab in the new My Manager interface of Morphbank. The Collections tab offers the user a list of all public collections and any they've created (public or private). The user can view other collections there and in addition, modify any of their own unpublished collections. There is no limit on the number of collections a user may have.New collections are created or copied through any of the My Manager tabs, Browse pages, Browse - Collections or through the results of a Search. Access all collections owned by other users in Morphbank thru the My Manager - Collections tab or Browse - Collections screen. The Collections tab of the My Manager interface allows users to keep track of their personal collections and is directly accessed from the Header Menu > Tools > My Manager.
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