vocabulary:
  name: edoc-Server DSpace REST API Vocabulary
  description: >-
    Controlled vocabulary of the core terms observed in the edoc-Server DSpace 8
    REST API at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Terms describe the repository's
    HAL/JSON resource model and the Dublin Core metadata it exposes.
  version: '8.4'
  terms:
    - term: Community
      definition: >-
        A grouping of collections and sub-communities in the repository, used to
        organize content by faculty, journal, series, or theme.
      tags: [resource, structure, dspace]
    - term: Collection
      definition: A container of items that belongs to a community.
      tags: [resource, structure, dspace]
    - term: Item
      definition: >-
        A repository record (thesis, dissertation, article, or dataset) holding
        descriptive metadata and one or more bundles of bitstreams.
      tags: [resource, content, dspace]
    - term: Bitstream
      definition: An individual file (e.g. a PDF) attached to an item via a bundle.
      tags: [resource, file, dspace]
    - term: Handle
      definition: >-
        A persistent identifier assigned to communities, collections, and items
        (e.g. 18452/21664) under the Handle System.
      tags: [identifier, persistence]
    - term: UUID
      definition: The internal universally unique identifier for every DSpace object.
      tags: [identifier]
    - term: Metadata
      definition: >-
        A map of qualified Dublin Core fields (dc.title, dc.description,
        dc.identifier.uri, etc.) to arrays of metadata values on each resource.
      tags: [metadata, dublin-core]
    - term: MetadataValue
      definition: >-
        A single metadata entry carrying value, language, authority, confidence,
        and place ordering.
      tags: [metadata]
    - term: Discover
      definition: >-
        The discovery search subsystem providing full-text and faceted querying
        over indexed repository objects.
      tags: [search, discovery]
    - term: Facet
      definition: >-
        A filterable dimension (author, subject, date, type) returned alongside
        discovery search results.
      tags: [search, discovery]
    - term: HAL
      definition: >-
        Hypertext Application Language; the response format using _links and
        _embedded to expose related resources.
      tags: [format, hypermedia]
    - term: archivedItemsCount
      definition: >-
        The count of archived items under a community or collection; -1 when not
        computed for the request.
      tags: [statistic]
    - term: OAI-PMH
      definition: >-
        The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting endpoint
        accompanying the repository for bulk metadata harvesting.
      tags: [harvesting, metadata, interoperability]