vocabulary: name: Imperial College London Spiral DSpace Vocabulary description: >- Controlled vocabulary for the concepts exposed by Imperial College London's Spiral open-access repository via the DSpace 7.6.1 REST API. Terms reflect the live HAL+JSON contract observed at https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/server/api . version: "7.6.1" terms: - term: Community definition: >- A top-level or nested organisational grouping in DSpace (e.g. a faculty or department) that contains sub-communities and collections. tags: [core, structure, dspace] - term: Collection definition: >- A grouping of items within a community; the container into which research outputs are deposited. tags: [core, structure, dspace] - term: Item definition: >- A single deposited research output (article, thesis, dataset record) with Dublin Core metadata and one or more bitstreams. tags: [core, content, dspace] - term: Bitstream definition: >- A binary file (e.g. PDF) attached to an item via a bundle. tags: [core, content, dspace] - term: Handle definition: >- A persistent identifier for a DSpace object, e.g. 10044/1/118549, resolvable under the 10044 prefix. tags: [identifier, persistent] - term: Metadata definition: >- A map of qualified Dublin Core field keys (e.g. dc.title, dc.contributor.author) to arrays of metadata value objects. tags: [metadata, dublin-core] - term: MetadataValue definition: >- A single metadata entry carrying value, language, authority, confidence, and place (ordering) attributes. tags: [metadata, dublin-core] - term: Discover definition: >- The search and browse subsystem exposing /discover/search/objects for full-text and faceted queries over indexed objects. tags: [search, discovery] - term: DSpaceObject definition: >- The common base of communities, collections, and items, identified by a UUID and carrying metadata and HAL _links. tags: [core, model, dspace] - term: OAI-PMH definition: >- Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, the standards-based metadata harvesting interface offered alongside the REST API. tags: [harvesting, standard, interoperability]