Favorite Things Collection¶
A favorite things collection is a personal list of the metadata elements that someone wants to keep close at hand - the assets, projects, communities and colleagues' profiles they return to regularly.
It is an ordinary collection used as a home collection: it is chained off the individual's personal profile using the ResourceList relationship, and its members are linked with CollectionMembership. The same mechanism supports the equivalent lists for a team, a project or a community.
Keeping these lists in open metadata rather than in a single user interface has two consequences. Any tool the individual uses can offer the same personalized starting point, and the individual can choose to receive notifications when the elements on their lists change.
A related, automatically maintained list is the RecentAccess collection, which a user interface uses to track the elements someone has been working with. Where a favorite things collection records what the person chose to keep, a recent access collection records where they have been.
Additional information
- The Collection type and its classifications are described in Model 0021 Collections; the ResourceList relationship is in Model 0019 More Information.
- The My Profile API supports the personalization built on top of these lists.
- The Collection Manager API provides the general operations for managing collections.
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