Driving Principles for the CSH Repository
- The data model should provide a model of the physical form of the CSH documents.
- The data model should capture all the relationships among the documents.
- The metadata profile should be designed to appropriately represent the objects.
- The repository should implement access policies and access features for tailoring multiple access profiles.
- The repository should facilitate a well documented work-flow for implementing access policies and archival.
Design Features
The CSH Repository should have the following features, as driven by the principles stated above.
Navigation Features:
- Listing of board meeting registers, patient reports, financial records, photos, etc.,
- Listing of individual pages from above mentioned registers, reports, and records,
- Ability to navigate to the previous, or next register, or report file, or records register,
- Ability to navigate to the previous or next page within a register or report file or records register,
- Ability to navigate to PDF versions of whole registers, report files, or records,
- Ability to navigate to the digital masters, derived versions, or thumbnails of individual images (as well as whole document PDFs) as per access privileges
Metadata presentation:
The following metadata information needs to be presented to users (based on their access privileges):
- Descriptive and technical metadata related to individual files
- Descriptive and technical metadata related to collections (registers, patient reports, etc.)
Access policies:
The repository needs to control the access to the materials by implementing various levels of access. For example, a class of users may only be allowed to access low-resolution versions of the scans while some others (like CSH administration) may be allowed access to the digital masters.