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Read and assess content pages

A content page turns a PCA resource into a human-readable view. Use it to understand the resource itself and the context around it—its identifier, owning collection, hierarchy, provenance, lifecycle status, mappings, and historical or replacement information.

Read a content page

  1. Open the content page from search or from a known link.
  2. Confirm the IRI, label, type, and owning collection. Similar labels can identify different concepts.
  3. Read the definition and any stated source. A definition source is evidence for the wording; it is not the same as a semantic mapping.
  4. Inspect parent, child, property, dependency, and related-term links.
  5. Check status and version information. Prefer a replacement over a Deprecated item.
  6. Assess external mappings and their relationship type before treating identifiers as equivalent.
  7. Choose the next action: follow links, retrieve a representation, edit a Draft if you are its Creator, or submit it for review.

Interpret the actions on a page

  • Edit this resource is available for supported Draft types to a Creator.
  • Submit for review is available for a Draft to an authorized Creator or Reviewer.
  • Submitted/Pending review content is locked against Creator editing.
  • Externally Managed content is not managed through PCA's content lifecycle and cannot enter the built-in authoring workflow.

The absence of an action is meaningful: check your role, the resource type, and its status before reporting a platform error.

Continue from the page

  • Follow hierarchy and relationship links to understand the surrounding model.
  • Preserve the displayed resource identifier when referring to the concept elsewhere.
  • Continue to Use data in applications for machine-readable retrieval.
  • Continue to Create and extend content if the needed content does not exist or a new governed version is required.

Technical note

The page URL and the RDF identifier can differ in host or scheme for supported legacy identifiers. Preserve the identifier supplied in the resource data and follow the platform link for access. Identifiers and representations explains how these two addresses relate.