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title: "Curator article templates"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.ipv.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Collections explained

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Curator provides functionality to compile assets into one collection to further assist your asset management and editing journeys. The purpose of a collection could be:

- **Final exports** - Compile all completed edits of a production, series, ready for review or completion
- **Topic/category** - Compile all assets relating to a particular topic
- **Edit readiness** - Compile all assets into a collection ready to provide to an editor to use for their editing session, rather than the editor having to search for each asset and location.
- **Action/task** - Compile all assets into a collection to ensure any action/request or task for all of the assets that the collection contains can be submitted just the one time, for the collection (of assets).

Collections are a collaborative area for specific asset review. An asset can be added to multiple collections across different asset management and editing journeys (as described above). ([Asset location information](/docs/asset-location-information)) Collections also have metadata applied to them to ensure the collection is searchable. Collections are accessible depending on the folder they are stored in. Any user can add assets to a collection.

> **Curator 4.4 and later:** to remove an asset from a collection, you need Write permission on the folder that contains the collection (earlier versions needed Delete permission). See [Collection permissions](/docs/collection-permissions).