Planning the CMS structure
Whenever you're about to start working on setting up Collections in Webflow CMS, it's always a good idea to take a few minutes to think through the data structure that you're looking to represent in your CMS and website. This not only gives you a good mental model of what data you'll need, but it will also assist you in thinking about what the website and its pages will look like.
In our case, since we're creating a curation site for libraries around the world, it stands to reason that we can call our Collection Libraries.
Within our Libraries Collection, we'll have a grouping of Library items. Each Library item will, in turn, have several fields, most of which we already mentioned in the previous section. The following diagram shows a visual breakdown of the data structure that we'll be setting up in Webflow CMS:
Figure 9.5 – The Collection structure of Libraries of the World
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