This section contains descriptions of the Components, Resources, Products, and Documentation that the Archive uses to undertake Ingest Projects and create Submission Agreements. Each Component, Resource, Product, and Documentation includes a description, an explanation of its role in the Ingest process, and a listing of all the steps that use, produce, and modify it. They are listed alphabetically.

How these Resources and Components manifest themselves varies from Archive to Archive. Therefore, this section of the Ingest Guides describes each Resource and Component generally but does not prescribe their composition in detail. This section essentially highlights the need for the Archive to have these Resources and Components in some form, but does not extensively describe the manner of their existence. This section describes twelve Components, thirty Resources, eight Products, and twelve instances of Documentation.

Components
Expressions or selections of Resources the Archive documents in a Submission Agreement. The Components document decisions the Archive makes for the scope, transfer, validation, and transformation of records in an Ingest Project.

Resources
The Archive's standing policies, procedures, metadata records, or logs of action. Resources dictate the actions the Archive undertakes during its Ingest Projects. Resources are not specific to any single Ingest Project. The Submission Agreement references Resources through Components.

Products
Objects created or modified as a result of the work the Archive and the Producer undertake during an Ingest Project.

Documentation
Expressions of decisions the Archive makes during an Ingest Project that the Archive does not need in its Submission Agreement to undertake transfer, validation, and transformation but does need to document all of its Ingest decisions.