A view declares which kinds of page it is for: spaces, people, maintained resources — any combination. A view for the pages of parts of a resource, such as the terms of a vocabulary or the paragraphs of a documentation, instead names the class of those parts, or the namespace their URIs fall under.

Declaring where a view belongs does not put it on any page yet. That is done by a display, which attaches a view to one particular resource, or by a preset, which attaches a bundle of views to every resource of a type.