| Name of Term | type | |
| Term URI | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/type | |
| Label | Resource Type | |
| Defined By | http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ | |
| Source Definition | The nature or genre of the content of the resource. | |
| DC-Gov Definition | ||
| Source Comments | Type includes terms describing general categories, functions, genres, or aggregation levels for content. Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary (for example, the list of DCMI Types). To describe the physical or digital manifestation of the resource, use the Format element. | |
| DC-Gov Comments | Use a controlled list and identify the source with encoding scheme. Recommended that at least one value from DCMI-Type be supplied for a high level category. Use a controlled list and identify the source with encoding scheme. | |
| Type of term | element | |
| Refines | ||
| Refined By | ||
| Has Encoding Scheme | DCMIType - http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/The DCMI Type Vocabulary is a list of types used to categorize the nature or genre of the content of the resource. See also http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-type-vocabulary/ | |
| Obligation | O | |
| Occurence | Type may be repeated for each encoding scheme used. | |