Dublin Core Collection Description Type (CDType) Vocabulary

Introduction

The Collection Description Type (CDType) Vocabulary provides a set of classes that can be used as values of the dc:type property in descriptions of collection descriptions. It has been developed in association with the Dublin Core Collection Description Application Profile (DC CD AP) but this vocabulary is independent of that profile and the classes defined here may be referenced in other metadata descriptions

The Collection Description Type (CDType) Vocabulary is based on the typology of collection descriptions in Michael Heaney's An Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues

Note

Where the names are listed below as Qualified Names, prefixes are assumed to be associated with Namespace Names as follows:

• dc: http:/purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
• dcterms: http://purl.org/dc/terms/
• dcmitype: http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/
• cld: (collection-specific properties: URIs to be confirmed, temporary Namespace Name/URI http://example.org/cld/terms#)
• cdtype: (collection description type terms: URIs to be confirmed, temporary Namespace Name/URI http://example.org/cld/cdtype#)

Please note that where terms have Qualified Names with the prefixes cld and cdtype, this indicates that those terms have not yet been assigned persistent URIs. Until such persistent URIs are assigned, by DCMI or by some other naming authority, these terms should be considered to be unstable and should not be referenced in metadata descriptions, except as part of the evaluation/testing of this vocabulary.