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Term Name: Collection |
| URI: |
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Collection
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| Label: |
Collection |
| Definition: |
A collection is an aggregation of items. The term
collection means that the resource is described as a
group; its parts may be separately described and navigated. |
| Type of Term: |
vocabulary-term
|
| Status: |
recommended
|
| Date Issued: |
2000-07-11 |
| Version: |
Collection-001
|
|
Term Name: Dataset |
| URI: |
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Dataset
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| Label: |
Dataset |
| Definition: |
A dataset is information encoded in a defined structure
(for example, lists, tables, and databases), intended to
be useful for direct machine processing. |
| Type of Term: |
vocabulary-term
|
| Status: |
recommended
|
| Date Issued: |
2000-07-11 |
| Version: |
Dataset-001
|
|
Term Name: Event |
| URI: |
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Event
|
| Label: |
Event |
| Definition: |
An event is a non-persistent, time-based occurrence.
Metadata for an event provides descriptive
information that is the basis for discovery of the
purpose, location, duration, responsible agents, and
links to related events and resources. The resource
of type event may not be retrievable if the described
instantiation has expired or is yet to occur.
Examples - exhibition, web-cast, conference,
workshop, open-day, performance, battle, trial,
wedding, tea-party, conflagration. |
| Type of Term: |
vocabulary-term
|
| Status: |
recommended
|
| Date Issued: |
2000-07-11 |
| Version: |
Event-001
|
|
Term Name: Image |
| URI: |
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Image
|
| Label: |
Image |
| Definition: |
An image is a primarily symbolic visual representation
other than text. For example - images and photographs of
physical objects, paintings, prints, drawings, other
images and graphics, animations and moving pictures,
film, diagrams, maps, musical notation. Note that image
may include both electronic and physical representations. |
| Type of Term: |
vocabulary-term
|
| Broader Than: |
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage
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| Broader Than: |
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/MovingImage
|
| Status: |
recommended
|
| Date Issued: |
2000-07-11 |
| Version: |
Image-002
|
|
Term Name: InteractiveResource |
| URI: |
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource
|
| Label: |
Interactive Resource |
| Definition: |
An interactive resource is a resource which requires
interaction from the user to be understood, executed,
or experienced. For example - forms on web pages, applets,
multimedia learning objects, chat services, virtual
reality. |
| Type of Term: |
vocabulary-term
|
| Status: |
recommended
|
| Date Issued: |
2000-07-11 |
| Version: |
InteractiveResource-001
|
|
Term Name: MovingImage |
| URI: |
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/MovingImage
|
| Label: |
Moving Image |
| Definition: |
A series of visual representations that,
when shown in succession, impart an impression
of motion. Examples of moving images are:
animations, movies, television programs,
videos, zoetropes, or visual output from
a simulation. |
| Comment: |
Instances of the type "Moving Image" must
also be describable as instances of the broader type "Image". |
| Type of Term: |
vocabulary-term
|
| Narrower Than: |
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Image
|
| Status: |
recommended
|
| Date Issued: |
2003-11-18 |
| Version: |
MovingImage-001
|
|
Term Name: PhysicalObject |
| URI: |
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/PhysicalObject
|
| Label: |
Physical Object |
| Definition: |
An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance.
For example -- a computer, the great pyramid, a
sculpture. Note that digital representations
of, or surrogates for, these things should use Image,
Text or one of the other types. |
| Type of Term: |
vocabulary-term
|
| Status: |
recommended
|
| Date Issued: |
2002-07-13 |
| Version: |
PhysicalObject-001
|
|
Term Name: Service |
| URI: |
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Service
|
| Label: |
Service |
| Definition: |
A service is a system that provides one or more
functions of value to the end-user. Examples include:
a photocopying service, a banking service, an
authentication service, interlibrary loans, a Z39.50
or Web server. |
| Type of Term: |
vocabulary-term
|
| Status: |
recommended
|
| Date Issued: |
2000-07-11 |
| Version: |
Service-001
|
|
Term Name: Software |
| URI: |
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Software
|
| Label: |
Software |
| Definition: |
Software is a computer program in source or
compiled form which may be available for installation
non-transiently on another machine. For software which
exists only to create an interactive environment, use
interactive instead. |
| Type of Term: |
vocabulary-term
|
| Status: |
recommended
|
| Date Issued: |
2000-07-11 |
| Version: |
Software-001
|
|
Term Name: Sound |
| URI: |
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound
|
| Label: |
Sound |
| Definition: |
A sound is a resource whose content is primarily
intended to be rendered as audio. For example - a
music playback file format, an audio compact disc,
and recorded speech or sounds. |
| Type of Term: |
vocabulary-term
|
| Status: |
recommended
|
| Date Issued: |
2000-07-11 |
| Version: |
Sound-001
|
|
Term Name: StillImage |
| URI: |
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage
|
| Label: |
Still Image |
| Definition: |
A static visual representation. Examples of
still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs,
plans and maps. |
| Comment: |
Recommended best practice is to assign the type
"text" to images of textual materials. Instances of
the type "Still Image" must also be describable as
instances of the broader type "Image". |
| Type of Term: |
vocabulary-term
|
| Narrower Than: |
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Image
|
| Status: |
recommended
|
| Date Issued: |
2003-11-18 |
| Version: |
StillImage-001
|
|
Term Name: Text |
| URI: |
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
|
| Label: |
Text |
| Definition: |
A text is a resource whose content is primarily
words for reading. For example - books, letters,
dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles,
archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles
or images of texts are still of the genre text. |
| Type of Term: |
vocabulary-term
|
| Status: |
recommended
|
| Date Issued: |
2000-07-11 |
| Version: |
Text-001
|
