Appendix 9 - Type - Document Vocabulary

Text

A text is a resource whose content is primarily words for reading. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.

Refinements (optional):

/advice

advisory publications - often technical on particular topics

/agenda

meeting, conference, training or other event agenda

/checklist

a list of instructions relating to resources required to obtain a service or some other resource

/contract

a legal document recording an agreement between two or more parties

/correspondence

letter, e-mail or any other text-based communication

/form

a template to be filled in by an applicant for a service or other resource

/guide

a document specifically produced to guide in the use of a particular resource or service

/homepage

web site main page

/instructions

any training materials in text form

/journal

publishing vehicle for formal papers - often scientific or technical, or relating to a trade or profession

/manual

a document like this one

/minutes

minutes recording a meting or other event

/newsletter

a publication advising those interested in its main subject are of new events or resources

/promotion

any advertising material

/report

findings of any project or a record of recent operations in an organisation

Dataset

A dataset is information encoded in a defined structure (for example, lists, tables, and databases), intended to be useful for direct machine processing.

Refinements (optional):

/geospatial

Event

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.

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/conference, /exhibition, /webCast, /workshop

Image

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.

Refinements (optional):

/art, /hologram, /map, /plan, /movie, /photograph

Interactive resource

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.

Refinements (optional):

/art, /form, /physicalObject, /webPage

Software

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.

Sound

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.