DCMI Type VocabularyTerm Name: Collection
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http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Dataset

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http://purl.org/dc/terms/DCMIType
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http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Event

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http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Image

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http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/MovingImage
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http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/history/#Image-004

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http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/InteractiveResource

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http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/MovingImage

Collection
An aggregation of resources.
A collection is described as a group; its parts may also be separately described.
Classhttp://purl.org/dc/terms/DCMIType
http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/history/#Collection-003

Term Name: Dataset
DatasetData encoded in a defined structure.
Examples include lists, tables, and databases. A dataset may be useful for direct machineprocessing.

Term Name: EventEvent
A non-persistent, time-based occurrence.
Metadata for an event provides descriptive information that is the basis for discovery of thepurpose, location, duration, and responsible agents associated with an event. Examples
include an exhibition, webcast, conference, workshop, open day, performance, battle, trial,wedding, tea party, conflagration.

Term Name: ImageImage
A visual representation other than text.
Examples include images and photographs of physical objects, paintings, prints, drawings,
other images and graphics, animations and moving pictures, film, diagrams, maps, musicalnotation. Note that Image may include both electronic and physical representations.

Term Name: InteractiveResource
Interactive Resource
A resource requiring interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced.
Examples include forms on Web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, orvirtual reality environments.

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Moving Image
A series of visual representations imparting an impression of motion when shown insuccession.
Examples include animations, movies, television programs, videos, zoetropes, or visual output
from a simulation. Instances of the type Moving Image must also be describable as instancesof the broader type Image.
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http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/PhysicalObject

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http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Service

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http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound

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http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage

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http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text

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Term Name: PhysicalObject
Physical Object
An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance.
Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Image, Text orone of the other types.

Term Name: ServiceService
A system that provides one or more functions.
Examples include a photocopying service, a banking service, an authentication service,interlibrary loans, a Z39.50 or Web server.

Term Name: Software
Software
A computer program in source or compiled form.
Examples include a C source file, MS-Windows .exe executable, or Perl script.
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http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/history/#Software-003

Term Name: SoundSound
A resource primarily intended to be heard.
Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech orsounds.

http://dublincore.org/usage/terms/history/#Sound-003

Term Name: StillImage
Still Image
A static visual representation.
Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended bestpractice 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.

Term Name: Text
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading.
Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives ofmailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.