Dublin Core™ Collection Description Type (CDType) Vocabulary
| Creator: | Dublin Core™ Collection Description Working Group |
|---|---|
| Date Issued: | 2006-08-01 |
| Identifier: | http://dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/collection-description/colldesc-type/2006-08-01/ |
| Replaces: | http://dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/collection-description/collection-type/2005-03-19/ |
| Latest Version: | http://dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/collection-description/colldesc-type/ |
| Description of Document: | This document describes the collection description type vocabulary used by the application profile for collection-level description developed by the Dublin Core™ Collection Description Working Group. |
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.
Collection Description Type Vocabulary [cld:CDType]
| Identifier | http://example.org/cld/terms#CDType |
|---|---|
| Name | CDType |
| Label | Collection Description Type Vocabulary |
| Defined By |
Collection Description Terms http://example.org/cld/terms# |
| Definition |
A list of types that categorize a collection description. |
| Comments | |
| See Also |
An Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/rslp/model/ |
| Type of Term | Vocabulary Encoding Scheme |
| Encoding Scheme for |
Type, Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set, v1.1 [dc:type] http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/type |
Vocabulary Terms
Collection Description [cdtype:CollectionDescription]
| Identifier | http://example.org/cld/cdtype#CollectionDescription |
|---|---|
| Name | Collection Description |
| Label | Collection Description |
| Defined By |
Collection Description Type Vocabulary http://example.org/cld/cdtype# |
| Definition |
A description of a collection. |
| Comments | |
| See Also |
An Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/rslp/model/ |
| Type of Term | Class |
| Type of Term | Vocabulary Term |
| SubClass Of | [n/a] |
Catalogue [cdtype:Catalogue]
| Identifier | http://example.org/cld/cdtype#Catalogue |
|---|---|
| Name | Catalogue |
| Label | Catalogue |
| Defined By |
Collection Description Type Vocabulary http://example.org/cld/cdtype# |
| Definition |
A description of a collection. |
| Comments | |
| See Also |
An Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/rslp/model/ |
| Type of Term | Class |
| Type of Term | Vocabulary Term |
| SubClass Of |
Collection, Dublin Core™ Type Vocabulary [dcmitype:Collection] http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Collection |
| SubClass Of |
Collection Description, Collection Description Type Vocabulary [cdtype:CollectionDescription] http://example.org/cld/cdtype#CollectionDescription |
Hierarchic Finding Aid [cdtype:HierarchicFindingAid]
| Identifier | http://example.org/cld/cdtype#HierarchicFindingAid |
|---|---|
| Name | HierarchicFindingAid |
| Label | Hierarchic Finding Aid |
| Defined By |
Collection Description Type Vocabulary http://example.org/cld/cdtype# |
| Definition |
A collection of records describing the individual items, and the intellectual content of thos items, of a second collection. The records are firmly grounded within the overall arrangement of the collection, e.g. grouping together all the letters, account books etc. in an ordered sequence or sequences. Items are often not uniquely identifiable when considered in isolation, so the context of the collection is an essential element in compiling the hierarchic finding-aid. Hierarchic finding-aids are typically created with significant human input. |
| Comments | |
| See Also |
An Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/rslp/model/ |
| Type of Term | Class |
| Type of Term | Vocabulary Term |
| SubClass Of |
Collection, Dublin Core™ Type Vocabulary [dcmitype:Collection] http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Collection |
| SubClass Of |
Collection Description, Collection Description Type Vocabulary [cdtype:CollectionDescription] http://example.org/cld/cdtype#CollectionDescription |
Index [cdtype:Index]
| Identifier | http://example.org/cld/cdtype#Index |
|---|---|
| Name | Index |
| Label | Index |
| Defined By |
Collection Description Type Vocabulary http://example.org/cld/cdtype# |
| Definition |
A collection of records consisting of information derived from items in a second collection, regardless of the content of those items. By this is meant that an index - for example a robotic search engine - will index the words in a document (or catalogue record) regardless of their context and without trying to identify the discrete elements of intellectual content contained therein. Indexes are typically generated automatically by a software robot or other harvesting technology. |
| Comments | |
| See Also |
An Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/rslp/model/ |
| Type of Term | Class |
| Type of Term | Vocabulary Term |
| SubClass Of |
Collection, Dublin Core™ Type Vocabulary [dcmitype:Collection] http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Collection |
| SubClass Of |
Collection Description, Collection Description Type Vocabulary [cdtype:CollectionDescription] http://example.org/cld/cdtype#CollectionDescription |
Changes made in this version
- Reduce to Collection Description types only
- Rename to Collection Description Type Vocabulary