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Guidelines for cataloguing images using the Picture Queensland web form
Guidelines also available as Word document [new window 
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11. Type
Field Label: RESOURCE TYPE
Definition: The category or genre of the resource.
Purpose: This element is used to specify the nature of the resource and allows a search to be restricted to resources of a certain kind. For example “Find all images of Sir Samuel Griffith” or “Find all text items in the Rawson Collection”
Obligation: Mandatory
Schemes: DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative List of Resource Types)
Input guidelines
11.1 The resource type is selected from the controlled list of values in DCMI Type Vocabulary [new window http://www.au.dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-type-vocabulary/index.html].
11.2 The term used for images or photographs of physical objects, paintings, prints, drawings, etc is:
image
11.3 If non-image resources are added to Picture Queensland, eg, diaries, sound files, etc., other resource Types would be used, eg, Text, Sound, etc, as defined in the DCMI Type Vocabulary.
Last updated: 17th April 2007
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