Element: Type
- Interpretation: The nature of the resource, including such aspects as originality, aggregation and manifestation.
- Guideline:
- Helps to decide the values of other elements
- To aid in searching across collections and across different disciplines among museums, specify TYPE from:
1. List of controlled values maintained by the DC community: text, image, sound, dataset, software, interactive, physical object, event
and the following list of museum-related values:
2. original or surrogate
3. item or collection
4. natural or cultural
- list elements in the order as above for consistency reason (Note: element order is irrelevant in Dublin Core)