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Currently no attributes for <physicalDescription> are implemented in the DAMS.
Subelements
The following subelements of <physicalDescription> are used in the DAMS:
- internetMediaType
- (extent)
- (form)
Subelement <physicalDescription><internetMediaType>
Guidelines for use
The file format in subelement <internetMediaType> is specified according to the template given in IANA's list of Media Types (formerly known as MIME types): https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml. Note that the expected values in the DAMS in some cases differ from the IANA specification. The expected values for JPEG and GIF images are "image/jpeg" and "image/gif" respectively, even though these values are not present in the IANA list.
The DAMS software expects one of the following values for file format specification:
| File format | internetMediaType value | DAMS manual ingest form label | Available for Content Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canon Raw V2 | image/x-raw | cr2 | Image |
| Graphics Interchange Format | image/gif | gif | Image |
| JPEG (ISO/IEC 10918-1) | image/jpeg | jpg/jpeg | Image |
| Portable Network Graphics | image/png | png | Image |
| Photoshop Document | application/photoshop | psd | Image |
| Tagged Image File Format | image/tiff | tif/tiff | Image |
| * | other | other | Image |
| Audio Interchange File Format | audio/aiff | aif/aiff | Audio |
| AU Sound file | audio/au | au | Audio |
| MPEG-4 Audio file (typically AAC, ALAC) | audio/m4a | m4a | Audio |
| MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer III | audio/mpeg | mp3 | Audio |
| Waveform Audio File Format | audio/x-wav | wav | Audio |
| Windows Media Audio | audio/wma | wma | Audio |
| * | other | other | Audio |
| Portable Document Format | application/pdf | Paged Content | |
| Tagged Image File Format | image/tiff | tif/tiff | Paged Content |
| * | other | other | Paged Content |
| not-applicable | N/A | Paged Content | |
| Comma-separated values | text/csv | csv | Text |
| Office Open XML (WordprocessingML) | application/msword | docx | Text |
| EPUB | text/epub | epub | Text |
| Portable Document Format | application/pdf | Text | |
| Rich Text Format | text/rtf | rtf | Text |
| Plain text | text/txt | txt | Text |
| Text file with XML content | text/xml | xml | Text |
| Office Open XML (SpreadsheetML) | application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet | xlsx | Text |
| Microsoft Excel (BIFF) | application/vnd.ms-excel | xls | Text |
| * | other | other | Text |
| Audio Video Interleave | video/avi | avi | Video |
| Camtasia Studio recording | video/camrec | camrec | Video |
ISO  | binary/iso | iso | Video |
| M4V File (Apple) | video/m4v | m4v | Video |
| QuickTime File Format | video/quicktime | mov | Video |
| MPEG-4 Part 14 | video/mp4 | mp4 | Video |
| MPEG Transport Stream (container format for different kinds of video format) | video/mts | mts | Video |
| Shockwave Flash | application/x-shockwave-flash | swf | Video |
| Windows Media Video | video/x-ms-wmv | wmv | Video |
| * | other | other | Video |
Attributes
Element Parts | Details | XPath syntax examples |
|---|---|---|
| lang | values:
Enter ISO-639-2 language code (3 letters). Default value is "eng" for English. Additional information: Preferably, use ISO-639-2 codes designated "T" (terminology use). | physicalDescription/internetMediaType[@lang="eng"] |
| displayLabel | value:
| physicalDescription/internetMediaType[@displayLabel="File Format"] |
Subelements
No subelements for <internetMediaType>.
XML Examples
| Code Block | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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<physicalDescription> <internetMediaType lang="eng" displayLabel="File format">image/jpeg</internetMediaType> </physicalDescription> <physicalDescription> <internetMediaType lang="eng" displayLabel="File format">application/pdf</internetMediaType> </physicalDescription |
Mappings
Dublin Core
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