Abstract

REQUIRED

MODS Element name: <typeOfResource>

Short definition: A term that specifies the characteristics and general type of content of the resource.

Input guidelines: Specify the characteristics and general type of content of the resource (original resource, not digitized version). Information on the Type of Resource is about the original item. For example, in the case of a digitized photograph, Type of Resource information would apply to the analog original; in born-digital materials, it would apply to the original digital format. This element includes a high-level type that categorizes the material in a general way using an enumerated list of values. More specific typing is done in the information on Genre.

Select one of the available values for resource type and indicate if the content is a manuscript or not. Manuscripts are locally defined as unpublished, single instance textual materials, notated music, and cartographic materials. Manuscripts can be handwritten, typed (typescript), or computer printout materials intended to exist as a single instance. Follow your unit/collection guidelines per Supervisor/Collection Owner.

Per MODS specification, the following values are available for typeOfResource:

• text – Resources that are basically textual in nature.
• cartographic – Includes maps, atlases, globes, digital maps, and other cartographic items.
• notated music – Graphic, non-realized representations of musical works, both in printed and digitized manifestations that represent the four components of musical sound: pitch, duration, timbre, and loudness.
• sound recording – Used when a mixture of musical and nonmusical sound recordings occurs in a resource or when a user does not want to or cannot make a distinction between musical and nonmusical.
• sound recording-musical – Used when a resource is predominately a musical sound recording.
• sound recording-nonmusical – Used when the sound recording is nonmusical in nature.
• still image – Includes two-dimensional images and slides and transparencies.
• moving image – Includes motion pictures and videorecordings, as well as television programs, digital video, and animated computer graphics—but not slides and transparencies. It does not include moving images that are primarily computer programs, such as computer games or computer-oriented multimedia; these are included in "software, multimedia".
• three dimensional object – Includes man-made objects such as models, sculptures, clothing, and toys, as well as naturally occurring objects such as specimens mounted for viewing.
• software, multimedia – Appropriate for any electronic resource without a significant aspect that indicates one of the other <typeOfResource> categories. It includes: software, numeric data, computer-oriented multimedia, and online systems and services.
• mixed material – Indicates that there are significant materials in two or more forms that are usually related by virtue of their having been accumulated by or about a person or body. Mixed material includes archival fonds and manuscript collections of mixed forms of materials, such as text, photographs, and sound recordings.

Definition

A term that specifies the characteristics and general type of content of the resource. Information on Type of Resource is about the original item.

DAMS input form fields

Type of Resource

MODS Element description

Element <typeOfResource>

http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/userguide/typeofresource.html

Guidelines for use

Specify the characteristics and general type of content of the resource (original resource, not digitized version). Information on the Type of Resource is about the original item. For example, in the case of a digitized photograph, Type of Resource information would apply to the analog original; in born-digital materials, it would apply to the original digital format. This element includes a high-level type that categorizes the material in a general way using an enumerated list of values. More specific typing is done in the information on Genre.

Select one of the available values for resource type and indicate if the content is a manuscript or not. Manuscripts are locally defined as unpublished, single instance textual materials, notated music, and cartographic materials. Manuscripts can be handwritten, typed (typescript), or computer printout materials intended to exist as a single instance. Follow your unit/collection guidelines per Supervisor/Collection Owner.

Per MODS specification, the following values are available for typeOfResource:

• text – Resources that are basically textual in nature.
• cartographic – Includes maps, atlases, globes, digital maps, and other cartographic items.
• notated music – Graphic, non-realized representations of musical works, both in printed and digitized manifestations that represent the four components of musical sound: pitch, duration, timbre, and loudness.
• sound recording – Used when a mixture of musical and nonmusical sound recordings occurs in a resource or when a user does not want to or cannot make a distinction between musical and nonmusical.
• sound recording-musical – Used when a resource is predominately a musical sound recording.
• sound recording-nonmusical – Used when the sound recording is nonmusical in nature.
• still image – Includes two-dimensional images and slides and transparencies.
• moving image – Includes motion pictures and videorecordings, as well as television programs, digital video, and animated computer graphics—but not slides and transparencies. It does not include moving images that are primarily computer programs, such as computer games or computer-oriented multimedia; these are included in "software, multimedia".
• three dimensional object – Includes man-made objects such as models, sculptures, clothing, and toys, as well as naturally occurring objects such as specimens mounted for viewing.
• software, multimedia – Appropriate for any electronic resource without a significant aspect that indicates one of the other <typeOfResource> categories. It includes: software, numeric data, computer-oriented multimedia, and online systems and services.
• mixed material – Indicates that there are significant materials in two or more forms that are usually related by virtue of their having been accumulated by or about a person or body. Mixed material includes archival fonds and manuscript collections of mixed forms of materials, such as text, photographs, and sound recordings.

Attributes

Subelements

No subelements for <typeOfResource>.

XML Examples

<typeOfResource lang="eng">cartographic</typeOfResource>

<typeOfResource lang="eng">three dimensional object</typeOfResource>

<typeOfResource lang="eng" manuscript="yes">text</typeOfResource>

Mappings

Dublin Core