description_types.yml
# Description type validation
access.accessContact:
- value: email
description: Email address for a contact person or institution concerning the resource.
- value: repository
description: Institution providing access to the resource.
access.digitalLocation:
- value: discovery
description: Online location for the purpose of discovering the resource.
access.note:
- value: access restriction
description: Restrictions on or conditions for gaining access to the resource.
- value: display label
description: Display label for the purl.
- value: license
description: License describing allowed uses of the resource.
- value: use and reproduction
description: Information related to allowed uses of the resource in other contexts.
access.physicalLocation:
- value: discovery
description: Location where a user may find the resource.
- value: location
description: Physical location of the resource, or path to the resource on a hard drive or disk.
- value: repository
description: The institution holding the resource.
- value: series
description: Archival series of the resource.
status: deprecated
use: relatedResource.title.value with relatedResource type "host" and displayLabel "Series"
- value: shelf locator
description: Identifier or shelfmark indicating the location of the resource.
adminMetadata.note:
- value: record information
description: General information about the metadata record.
- value: record origin
description: The source of the record, such as another record transformed to generate the current record.
contributor:
- value: conference
description: An event focusing on a particular topic or discipline.
- value: event
description: A time-bound occurrence.
- value: family
description: A group of individuals related by blood or personal alliance.
- value: organization
description: An institution or other corporate or collective body.
- value: person
description: An individual identity.
- value: unspecified others
description: Designator for one or more additional contributors not named individually.
contributor.identifier:
- value: ORCID
description: Identifier from orcid.org.
- value: Wikidata
description: Identifier from wikidata.org.
contributor.name:
- value: alternative
description: Additional nonpreferred form of name.
- value: display
description: Preferred form of the name for display.
- value: forename
description: First or given name or names.
- value: inverted full name
description: Name given in last name, first name order.
- value: pseudonym
description: Name used that differs from legal or primary form of name.
- value: surname
description: Last or family name or names.
- value: transliteration
description: Name originally in non-Latin script presented phonetically using Latin characters.
contributor.name.structuredValue:
- value: activity dates
description: The date or dates when someone was producing work.
- value: forename
description: First or given name or names.
- value: life dates
description: Birth and death dates, or dates when an entity was in existence.
- value: name
description: Name provided alongside additional information.
- value: ordinal
description: Indicator that the name is one in a series (e.g. Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King, Jr.).
- value: surname
description: Last or family name or names.
- value: term of address
description: Title or other signifier associated with name.
contributor.name.groupedValue:
- value: alternative
description: Additional nonpreferred form of name.
- value: name
description: Primary form of name within group of values.
- value: pseudonym
description: Name used that differs from legal or primary form of name.
contributor.note:
- value: affiliation
description: Institution with which the contributor is associated.
- value: citation status
description: Indicator of whether the contributor should be included in the citation.
- value: description
description: Biographical information about the contributor.
event:
- value: acquisition
description: The transferral of ownership of a resource to a repository.
- value: capture
description: A record of the resource in a fixed form at a specific time.
- value: collection
description: The addition of a resource to a set of other resources.
- value: copyright
description: The activity by which a resource may be considered subject to copyright law.
- value: copyright notice
description: An explicit statement that a resource is under copyright.
- value: creation
description: The coming into being of a resource.
- value: deaccession
description: The removal of a resource from a repository.
- value: degree conferral
description: The institutional approval of a thesis or other resource leading to an academic degree.
- value: deposit
description: The submission of a resource to a repository.
- value: development
description: The creation of a print from a photographic negative or other source medium.
- value: distribution
description: The delivery of the resource to an external audience.
- value: generation
description: The creation of a resource by an automatic or natural process.
- value: manufacture
description: The physical assembly of a resource, often in multiple copies, for publication or other distribution.
- value: modification
description: A change to an existing resource.
- value: performance
description: The enactment of an artistic or cultural work for an audience, such as a play.
- value: presentation
description: The discussion of an academic or intellectual work for an audience, such as a seminar.
- value: production
description: The physical assembly of a resource not considered published, such as page proofs for a book.
- value: provenance
description: The resource's origins and history.
- value: publication
description: The publishing or issuing of a resource.
- value: recording
description: The initial fixation to a medium of live audio and/or visual activity.
- value: release
description: Making a resource available to a broader audience.
- value: submission
description: The provision of a resource for review or evaluation.
- value: validity
description: When a resource takes effect, such as a revised train schedule.
- value: withdrawal
description: The removal of previous access to a resource, often due to its obsolescence.
event.date:
- value: accompanying letter
description: Used in Athanasius Kircher project.
status: deprecated
- value: acquisition
description: The transferral of ownership of a resource to a repository.
- value: capture
description: A record of the resource in a fixed form at a specific time.
- value: collection
description: The addition of a resource to a set of other resources.
- value: composition
description: Used in Athanasius Kircher project.
status: deprecated
- value: copy
description: Used in Athanasius Kircher project.
status: deprecated
- value: copyright
description: The activity by which a resource may be considered subject to copyright law.
- value: coverage
- value: creation
description: The coming into being of a resource.
- value: deaccession
description: The removal of a resource from a repository.
- value: degree conferral
description: The institutional approval of a thesis or other resource leading to an academic degree.
- value: deposit
description: The submission of a resource to a repository.
- value: developed
description: The creation of a print from a photographic negative or other source medium.
status: deprecated
use: development
- value: development
description: The creation of a print from a photographic negative or other source medium.
- value: distribution
description: The delivery of the resource to an external audience.
- value: generation
description: The creation of a resource by an automatic or natural process.
- value: Gregorian
status: deprecated
use: event.date.note.value with type "calendar"
- value: Hebrew
status: deprecated
use: event.date.note.value with type "calendar"
- value: Hijri calendar
status: deprecated
use: event.date.note.value with type "calendar"
- value: Islamic
status: deprecated
use: event.date.note.value with type "calendar"
- value: Julian
status: deprecated
use: event.date.note.value with type "calendar"
- value: letter
description: Used in Athanasius Kircher project.
status: deprecated
- value: letter referred to
description: Used in Athanasius Kircher project.
status: deprecated
- value: manufacture
description: The physical assembly of a resource, often in multiple copies, for publication or other distribution.
- value: manuscript
description: Used in Athanasius Kircher project.
status: deprecated
- value: manuscript referred to
description: Used in Athanasius Kircher project.
status: deprecated
- value: modification
description: A change to an existing resource.
- value: new document
description: Used in Athanasius Kircher project.
status: deprecated
- value: new style letter
description: Used in Athanasius Kircher project.
status: deprecated
- value: observation
description: Used in Athanasius Kircher project.
status: deprecated
- value: old style letter
description: Used in Athanasius Kircher project.
status: deprecated
- value: original sent
description: Used in Athanasius Kircher project.
status: deprecated
- value: performance
description: The enactment of an artistic or cultural work for an audience, such as a play.
- value: presentation
description: The discussion of an academic or intellectual work for an audience, such as a seminar.
- value: proclamation
description: Used in Athanasius Kircher project.
status: deprecated
- value: production
description: The physical assembly of a resource not considered published, such as page proofs for a book.
- value: publication
description: The publishing or issuing of a resource.
- value: quoted
description: Used in Athanasius Kircher project.
status: deprecated
- value: recording
description: The initial fixation to a medium of live audio and/or visual activity.
- value: release
description: Making a resource available to a broader audience.
- value: Revolutionary calendar
status: deprecated
use: event.date.note.value with type "calendar"
- value: submission
description: The provision of a resource for review or evaluation.
- value: validity
description: When a resource takes effect, such as a revised train schedule.
- value: withdrawal
description: The removal of previous access to a resource, often due to its obsolescence.
event.date.note:
- value: calendar
description: The calendar system used for a date.
event.date.structuredValue:
- value: start
description: The start date in a range.
- value: end
description: The end date in a range.
event.note:
- value: copyright statement
description: A formal declaration of copyright on a resource.
- value: edition
description: A published version of a resource issued at one time.
- value: frequency
description: How often a resource is issued, such as monthly.
- value: issuance
description: How the resource is issued, such as serially.
form:
- value: carrier
description: Format of the resource's storage medium.
- value: data format
description: The structure of a dataset.
- value: digital origin
description: The relationship of a digitized resource to a previous format.
- value: extent
description: The size or dimensions of the resource.
- value: form
description: A description of the materiality of the resource.
- value: genre
description: The intellectual category of a resource based on style, form, content, etc.
- value: map projection
description: The method used to represent the curvature of a planet on a flat plane.
- value: map scale
description: The size ratio of the map image to the depicted area.
- value: material
description: The physical components constituting the resource.
- value: media
description: The technology required to mediate interactions with a resource.
- value: media type
- value: reformatting quality
description: The use for which the reproduction quality of the resource was intended (e.g. access, preservation).
- value: resource type
description: The general format category of the resource.
- value: technique
description: The method used to create the resource.
- value: type
form.structuredValue:
- value: type
description: Used for H2 deposits.
- value: subtype
description: Used for H2 deposits.
geographic.form:
- value: data format
- value: media type
- value: type
geographic.subject:
- value: bounding box coordinates
description: A series of coordinates forming the boundaries of the depicted area.
- value: coverage
description: The name of the area the resource depicts.
- value: point coordinates
description: A pair of coordinates showing the latitude and longitude of the depicted area.
geographic.subject.structuredValue:
- value: east
description: A directional indicator for a point of a bounding box.
- value: latitude
description: The angular distance of a place north or south from the equator.
- value: longitude
description: The angular distance of a place east or west from the standard meridian.
- value: north
description: A directional indicator for a point of a bounding box.
- value: south
description: A directional indicator for a point of a bounding box.
- value: west
description: A directional indicator for a point of a bounding box.
identifier:
- value: accession
status: deprecated
use: accession number
- value: accession number
- value: alternate case number
- value: anchor
- value: Apis ID
code: apis
- value: ARK
code: ark
- value: arXiv
code: arxiv
- value: case identifier
- value: case number
- value: CCP
- value: CLC
- value: CSt
- value: CStRLIN
- value: CTC
- value: Data Provider Digital Object Identifier
- value: document number
- value: DOI
code: doi
- value: druid
- value: EUR-OP
- value: FOLIO
description: FOLIO HRID for the source record of the metadata.
- value: GTIN-14 ID
code: gtin-14
- value: Handle
code: hdl
- value: inventory number
- value: ISBN
code: isbn
- value: ISMN
code: ismn
- value: ISRC
code: isrc
- value: ISSN
code: issn
- value: ISSN-L
code: issn-l
- value: issue number
code: issue-number
- value: LCCN
code: lccn
- value: local
code: local
- value: Local ID
- value: matrix number
code: matrix-number
- value: music plate
code: music-plate
- value: music publisher
code: music-publisher
- value: OCLC
- value: OCoLC
- value: PMCID
- value: PMID
- value: record id
- value: ROR
code: ror
- value: Senate Number
- value: Series
- value: SICI
code: sici
- value: SIRSI
- value: Source ID
- value: sourceID
status: deprecated
use: Source ID
- value: stock number
code: stock-number
- value: SUL catalog key
- value: Swets (Netherlands) ID
code: swets
- value: UPC
code: upc
- value: URI
code: uri
- value: URN
code: urn
- value: videorecording identifier
code: videorecording-identifier
- value: 'West Mat #'
- value: Wikidata
code: wikidata
note:
- value: abstract
description: A short overview of a research article or other work.
- value: access
description: Information about gaining access to a resource.
- value: access note
status: deprecated
use: access
- value: access restriction
description: Information about restrictions on who may or how to access a resource.
- value: acquisition
description: The transfer of a resource to a repository.
- value: action
- value: additional physical form
description: Other formats of the resource.
- value: additions
description: Resources added after initial acquisition.
- value: admin
status: deprecated
use: administrative
- value: administrative
description: Administrative or internal use.
- value: affiliation
description: Institution with which a person or other entity is associated.
- value: arrangement
description: The organization of an archival or other collection.
- value: bibliographic
- value: bibliography
description: Other resources with additional information about the resource.
- value: binding
- value: biographical/historical
description: Background on a person, organization, or other entity strongly associated with the resource.
- value: biographical/historical note
status: deprecated
use: biographical/historical
- value: biography
description: Background on a person strongly associated with the resource.
- value: boat note
- value: citation/reference
description: Other resources that cite this resource.
- value: codicology
- value: collation
- value: colophon
- value: condition
description: Physical wear on an object.
- value: contact
description: Contact information for someone responsible for the resource.
- value: content
description: The information the resource contains.
- value: content note
status: deprecated
use: content
- value: content warning
description: Cautionary information about offensive or triggering resource content.
- value: contents
status: deprecated
use: content
- value: copyright
description: A creator's legal ownership of a resource's content.
- value: creation/production credits
description: Cast and crew associated with the production of a resource.
- value: date
description: Information about a date or dates associated with the resource.
- value: date/sequential designation
- value: decoNote
status: deprecated
use: decoration
- value: decoration
- value: description
description: Information describing the resource.
- value: digitization
description: The process of creating a digital representation of a physical object.
- value: dimensions
description: The size of an object in terms of area or volume.
- value: duration
description: The length of a time-based resource.
- value: email
description: An email address related to the resource.
- value: event
description: A time-bound occurrence associated with a resource.
- value: exhibitions
description: Public displays of the resource as part of an exhibit.
- value: explicit
- value: foliation
- value: funding
description: Financial support for producing, acquiring, or otherwise processing the resource.
- value: general
- value: genre type
- value: geography
- value: hand note
- value: handNote
status: deprecated
use: hand note
- value: handwritten
- value: host
- value: incipit
- value: instrumentation
description: Musical instruments involved in the performance of a resource.
- value: language
- value: layout
- value: local
description: A note with local application.
- value: location
- value: material
- value: medium of performance
- value: names
- value: numbering
- value: original location
- value: other
- value: other relation type
- value: ownership
- value: part
- value: performer
- value: performers
- value: preferred citation
description: The preferred form for citing a resource.
- value: provenance
description: The resource's origins and history.
- value: publications
description: Other published works related to the resource.
- value: qualifications
- value: quote
- value: reassembly
description: The return of an object to a whole after being separated into parts.
- value: reference
- value: references
- value: reformatting
- value: related publication
- value: reproduction
- value: research
- value: restriction
- value: restriction on access
status: deprecated
use: access restriction
- value: rubric
- value: scope and content
- value: secfol
status: deprecated
use: second folio
- value: second folio
- value: secondFolio
status: deprecated
use: second folio
- value: source characteristics
- value: source identifier
- value: statement of responsibility
description: The contributors to a work as transcribed from a title page.
- value: summary
- value: system details
- value: system requirements
- value: table of contents
- value: target audience
- value: technical note
description: Technological requirements for accessing or using the resource.
- value: thesis
- value: transcript
- value: translation
- value: unit
- value: update
- value: use and reproduction
- value: venue
description: The location of a public performance or other event.
- value: version
- value: version identification
- value: writing
note.groupedValue:
- value: caption
- value: date
- value: detail type
- value: extent unit
- value: list
- value: marker
- value: number
- value: title
- value: text
relatedResource:
- value: has original version
description: An initial form of the resource.
- value: has other format
description: A version of the resource in a different physical or digital format.
- value: has part
description: A constituent unit of the resource.
- value: has version
description: A version of the resource with different intellectual content.
- value: in series
description: The name of a series of publications to which the resource belongs.
- value: other relation type
description: Resource type not otherwise described.
- value: part of
description: A larger resource to which the resource belongs, such as a collection.
- value: preceded by
description: A predecessor to the resource, such as a preceding journal title.
- value: referenced by
description: Other resources that cite the resource, such as a catalog.
- value: references
description: A resource which the resource references or cites.
- value: related to
description: A generically related resource.
- value: reviewed by
description: A review of the resource.
- value: succeeded by
description: A successor to the resource, such as a subsequent journal title.
subject:
- value: classification
description: A coded reference to the main subjects of the resource according to a larger system.
- value: conference
description: An event focusing on a particular topic or discipline.
- value: display
description: Preferred form of the value for display.
- value: event
description: A time-bound occurrence.
- value: family
description: A group of individuals related by blood or personal alliance.
- value: genre
description: The intellectual category of a resource based on style, form, content, etc.
- value: map coordinates
description: Bounding box or point coordinates describing the area represented by a map or other geographic resource.
- value: name
description: The name of an entity whose type is not known.
- value: occupation
description: A profession or job category associated with the content of a resource.
- value: organization
description: An institution or other corporate or collective body.
- value: person
description: An individual identity.
- value: place
description: A geographic location associated with the content of a resource.
- value: point coordinates
description: The latitude and longitude of a place associated with the content of a resource.
- value: time
description: The temporal period associated with the content of a resource.
- value: title
description: A work that is the subject of the resource.
- value: topic
description: Terms representing the information contained in or other relevant attributes of a resource.
subject.note:
- value: affiliation
description: Institution with which the contributor is associated.
- value: description
description: Biographical information about the contributor.
- value: role
description: The relation of the subject entity to the resource.
subject.structuredValue:
- value: activity dates
description: The date or dates when someone was producing work.
- value: area
description: A non-jurisdictional geographic entity.
- value: city
description: An inhabited place incorporated as a city or equivalent.
- value: city section
description: A smaller unit within a populated place, such as a neighborhood.
- value: conference
description: An event focusing on a particular topic or discipline.
- value: continent
description: Large land mass or portion of land mass considered to be a continent.
- value: country
description: A political entity considered to be a country.
- value: county
description: A political division of a state or the largest local administrative unit.
- value: display
description: Preferred form of the value for display.
- value: east
description: A directional indicator for a point of a bounding box.
- value: end
description: The end date in a range.
- value: event
description: A time-bound occurrence.
- value: extraterrestrial area
description: An entity, space, or feature not on Earth.
- value: family
description: A group of individuals related by blood or personal alliance.
- value: forename
description: First or given name or names.
- value: genre
description: The intellectual category of a resource based on style, form, content, etc.
- value: island
description: A tract of land surrounded by water but not itself a separate continent or country.
- value: latitude
description: The angular distance of a place north or south from the equator.
- value: life dates
description: Birth and death dates, or dates when an entity was in existence.
- value: longitude
description: The angular distance of a place east or west from the standard meridian.
- value: main title
description: Title provided alongside additional information.
- value: name
description: Name provided alongside additional information.
- value: nonsorting characters
description: A string at the beginning of the title to be disregarded when sorting.
- value: north
description: A directional indicator for a point of a bounding box.
- value: occupation
description: A profession or job category associated with the content of a resource.
- value: ordinal
description: Indicator that the name is one in a series (e.g. Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King, Jr.).
- value: organization
description: An institution or other corporate or collective body.
- value: part name
description: The distinct name of a resource as part of a series or multivolume set.
- value: part number
description: The distinct number of a resource as part of a series or multivolume set.
- value: person
description: An individual identity.
- value: place
description: A geographic location associated with the content of a resource.
- value: point coordinates
description: The latitude and longitude of a place associated with the content of a resource.
- value: region
description: An area that incorporates more than one first-order jurisdiction.
- value: south
description: A directional indicator for a point of a bounding box.
- value: start
description: The start date in a range.
- value: state
description: A first-order political jurisdiction under country, including provinces, cantons, etc.
- value: subtitle
description: The secondary part of a title.
- value: surname
description: Last or family name or names.
- value: term of address
description: Title or other signifier associated with name.
- value: territory
description: A geographical area belonging to or under the jurisdiction of a governmental authority.
- value: time
description: The temporal period associated with the content of a resource.
- value: title
description: A work that is the subject of the resource.
- value: topic
description: Terms representing the information contained in or other relevant attributes of a resource.
- value: west
description: A directional indicator for a point of a bounding box.
subject.structuredValue.note:
- value: affiliation
description: Institution with which the contributor is associated.
- value: description
description: Biographical information about the contributor.
- value: role
description: The relation of the subject entity to the resource.
subject.groupedValue:
- value: uniform
description: Form of title in Library of Congress title authority file.
title:
- value: abbreviated
description: Abbreviated form of title for indexing or identification.
- value: alternative
description: Variant title.
- value: parallel
description: Title transcribed from the resource in multiple languages or scripts.
- value: supplied
description: Title provided by metadata creator rather than transcribed from the resource.
- value: translated
description: Title translated into another language.
- value: transliterated
description: Title transliterated from non-Latin script to Latin script.
- value: uniform
description: Form of title in Library of Congress title authority.
title.note:
- value: associated name
description: A name linked to the title, such as for a name-title heading.
- value: nonsorting character count
description: The number of characters at the beginning of the string to be disregarded when sorting.
title.structuredValue:
- value: main title
description: The primary part of a multipart title.
- value: nonsorting characters
description: A string at the beginning of the title to be disregarded when sorting.
- value: part name
description: The distinct name of a resource as part of a series or multivolume set.
- value: part number
description: The distinct number of a resource as part of a series or multivolume set.
- value: subtitle
description: The secondary part of a title.