Collection: Collection Type
This property is: Optional.
Definition
The type of the collection.
Examples
| Value | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Catalogue | Examples of Catalogues include:
These collections are catalogues as they are a collection of individual records describing the items, and the intellectual content of those items, of a second collection. |
| Catalogue | The Archives Hub collection is both a Catalogue and a Hierarchic Finding Aid. It is a Catalogue because it is a collection of individual records describing the items, and the intellectual content of those items, of a second collection. It is also a Hierarchic Finding Aid as it is describing individual items that are in a hierarchy (it is not just a long list of items). |
| HierarchicFindingAid | |
| Index | An example of an Index is the Google collection. Google indexes the words in a document regardless of their context and without trying to identify the discrete elements of intellectual content contained therein. |
Guidelines
This property allows for the categorisation of collections which are themselves collection descriptions (collections of metadata describing another collection).
The terms used for this property are defined by the IESR Collection Type List:
- If the collection is a collection description then enter one or more of the terms;
- If the collection is not a collection description then do not enter any of the terms.
Occurrence
Repeatable: there may be multiple values for this property. Choose zero, one, or more values using the check boxes.