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