A manually created catalogue of Internet resources
Examples: Yahoo
collection; catalogue; internet
A manually created catalogue of Internet resources in a particular subject area.
A Subject Based Information Gateway (SBIG) or subject service.
Examples: SOSIG, EEVL, ADAM, OMNI
collection; catalogue; internet; subject
A library catalogue (OPAC)
Examples: the Univesity of Bath OPAC, COPAC
collection; catalogue; library
A museum catalogue
collection; catalogue; museum
An archival finding aid
collection; catalogue; archive
An automatically (robot) generated index of Internet resources
A Web Index or a Web search engine
Examples: Alta Vista, Lycos, Google
collection; index; internet
A collection of items that are primarily words for reading
Books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre "text".
Examples: Mailbase, Internet Library of Early Journals
collection; text
A collection of items that are primarily symbolic visual representations other than text
Images and photographs of physical objects, paintings, prints, drawings, other images and graphics, animations and moving pictures, film, diagrams, maps, musical notation. Note that "image" may include both electronic and physical representations.
collection; image
A collection of items that are primarily audio
Music, speech, recorded sounds.
Examples: Voices from the Dust Bowl
collection; sound
A collection of dataset items
Items that primarily consist of structured information encoded in lists, tables, databases, etc., which will normally be in a format available for direct machine processing. Spreadsheets, databases, GIS data, midi data. Note that collections of items that are primarily unstructured numbers and words will normally be considered to be type "Collection.Text".
Examples: Digimap
collection; dataset
A software repository.
Examples: HENSA, SunSite
collection; software
A collection of resources which require interaction from the user to be understood, executed, or experienced
Forms on web pages, applets, multimedia learning objects, chat services, virtual reality.
collection; interactive
A collection of non-persistent, time-based occurences
Examples: The Follett Lecture Series
collection; event
A collection of three dimensional objects or substances which are not primarily text or image or one of the other types listed here
People, computers, sculptures or wheat (!) . Note that collections of digital representations of, or surrogates for, these things should use "Collection.Image", "Collection.Text" or one of the other collection types listed here.
collection; physical object
A library collection (books, journals, etc.)
collection; library
A library 'special collection'
A collection of books connected with local history, celebrities, industries, etc., or on a certain subject or period, or gathered for some particular reason, in a library which is general in character.
Examples: The Pitman Collection
collection; library; special
A library 'subject collection'
  1. A complete library: a special library is an example of a subject collection which is a complete library.
  2. A subject collection within a library: a collection of material on a particular subject kept together within a larger general collection, and usually with a distinct name.
  3. A dispersed collection within a library: a collection of material on a single subject, but not kept together and not referred to by a specific name.
collection; library; subject
A library 'form collection'
A collection of library materials shelved by form.
collection; library; form
A library 'user collection'
A collection arranged specifically for a particular group of users.
collection; library; user
A library 'database collection'
A collection of online databases or networked CD-ROMs. These collections will normally be linked by subject, as well as by form.
collection; library; database
A museum collection (artefacts, etc.)
collection; museum
An archive
An archive is a whole which documents the life and work of an institution or individual, which has been retained in its original working order and is of known provenance.
Examples: National Fairground Archive
collection; archive
A digital archive
A collection of digital objects stored for preservation purposes (also called a repository).
Examples: The Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive
collection; digital archive