Value | Definition | Standard |
|---|
Artifacts | Object, typically an item of cultural or historical interest. | Local |
Audio | Used when musical or nonmusical sound recordings occurs in a resource. | LCSH MODS guidelines (type of resource) |
Computer Disks, Software | Used for any electronic resource without a significant aspect that indicates one of the other Instance type categories. It includes: software, numeric data, computer-oriented multimedia, and online systems and services. | LCSH MODS guidelines (type of resource) |
Graphic Materials | Used for any two-dimensional pictorial representation, such as a poster, drawing, painting, etc.
Does not include photographs. | MARC 21 (Category of material) |
Cartographic Materials | Any materials representing, in whole or part, the earth or any celestial body at any scale. | AAT and LCSH |
Microform | Microform is a generic term for any medium, transparent or opaque, bearing microimages. A microimage is a unit (e.g., a page) of textual, graphic, or computer-generated material that is contained on aperture cards, microfiche, microfilm, micro-opaques, or other microformats and that is too small to be read without magnification. Microforms may be reproductions of existing textual or graphic materials or they may be original publications | MARC 21 (Category of material) |
Mixed Materials | Indicates that there are significant materials in two or more material types such as text, photographs, and sound recordings. | LCSH MODS guidelines (type of resource) |
Moving Images | Includes motion pictures and video recordings, as well as television programs, digital video, and animated computer graphics. 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". | LCSH MODS guidelines (type of resource) |
Photographic Materials | Used for still photographic images including photomechanical prints, negatives, slides, and digital photographs. | LCSH MODS guidelines (type of resource) |
Textual Materials | Resources that are basically textual in nature. | LCSH MODS guidelines (type of resource) |