Technical Metadata

Name

system

Label

System

Schema

RULIB

Definition

Describes media type contained within a file.

Usage Note

This should not be confused with codec, or which container types can accommodate multiple varieties.

Controlled Vocabulary

For Item Type "Text": text (ascii); western character set; MRC-8; Unicode; UCS-4; UTF-8; Other; Unknown
For Item Types "Still Image", "Physical Object": TIFF; JPEG; JPEG2000; DJVU; Other; Unknown
For Item Type "Moving Image": Flash Video; MS Video; QuickTime; RealMedia; WindowsMedia; Markov; other
For Item Type "Sound": ATRAC; MSAudio; RealMedia; WindowsMedia; WindowsMediaAudio; QuickTime; Ogg; Other; Unknown