---
id: "dc_type"
kind: "datatype"
status: "stable"
is_pii: false
categories: ["dublincore"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 60
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/dc_type"
---

# Type (Dublin Core) (`dc_type`)

Dublin Core element 'type': the nature or genre of the resource, preferably a term from the DCMI Type Vocabulary such as Dataset, Text or Image.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Dublin Core (dublincore)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Examples

- `Dataset` — DCMI Type Vocabulary term
- `Image` — DCMI Type Vocabulary term

## Metacrafter rules

1 rules: 1 match the field name, 0 match values.

- `dctypefield` (field, `common/dublincore.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Sources

- dublincore: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/type>

## Quality

Score 60/100. Missing: regexp, negative example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/dc_type.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/dublincore/dc_type.yaml>