Physical Medium

Physical Medium

Definition

A physical material or carrier. Examples include paper, canvas, or DVD.

Required?

No

Repeatable?

No


Guidelines #

Use this property to describe the medium of the original physical resource from which the digital resource was derived, if applicable.

  • NOT to be used to describe the file format of a digitized or born-digital resource.
    • If a resource is born-digital, leave this property blank.

Examples #

  • silver gelatin print
  • microfiche
  • tempera on canvas