NLNZ Vocabulary Encoding Schemes
NLNZ Vocabulary Encoding Schemes
- Carrier type
- Category of work
- Category of work: juvenile
- Colour content
- Content type
- Encoding format
- Extent of manifestation
- Illustrative content
- Intended audience of manifestation
- Intended audience for Schools Lending Collection and Print Disabilities Collection resources
- Production method
- Restriction on access to item
- Resolution
If you need a term that does not appear in the following VESs, talk to a cataloguing team leader about establishing a term.
If a term is added to any VES that has a controlled vocabulary in Alma, the controlled vocabulary must also be updated.
Carrier type
- other
use this term for USB flash drives
Note: included in RDA Carrier Type controlled vocabulary in Alma.
Category of work: general
- Comic strip
- Novel
- Plays
- Poems
- Series
- Short stories
- Website
Category of work: juvenile
- Novel for children
- Novel for young adults
- Picture story book for children
- Play for children
- Play for young adults
- Poetry for children
- Poetry for young adults
- Reader for children
- Short stories for children
- Short stories for young adults
- Song lyrics in picture book format
- Story for children
Colour content
- Colour
- Some colour
Content type
- other
- unspecified
These appear in the RDA Toolkit under unstructured description but National Library of New Zealand want to use them as structured terms. When considering applying them, consideration should be given as to whether there is a more specific term that should be added to the NLNZ VES.
Note: included in RDA Content Type controlled vocabulary in Alma.
Encoding format
Terms are based on those previously available in the RDA Toolkit, those listed in the NDHA enhancements requirements for Alma Create Rep Plugin [NLNZ internal document], and most commonly used terms provided by the publisher or present as the file extension.
Note: this is a controlled vocabulary in Alma (347B - encoding format).
- Access
- AIFF
- ArcInfo
- ASCII
- AVI
- BIL
- Blu-ray
- BMP
- BSQ
- CAD
- CD audio
- CSV
- DAISY
- DEM
- DVD audio
- DVD video
- E00
- EPUB
- Excel
- FLAC
- Flash Video
- GIF
- HD-DVD
- HTML
- iBOOKS
- JPEG
- JPEG2000
- Kindle
- Lotus
- M4A
- M4V
- Megadots
- MID/MIF
- MOBI
- MP3
- MPEG
- MPEG-4
- MS Powerpoint
- MS Publisher
- MS Word
- MXF
- OGG
- Open Document
- PNG
- QuickTime
- RealAudio
- RealVideo
- RTF
- SACD
- SGML
- SVCD
- TeX
- TIFF
- VCD
- VOB
- Warc
- WAV
- WebM
- Windows Media
- WMA
- Word Perfect
- XHTML
- XML
Extent of manifestation
These two VES are a compilation and reorganisation of the RDA Carrier Type vocabulary encoding scheme, the RDA Carrier Extent Unit vocabulary encoding scheme, the RDA Format of Notated Music vocabulary encoding scheme and the previous NLNZ VES: Extent of manifestation for Original RDA.
Extent of manifestation: subunit
- column
- double frame
use for filmstrips and filmslips; stereographs, as required - frame
use for filmstrips and filmslips; stereographs, as required - leaf
- leaf of plates
- overlay
use for overhead transparencies, as required - page
- page of plates
Extent of manifestation: unit
- activity card
- aperture card
- audio belt
- audio cartridge
- audio cylinder
- audio disc
use for all audio disc formats except CDs - audio roll
- audio wire reel
- audiocassette
- audiotape reel
- Blu-ray disc
use in preference to videodisc - card
- case
- CD
use for compact discs - CD-ROM
diachronic works: use computer disc
static works: use CD-ROM - chart
- choir book
use only for notated music - chorus score
use only for notated music - coin
- collage
- computer card
- computer chip cartridge
- computer disc
diachronic works: use instead of CD-ROM or DVD-ROM
static works: use CD-ROM or DVD-ROM where format is known - computer disc cartridge
- computer tape cartridge
- computer tape cassette
- computer tape reel
- condensed score
use only for notated music. Use for hymn scores - diorama
- DVD
use in preference to videodisc - DVD-ROM
diachronic works: use computer disc
static works: use DVD-ROM - exhibit
- film cartridge
- film cassette
- film reel
- film roll
- filmslip
- filmstrip
- filmstrip cartridge
- flash card
- flipchart
- folded sheet
- game
- globe
- icon
- jigsaw puzzle
- medal
- microfiche
- microfiche cassette
- microfilm cartridge
- microfilm cassette
- microfilm roll
- microfilm slip
- microopaque
- microscope slide
- mock-up
- model
- object
- online resource
- overhead transparency
- overlay
use only for cartographic resources - painting
- part
use only for notated music - photograph
- piano conductor part
use only for notated music - piano roll
- piano score
use only for notated music - picture
- portfolio
- postcard
- poster
- radiograph
- roll
- score
use only for notated music. Use for online study scores - do not differentiate between 'study' and 'normal' online scores due to differing definitions and the ability to manipulate digital files - sculpture
- sheet
- slide
- sound-track reel
- specimen
- stereograph card
- stereograph disc
- study print
- study score
use only for notated music. Do not use for online study scores, see score - table book
use only for notated music - toy
- USB flash drive
- video cartridge
- videocassette
- videodisc
only use if DVD or Blu-Ray are not applicable - videotape reel
- violin conductor part
use only for notated music - vocal score
use only for notated music - volume
- wall chart
- web site
Illustrative content
- illustration
- illustrations
Intended audience of manifestation
- enlarged book for classroom use
Intended audience for Schools Lending Collection and Print Disabilities Collection resources
Note: this is a controlled vocabulary in Alma (Suggested level 921)
- Intermediate
- Junior
- Junior secondary
- Preschool
- Primary
- Secondary
- Senior secondary
Production method
- Produced as a CD-R
- Produced as a DVD-R
Restriction on access to item
Digital resources:
- Open Access
- Limited On Site Access
Resolution
Maps part of the NZMS digitisation project:
- Maps scanned at resolution of 600 ppi