This is essentially the same thing as a ComplexType type, except that it should not be a valid NameTitle type or HierarchicalGeographic type.
Complex Subject Type
Province Type
Continent Type
1
A ComplexType is the aggregation of two or more SingleType types.
Complex Type
Title Element
City Type
1
Element
Conference Name Type
Variant
A Variant is essentially an alternative Authority record for a fully-established Authority. In MARC Authority format, a
Variant comes from the 4xx field.
Title Type
Temporal Authority
To be used to describe a time-based record.
Region Type
Affiliation
This may become a subclass of http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#VCard.
Geographic Element
Island Type
Topic Type
Country Type
City Section Type
Name Element
Used to describe a vocabulary or authority scheme.
MADS Scheme
Occupation Type
Family Name Type
To be used to describe a Geographic record, especially when a more precise geographic determination (City, Country,
Region, etc.) cannot be made.
Geographic Authority
A SimpleType is not made of multiple components (and, therefore, will not have a mads:componentList).
Simple Type
Territory Type
Area Type
Corporate Name Type
Topic Element
Name/Title Type
A NameTitle type is the aggregation of a Name type and a Title type where the Name type precedes the Title type. This is
unenforceable and is followed by convention.
State Type
County Type
To be used for a Name type, especially where a more precise Name type (ConferenceName, FamilyName, etc.) cannot be
identified.
Name Type
Extraterrestial Area Type
Authority
Genre/Form Element
A HierarchicalGeographic type is the aggregation of two or more Geographic types.
Hierarchical Geographic Type
Affiliation address
Personal Name Type
Genre/Form Type
To be used to describe a Genre/Form record.
MADS Collections are composed of Authority types or other MADS Collections.
has MADSCollection Member
Authorities are components of MADS Schemes.
MADS Schemes are composed of Authorities.
Authority types can be members of MADS Collections. MADS Collections can be members of other MADS Collections.
Is Member Of MADSCollection
This could have no domain, and therefore could be applied to Variants also.
Use for terms that are searchable, but not necessarily for display.
Has Hidden Variant
hasLaterEstablishedForm has no domain restriction for the same reasons given in the comment associated with the
hasEarlierEstablishedForm property.
This is Related type='later' in MADS XML.
Unless the relationship can be more specifically identified, use 'hasRelatedAuthority.'
Has Related Authority
hasEarlierEstablishedForm has no range restriction. This was necessary to accomodate still-valid Authority types as an
earlier established form. A country that goes through a name/government change would be an example of this.
This is Related type='earlier' in MADS XML.
Change Note
A note detailing a modification to an Authority or Variant.
elementList is domain-less for the time being.
This has been restricted to only NameAuthority records.
This is Related type='equivalent' in MADS XML.
Unless the variant type can be more specifically identified, use 'hasVariant.'
Authoritative Label
To be used for the authoritative form of the term or heading, per language.
The city component of an address.
City
Citation Source
Might be a lexical description or might point to a resource.
Citation Status
Should use a standard term - such as 'found' or 'not found' - to indicate whether the source for the Authority or Variant has
been confirmed.
An explanation of the meaning of an Authority or Variant term.
Definition Note
Citation Note
A note used anything remarkable about the Source data for the Authority or Variant record.
Classification
This may be a string or an URI to a first class resource.
Administrative Metadata
This relates an Authority or Variant to its administrative metadata, which is, minimimally, a Class defined outside of the
MADS/RDF namespace. The RecordInfo Class from the RecordInfo ontology is recommended.