Text: A resource consisting primarily of words for reading.
Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.

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Image: A visual representation other than text.
Examples include images and photographs of physical objects, paintings, prints, drawings, other images and graphics, animations and moving pictures, film, diagrams, maps, musical notation. Note that Image may include both electronic and physical representations.

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Sound: A resource primarily intended to be heard.
Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds.

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Moving image: A series of visual representations imparting an impression of motion when shown in succession.
Examples include animations, movies, television programs, videos, zoetropes, or visual output from a simulation. Instances of the type Moving Image must also be describable as instances of the broader type Image.

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