The KCHA Collection resources have been categorized into one of the listed formats according to their content formats. The following guideline has been used:
Material Format |
Description (in the Context of the Korean Canadian Heritage Archives Collection) |
Artifact |
• Refers to a man-made, physical object. • Includes paintings and handcrafts. |
Book |
• Refers to a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. |
Cartographic Material |
• Refers to any map-related materials. • Includes maps, atlases, charts, globes, and geographic information systems. |
Correspondence |
• Refers to letters delivered to a specific person or a group. • Includes printed letters, email, postcards, and telegrams. |
Ephemera |
• Refers to culturally, historically, and/or politically significant non-commercial publications primarily focused on specific events or topics. • Includes pamphlets, photographic documents, calendars, posters, catalogues, forms, and tickets. |
Grey Literature |
• Refers to publications with limited distribution and with subject matter of a professional, often academic, nature. • Includes teaching materials, reports, and conference proceedings. |
Manuscript |
• Refers to a hand-written or unpublished document. • Includes hand-written letters, diaries, ledgers, minutes, speeches, marked or corrected galley or page proofs, manuscript books, and legal papers. |
Miscellaneous Documents |
• Refers to any materials, not falling into any other formats, from uncertain sources. |
Multimedia |
• Refers to works that combine sound, images, and text. • Includes CDs, DVDs, cassette tapes and VHS cassettes. |
News Clipping |
• Refers to an article or photograph cut from a newspaper or magazine. |
Personal Documents |
• Refers to any personal document issued/created about/by/to a specific person or a group. • Includes certificates, CVs/resumes, government-issued documents, organization records and personal identifications. |
Serial |
• Refers to a continuing publication issued in installments, typically numbered and dated. • Includes magazines, newsletters and newspapers. |
Thesis/ |
• Refers to a long essay on a particular subject, especially one written for a university degree or diploma. • Includes theses, dissertations, and journal articles. |