Information categories
Categories of Information
Categories may be based on:
- Order produced
- primary (first-hand account)
- secondary (interpretation of first-hand)
- tertiary (summarised, abstracted or indexed e.g., database, catalogue, guide book)
- Intended audience
- scholarly
- reference
- popular
- trade
- Format
- digital
- audiovisual
- multimedia
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