The following changes in metadata categories were implemented in the IMDI 3.0 standard:
| IMDI 2.0 (and earlier) Standard | IMDI 3.0 Standard |
|---|---|
| Collector | this screen is now subsumed under Actor, with being one possible value for the field Role (see Section 2.4.1.1). |
Content . Genre . Interactional Content . Genre . Discursive Content . Genre . Performance | the three subtypes of genre are replaced by one Genre and one Subgenre, whereby the possible values of Subgenre are dependent on the value of Genre (see Section 2.3.1). |
| Language | an additional panel allows you to specify resource references (see Section 2.3.3.1). |
| Participant | this screen is replaced by Actor; Actor now includes Contact information; an additional panel allows you to specify resource references (see Section 2.4.1.3) |
| AnotationUnit | this screen is replaced by Written Resource (see Section 2.5.3) |
| Resources | a Keys schema is added; Media File and Written Resource are assigned Resource Ids; an additional panel under Source allows you to specify resource references (see Section 2.5) |
| Lexicon Resource | this screen is added to create lexicon resource bundles (see Chapter 3). |