The Dublin Core element used to designate the nature or genre of the content of the resource. Type includes terms describing general categories, functions, genres, or aggregation levels for content. Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary See also section 4 of the Dublin Core Users Guide

a category for a listing

a category into which typically more than one example will fall

a sub-Genre, such as Humor, Epic, Heroic, etc

Meal Rate category identifies "to whom" this meal is served--Faculty, Patron, Student, Visitor

Type The Dublin Core element used to designate the nature or genre of the content of the resource. Type includes terms describing general categories, functions, genres, or aggregation levels for content. Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary Source: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) – Glossary

Identifies a Type of team as being in one of the following three groups/categories - (Rec = Full Field Recreational, Mod = Any Small Sided Team, Comp = Competitive)