To specify the details of documents that could get stored in a document management system like IDM . This is the primary identifier of the document. Any other alternate IDs for the document Date time on which the document is created (in IDM) Person who created the document Document meta data details, like attributes, resources etc that would depend on a document type. Contains the details about the binary meta data object. The main resource would not have any 'type' associated; only other resources will have types. (example thumbnail preview etc) Identifier for the set of authorizations for this document type (groups, users etc) Indicates the document type identifier - this is a user-definable identifier for the document User-defined attributes that are defined for a specific document type; for example document's functional status could be a user defined attribute; and then it would have name as "DocumentStatus" and Values as approved, pending, rejected. Indicates whether the current attribute is used as a representative attribute Data type for the attribute Value of the attribute Used when attribute type is an array type To define the internal ID of the attribute within IDM To define the type of resource - the main document resource will not have any type associated with it