Re: Short Fiction

On May 13, 2016 9:03 AM, "Anke Wehner" <anke.wehner@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been trying to find an answer to this on and off for months: How are
people supposed to mark up short stories or poems? They are not books or
chapters. Are they Articles as far as schema.org is concerned? Or is there
really nothing more specific than CreativeWork for short works of fiction?

What do are the properties/ attributes of a short story that aren't
available on plain CreativeWork?

The fact that a creative work has the form of a short story can be
indicated using the "genre" property.

Note that The Library of Congress  genre/form term, "Short stories"
*cannot* be used here, as that is restricted to collections of two or more
short stories. "Short story" cannot be used as a genre/form term.

The Getty AAT term "short stories" is not so restricted; the IRI for this
is http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202607 .

See  http://schema.org/genre for an example of the use of the AAT.

If the distinction between form and genre seems confused, it's because
--History

Simon

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