Indexes and categories for works
Ways of categorizing & organizing works
- Fictionality: fiction/nonfiction/hybrids (e.g., dramatization)
- Mode: Poetry, prose
- School: e.g., New Wave, Golden Age, Cyberpunk
- Time: year, era
- Language of publication
- Audience: YA, kids
- Amateur, fan, pro
- public domain, copyrighted, trademarked, creative commons/generously licensed
- Recognition: Awards won/nominated, best-selling, influence
- Genre (fantasy, sf)
- Nonfiction genre: essay, criticism, review of work, speech, etc.
- Plot-genre (mystery, romance, adventure)
- Sub-genre
- Themes
- Singularity/collectivity: singular work, collective work (collection or anthology), serial (series of individual works, series of interconnected works, series of one story)
- Continuity/universe: same continuity, re-envisioned versions of it, alternate versions of it (as in fanfic, Battlestar Galactica 2004)
- medium or format (text, graphics, sound, multimedia, interactive program, film/video, animated film/video, text/images (comic books, graphic novels, webcomics), dramatic work (for actors), theatrical work (live performance), performance arts, musical, sculptural, etc.
- aspects of fictional continuities: fictional characters, technologies, things, concepts, places, times, events ...