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 ...