Written Work

This is a fairly generic or abstract type that contains information common to all or most types of written works, including (but not limited to) books, poems, stories, scholarly articles, book reviews, and essays. It is a "supporting type", meaning that, although the properties will be displayed, the name of the type will not be displayed on topics that use this type.

These are the properties of written work:

Authors/contributors: This can be the author, editor, poet, playwright, reviewer, or other type of writer. Only the primary contributors should be listed here; people who have only contributed introductions, or works collected in an anthology, for example, should not be listed. Multi-author works should display the authors in the order in which they are credited in the text; this is especially important for scholarly publications.

Date written: This should be the date the work was completed, if known. This is especially useful for older texts where the publication dates are not known or relevant and for works that were published substantially after their completion.
Copyright date: The date or dates that this work was copyrighted, if any
Date of first publication: The first time the work was published in any form, if known

Subjects: The subjects that this work is about; this can be a highly structured value, such as those used by the Library of Congress, or can be a simpler value.
Original language: The language(s) that the text was first composed in.
Online versions: This provides a link to any online versions of the text