article
A published written work — essay, news article, blog post, paper, newsletter. NOT necessarily a social post. “As We May Think” (1945) is an article with no engagement metrics. A blog post shared on HN is both an article AND a post — the skill tags it with both shapes.
article and post are siblings, not parent-child. When something is both (a modern blog post with comments), it gets both tags.
| Metadata | Value |
|---|---|
| Plural | articles |
| Subtitle field | author |
Fields
Section titled “Fields”| Field | Type |
|---|---|
wordCount | integer |
readingTime | integer |
section | string |
language | string |
Relations
Section titled “Relations”| Relation | Target |
|---|---|
publisher | organization |
publishedIn | website |
Prior art
Section titled “Prior art”External standards this shape draws from or aligns with. See Shape design principles for how prior art informs shape design.
- schema.org/Article — Our wordCount = wordCount; section = articleSection; language = inLanguage; publisher matches; publishedIn(website) ≈ isPartOf/publisher. readingTime has no direct property (often timeRequired in ISO 8601 duration).
- JATS (NISO Z39.96, Journal Article Tag Suite) — Scholarly-article XML standard. Our section ≈
/ ; language ≈ @xml:lang; publisher ≈ . Heavier than needed for non-scholarly content. - OpenGraph article:* properties — Web-article metadata in the wild. Our section ≈ article:section; publisher ≈ article:publisher; language ≈ og:locale. No wordCount/readingTime in OG.