document

A document — any human-readable text content with structure and authorship. Base type for reports, manuscripts, briefs, whitepapers, analyses. article, note, and webpage are siblings (not children) for now; they may gain also: [document] in a future migration once the shape stabilizes.

Metadata	Value
Plural	`documents`
Subtitle field	`author`
Also	`file`

Fields

Field	Type
`contentType`	`string`
`language`	`string`
`wordCount`	`integer`
`abstract`	`text`
`tableOfContents`	`text`

Relations

Relation	Target
`author`	`actor`
`references`	`document[]`
`citedBy`	`document[]`

Inherited

From file:

Field	Type
`encoding`	`string`
`filename`	`string`
`format`	`string`
`kind`	`string`
`lineCount`	`integer`
`mimeType`	`string`
`path`	`string`
`sha`	`string`
`size`	`integer`

Relation	Target
`attachedTo`	`message`
`repository`	`repository`

Prior art

External standards this shape draws from or aligns with. See Shape design principles for how prior art informs shape design.

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative — Our contentType ≈ dc:format; language = dc:language; author = dc:creator; references/citedBy ≈ dc:relation.
schema.org/DigitalDocument — Our abstract ≈ abstract; tableOfContents = hasPart or accessModeSufficient; wordCount = wordCount.
W3C Web Annotation Data Model — Our references[]/citedBy[] are annotation target/body relationships between documents.