This is a union type used in Stencila Schema for authorship values.

It exists to provide a readable alias for the set of node types that can act as an author in Stencila Schema, instead of repeating or generating the much longer union name PersonOrOrganizationOrSoftwareApplicationOrAuthorRole.

See properties such as CreativeWork.authors and CreativeWork.contributors for common uses of this union.

Analogues

The following external types, elements, or nodes are similar to a Author:

schema.org author range: Close analogue for the set of entities that may fill the schema.org author property, though Stencila extends this with SoftwareApplication and AuthorRole in one reusable union.

Members

The Author type has these members:

Person

Organization

SoftwareApplication

AuthorRole

Bindings

The Author type is represented in:

JSON-LD

JSON Schema

Python type Author

Rust type Author

TypeScript type Author

This documentation was generated from Author.yaml by docs_types.rs.