---
id: "abstract"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["texts", "publishing"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 50
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/abstract"
---

# Abstract (summary) (`abstract`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Short summary of an article, paper, thesis, report or book, placed before the text or stored with its metadata, so that a reader can decide whether to read the whole work. Field names are abstract, summary and annotation; in Russian data аннотация and реферат. The Dublin Core term is dcabstract.

- Parent datatype: `description`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Texts and  articles (texts), Publishing and print (publishing)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)

## Mappings

- schema_org: `abstract`

## Translations

- ru: Аннотация (реферат): Краткое изложение статьи, работы, отчёта или книги, которое помещают перед текстом или хранят в его метаданных.

## Sources

- schema.org: <https://schema.org/abstract>
- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_(summary)>

## Quality

Score 50/100. Missing: regexp, examples, negative example, detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/abstract.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/texts/abstract.yaml>