| Property | On Types | description |
|---|---|---|
| accountablePerson | Specifies the Person that is legally accountable for the CreativeWork. | |
| acquiredFrom | The organization or person from which the product was acquired. | |
| actor | An actor, e.g. in TV, radio, movie, video games etc., or in an event. Actors can be associated with individual items or with a series, episode, clip. | |
| actors | An actor, e.g. in TV, radio, movie, video games etc. Actors can be associated with individual items or with a series, episode, clip. | |
| agent | The direct performer or driver of the action (animate or inanimate). E.g. John wrote a book. | |
| alumni | Alumni of an organization. | |
| artist | The primary artist for a work | |
| athlete | A person that acts as performing member of a sports team; a player as opposed to a coach. | |
| attendee | A person or organization attending the event. | |
| attendees | A person attending the event. | |
| author | The author of this content or rating. Please note that author is special in that HTML 5 provides a special mechanism for indicating authorship via the rel tag. That is equivalent to this and may be used interchangeably. | |
| awayTeam | The away team in a sports event. | |
| bccRecipient | A sub property of recipient. The recipient blind copied on a message. | |
| bookingAgent | 'bookingAgent' is an out-dated term indicating a 'broker' that serves as a booking agent. | |
| borrower | A sub property of participant. The person that borrows the object being lent. | |
| broker | An entity that arranges for an exchange between a buyer and a seller. In most cases a broker never acquires or releases ownership of a product or service involved in an exchange. If it is not clear whether an entity is a broker, seller, or buyer, the latter two terms are preferred. | |
| buyer | A sub property of participant. The participant/person/organization that bought the object. | |
| byArtist | The artist that performed this album or recording. | |
| candidate | A sub property of object. The candidate subject of this action. | |
| ccRecipient | A sub property of recipient. The recipient copied on a message. | |
| character | Fictional person connected with a creative work. | |
| children | A child of the person. | |
| claimInterpreter | For a Claim interpreted from MediaObject content | |
| coach | A person that acts in a coaching role for a sports team. | |
| colleague | A colleague of the person. | |
| colleagues | A colleague of the person. | |
| colorist | The individual who adds color to inked drawings. | |
| competitor | A competitor in a sports event. | |
| composer | The person or organization who wrote a composition, or who is the composer of a work performed at some event. | |
| contributor | A secondary contributor to the CreativeWork or Event. | |
| copyrightHolder | The party holding the legal copyright to the CreativeWork. | |
| creator | The creator/author of this CreativeWork. This is the same as the Author property for CreativeWork. | |
| creditedTo | The group the release is credited to if different than the byArtist. For example, Red and Blue is credited to "Stefani Germanotta Band", but by Lady Gaga. | |
| customer | Party placing the order or paying the invoice. | |
| director | A director of e.g. TV, radio, movie, video gaming etc. content, or of an event. Directors can be associated with individual items or with a series, episode, clip. | |
| directors | A director of e.g. TV, radio, movie, video games etc. content. Directors can be associated with individual items or with a series, episode, clip. | |
| editor | Specifies the Person who edited the CreativeWork. | |
| employee | Someone working for this organization. | |
| employees | People working for this organization. | |
| endorsee | A sub property of participant. The person/organization being supported. | |
| endorsers | People or organizations that endorse the plan. | |
| followee | A sub property of object. The person or organization being followed. | |
| follows | The most generic uni-directional social relation. | |
| founder | A person who founded this organization. | |
| founders | A person who founded this organization. | |
| fundedItem | Indicates something directly or indirectly funded or sponsored through a Grant. See also ownershipFundingInfo. | |
| funder | A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution. | |
| grantee | The person, organization, contact point, or audience that has been granted this permission. | |
| hiringOrganization | Organization or Person offering the job position. | |
| homeTeam | The home team in a sports event. | |
| illustrator | The illustrator of the book. | |
| inker | The individual who traces over the pencil drawings in ink after pencils are complete. | |
| instructor | A person assigned to instruct or provide instructional assistance for the CourseInstance. | |
| knows | The most generic bi-directional social/work relation. | |
| landlord | A sub property of participant. The owner of the real estate property. | |
| legislationPassedBy | The person or organization that originally passed or made the law: typically parliament (for primary legislation) or government (for secondary legislation). This indicates the "legal author" of the law, as opposed to its physical author. | |
| legislationResponsible | An individual or organization that has some kind of responsibility for the legislation. Typically the ministry who is/was in charge of elaborating the legislation, or the adressee for potential questions about the legislation once it is published. | |
| lender | A sub property of participant. The person that lends the object being borrowed. | |
| letterer | The individual who adds lettering, including speech balloons and sound effects, to artwork. | |
| loser | A sub property of participant. The loser of the action. | |
| lyricist | The person who wrote the words. | |
| maintainer | A maintainer of a Dataset, software package (SoftwareApplication), or other Project. A maintainer is a Person or Organization that manages contributions to, and/or publication of, some (typically complex) artifact. It is common for distributions of software and data to be based on "upstream" sources. When maintainer is applied to a specific version of something e.g. a particular version or packaging of a Dataset, it is always possible that the upstream source has a different maintainer. The isBasedOn property can be used to indicate such relationships between datasets to make the different maintenance roles clear. Similarly in the case of software, a package may have dedicated maintainers working on integration into software distributions such as Ubuntu, as well as upstream maintainers of the underlying work. | |
| member | A member of an Organization or a ProgramMembership. Organizations can be members of organizations; ProgramMembership is typically for individuals. | |
| members | A member of this organization. | |
| merchant | 'merchant' is an out-dated term for 'seller'. | |
| musicBy | The composer of the soundtrack. | |
| musicGroupMember | A member of a music group—for example, John, Paul, George, or Ringo. | |
| offeredBy | A pointer to the organization or person making the offer. | |
| opponent | A sub property of participant. The opponent on this action. | |
| organizer | An organizer of an Event. | |
| parent | A parent of this person. | |
| parents | A parents of the person. | |
| participant | Other co-agents that participated in the action indirectly. E.g. John wrote a book with Steve. | |
| penciler | The individual who draws the primary narrative artwork. | |
| performer | A performer at the event—for example, a presenter, musician, musical group or actor. | |
| performers | The main performer or performers of the event—for example, a presenter, musician, or actor. | |
| producer | The person or organization who produced the work (e.g. music album, movie, TV/radio series etc.). | |
| provider | The service provider, service operator, or service performer; the goods producer. Another party (a seller) may offer those services or goods on behalf of the provider. A provider may also serve as the seller. | |
| publishedBy | An agent associated with the publication event. | |
| publisher | The publisher of the creative work. | |
| readBy | A person who reads (performs) the audiobook. | |
| recipient | A sub property of participant. The participant who is at the receiving end of the action. | |
| relatedTo | The most generic familial relation. | |
| reviewedBy | People or organizations that have reviewed the content on this web page for accuracy and/or completeness. | |
| sdPublisher | Indicates the party responsible for generating and publishing the current structured data markup, typically in cases where the structured data is derived automatically from existing published content but published on a different site. For example, student projects and open data initiatives often re-publish existing content with more explicitly structured metadata. The
sdPublisher property helps make such practices more explicit. | |
| seller | An entity which offers (sells / leases / lends / loans) the services / goods. A seller may also be a provider. | |
| sender | A sub property of participant. The participant who is at the sending end of the action. | |
| sibling | A sibling of the person. | |
| siblings | A sibling of the person. | |
| spokenByCharacter | The (e.g. fictional) character, Person or Organization to whom the quotation is attributed within the containing CreativeWork. | |
| sponsor | A person or organization that supports a thing through a pledge, promise, or financial contribution. E.g. a sponsor of a Medical Study or a corporate sponsor of an event. | |
| spouse | The person's spouse. | |
| toRecipient | A sub property of recipient. The recipient who was directly sent the message. | |
| translator | Organization or person who adapts a creative work to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a target market, or that translates during some event. | |
| underName | The person or organization the reservation or ticket is for. | |
| vendor | 'vendor' is an earlier term for 'seller'. | |
| winner | A sub property of participant. The winner of the action. |
| Property | Expected Type | description |
|---|---|---|
| additionalName | Text | An additional name for a Person, can be used for a middle name. |
| address | Text PostalAddress | Physical address of the item. |
| affiliation | An organization that this person is affiliated with. For example, a school/university, a club, or a team. | |
| alumniOf | An organization that the person is an alumni of. | |
| award | Text | An award won by or for this item. |
| awards | Text | Awards won by or for this item. |
| birthDate | Date | A date of birth. |
| birthPlace | The place where the person was born. | |
| brand | The brand(s) associated with a product or service, or the brand(s) maintained by an organization or business person. | |
| callSign | Text | As used in broadcasting and radio communications to identify people, radio and TV stations, or vehicles. |
| children | A child of the person. | |
| colleague | Person URL | A colleague of the person. |
| colleagues | A colleague of the person. | |
| contactPoint | A contact point for a person or organization. | |
| contactPoints | A contact point for a person or organization. | |
| deathDate | Date | Date of death. |
| deathPlace | The place where the person died. | |
| duns | Text | The Dun & Bradstreet DUNS number for identifying an organization or business person. |
Text | Email address. | |
| familyName | Text | The last name of a person. |
| faxNumber | Text | A string representing a fax number. |
| follows | The most generic uni-directional social relation. | |
| funder | A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution. | |
| funding | A Grant that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also ownershipFundingInfo. | |
| gender | The gender of a person. | |
| givenName | Text | The first name of a person. |
| globalLocationNumber | Text | The Global Location Number (GLN, sometimes also referred to as International Location Number or ILN) of the respective organization, person, or place. The GLN is a 13-digit number used to identify parties and physical locations. |
| hasCredential | A credential awarded to the Person or Organization. | |
| hasOccupation | The Person's occupation. For past professions, use Role for expressing dates. | |
| hasOfferCatalog | Indicates an OfferCatalog listing for this Organization, Person, or Service. | |
| hasPOS | Points-of-Sales operated by the organization or person. | |
| height | The height of an a thing. | |
| homeLocation | A contact location for a person's residence. | |
| honorificPrefix | Text | An honorific prefix preceding a Person's name such as Dr/Mrs/Mr. |
| honorificSuffix | Text | An honorific suffix following a Person's name such as M.D./PhD/MSCSW. |
| interactionStatistic | The number of interactions for the CreativeWork using the WebSite or SoftwareApplication. The most specific child type of InteractionCounter should be used. | |
| isicV4 | Text | International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Revision 4 (ISIC Rev.4) code identifying either an entity’s activity or an industry category (section, division, group, or class). |
| jobTitle | DefinedTerm Text | The job title of a person. |
| knows | The most generic bi-directional social/work relation. | |
| knowsAbout | Of a Person, and less typically of an Organization, to indicate a topic that is known about - suggesting possible expertise but not implying it. We do not distinguish skill levels here, or relate this to educational content, events, objectives or JobPosting descriptions. | |
| knowsLanguage | Text Language | Of a Person, and less typically of an Organization, to indicate a known language. We do not distinguish skill levels or reading/writing/speaking/signing here. Use language codes from the IETF BCP 47 standard. |
| makesOffer | A pointer to products or services offered by the organization or person. | |
| memberOf | An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs. | |
| naics | Text | North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code identifying either an entity’s classified activity or an industry category (sector, subsector, industry group, industry, or national industry). |
| nationality | Nationality of the person. | |
| netWorth | The total financial value of the person as calculated by subtracting assets from liabilities. | |
| owns | Products owned by the organization or person. | |
| parent | A parent of this person. | |
| parents | A parents of the person. | |
| performerIn | Event that this person is a performer or participant in. | |
| personType | ||
| playTypes | The types of sport, active recreation, and fitness associated with the entity. | |
| publishingPrinciples | CreativeWork URL | The publishingPrinciples property indicates (typically via URL) a document describing the editorial principles of an Organization (or individual, e.g. a Person writing a blog) that relate to their activities as a publisher, e.g. ethics or diversity policies. When applied to a CreativeWork (e.g. NewsArticle) the principles are those of the party primarily responsible for the creation of the CreativeWork. While such policies are most typically expressed in natural language, sometimes related information (e.g. indicating a funder) can be expressed using schema.org terminology. |
| relatedTo | The most generic familial relation. | |
| seeks | A pointer to products or services sought by the organization or person (demand). | |
| sibling | A sibling of the person. | |
| siblings | A sibling of the person. | |
| sponsor | A person or organization that supports a thing through a pledge, promise, or financial contribution. E.g. a sponsor of a Medical Study or a corporate sponsor of an event. | |
| spouse | The person's spouse. | |
| taxID | Text | The Tax / Fiscal ID of the organization or person, e.g. the TIN in the US or the CIF/NIF in Spain. |
| telephone | Text | The telephone number. Including the international dialing prefix. |
| vatID | Text | The Value-added Tax ID of the organization or person. |
| weight | The weight of a thing. | |
| workLocation | A contact location for a person's place of work. | |
| worksFor | Organizations that the person works for. |
| Property | Expected Type | description |
|---|---|---|
| activationSubmittedAt | DateTime | The time at which the activation form was submitted. |
| businessType | ||
| existingCustomers | Boolean | Indicates whether a provider has existing customers when applying for activation. |
| providerSubTypes | ||
| providerType | ||
| statusChanges | Tracks the status changes of an account and the metadata associated with each change. |
| Property | Expected Type | description |
|---|---|---|
| additionalType | URL | An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally. |
| alternateName | Text | An alias for the item. |
| description | Text | A description of the item. |
| disambiguatingDescription | Text | A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation. |
| identifier | The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. | |
| image | URL ImageObject | An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject. |
| instanceOf | Type to which this subject belongs. Use for membership in a value set (Enumeration), not inheritance. Example: K2 instanceOf mountain; volcano subClassOf mountain. | |
| mainEntityOfPage | URL CreativeWork | Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. |
| name | Text | The name of the item. |
| potentialAction | Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role. | |
| sameAs | URL | URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website. |
| subjectOf | A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. | |
| url | URL | URL of the item. |