Schema.org v6.0

Vocabulary

Core changes

• Issue #1902 : Improvements to HowTo examples. See also #1895 .
• Issue #1761 : Changed mis-abbreviation of Friday as "Fri" to "Fr". Per the guidelines for openingHours, Friday should be abbreviated as "Fr." In one set of examples, it was abbreviated as "Fri.".
• Issue #1820 : hyperlink to new, recommended DOI resolver.
• Issue #1894 : Added reference to cryptocurrencies in description for 'paymentAccepted' and 'currenciesAccepted' properties. For consistency, also added to description of properties: 'discountCurrency', 'price', 'priceCurrency', 'currency'. Updated the description additions to reference ISO 4217 formats, cryptocurrency Ticker symbols, LETS and other currency types including single inline examples for each.
• Issue #1090 : Clarified Series, CreativeWorkSeries, EventSeries. The Series type is now intangible, rather than having an inappropriate CreativeWork supertype. We have two subtypes of it, CreativeWorkSeries (successor to the original definition of Series, which was too generally named), plus the proposed EventSeries type (currently in the Pending area). These domain-specific series types also have corresponding supertypes in CreativeWork and Event. See also.
• Issue #1155 : Clarified that encodingFormat, fileFormat mean the same thing, converged their definitions, and made encodingFormat the preferred term.
• Issue #1824 : Fixed typos in tickerSymbol.
• Issue #1833 : Added expected type ItemList to acceptedAnswer, suggestedAnswer.
• Issue #1799 : Fixed an error in an example for Question type.
• Issue #1686 : Added an extra ClaimReview example based on a TV clip.
• Issue #1762 : Added schema mapping declarations indicating that 'name' is a subproperty of rdfs:label, and equivalentProperty of dcterms:title.
• Issue #1729 : Improvements around HowTo, including declaration of CreativeWork as its supertype, and introduction of 'step' property instead of 'steps'.
• Issue #1732 : Changed HowToSection and HowToStep (which support the HowTo type) to have CreativeWork as their supertype.
• Issue #1723 : Introduced FAQPage, which represents a WebPage presenting one or more "Frequently asked questions".
• Issue #1935 : Extend the contentRating property to also expect the Rating type.
• Issue #2020 : Extend the byArtist property to also expect the Person type.

Changes inPending section

• Issue #1670 : Add asubjectOf toThing as an inverse property ofabout.
• Issue #1689 : Add EmployerAggregateRating as a subtype ofAggregateRating to differentiate ratings for the entity as an employer and thereviewAspect property toReview andRating to allow authors to specify the facet or relevant part of being reviewed.
• Issue #1698 : Add aOccupation type with the supporting properties, many of which existed forJobPosting. APerson's occupation can be specified withhasOccupation. The Occupation'sestimatedSalary is expressed as a MonetaryAmountDistribution , a subtype of the new QuantitativeValueDistribution type.
• Issue #1787 : Narrowed the range of legislationJurisdiction to AdministrativeArea rather than Place. Broadened the range of legislationIdentifier to include URL, to match with the description of the property.
• Issue #1815 : Added proposal for TouristDestination, TouristTrip, and Trip plus examples.
• Issue #1886 : Add basic sdPublisher and sdDatePublished (and in, sdLicense) markup, e.g. for when structured data created elsewhere.
• Issue #1866 : Added a proposed sdLicense property.
• Issue #1776 : Introduced DefinedTerm as a super type of the existing proposed term CategoryCode, to support non-categorical controlled terms.
• Issue #1828 : Added a Claim type, to make explicit a concept suggested in the ClaimReview fact-checking markup.
• Issue #1773 : Add aMediaSubscription type with the supporting properties to describe a subscription for viewing media. Also added ActionAccessSpecification to allow authors to specify when a ConsumeAction requires a subscription or a purchase.
• Issue #1744 : Improvements around Legislation vocabulary. Changed definition of "Legislation" to make it clear that it is a document. Deleted numerous inverse properties. Fixed Range on legislationType (CategoryCode). Added legislationJurisdiction as a subproperty of spatialCoverage. Fixed Definitive into DefinitiveLegalValue to align with other values. Expanded the definition of legislationIdentifier to clarify that it can apply to string or URIs. Fixed and adjusted the examples accordingly.
• Issue #1709 : Added an Occupation type and examples, to represent professions.
• Issue #1389 : Updated SpeakableSpecification-related properties, 'xpath' and 'cssSelector' to explain how they relate to 'WebPageElement'. Allowed both properties to be expected on that type.
• Issue #1525 : Improvement suggested by Trust Project, including addition of AskPublicNewsArticle, ownershipFundingInfo and diversityStaffingReport properties, editorial tweaks to dateline property. Second phase of additions included knowsAbout, knowsLanguage proposals ( #1688 .)
• Issue #1950 : Added CorrectionComment and a propertycorrection to point to it, as suggested by the Trust Project.

Changes in other named extensions

• Issue #1882 : Fix to OccupationalTherapy - Made OccupationalTherapy a simple class instead of a typeof schema:MedicalSpecialty
• Issue #1677 : Added (and #1900 improved) autos documentation.

Site Improvements

• Issue #1634 : Aliased 'rdf:HTML' to 'HTML' in JSON-LD context definitions.
• Issue #1879 : Fix to duplicate and missing properties listings in the CSV outputs for Types and Enumeration values (see also #1882 ).
• Issue #1878 : Improvements towards a more responsive HTML design, thanks to Dan Scott.
• Issue #1857 : Updated site search function to use Google Custom Search v2 API.
• Issue #1646 : Updated various links to use https when referring to this site.
• Issue #1722 : Continuous Integration tests now check RDFa syntax.
• Issue #1946 : Linked experimental D3/RDFS and OWL representations from thedevelopers page.