Journal DRAFT Profile
Version: 0.1-DRAFT-2019_05_09 (09 May 2019)
Bioschemas profile, based on Biotea model, describing a Journal in Life Sciences. For markup purposes, we are keeping the schema:Periodical type so it will be easily recognized and parsed by search engines.
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Contributors
The following people have been involved in the creation of this specification document. They are all members of the Scholarly Publications group.
Group Leader(s)
Other team members
Schema.org hierarchy
This Profile fits into the schema.org hierarchy as follows:Thing > CreativeWork > CreativeWorkSeries
Description
A Journal is a collection of publication issues, publication volumes or scholarly articles, or possibly, although no commonly, any mix from those mentioned.
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Latest release: none
Latest draft: 0.2-DRAFT-2020_12_03
Previous profiles
Previous version: 0.1-DRAFT-2019_03_15
| Group | Use Cases | Cross Walk | Task & Issues | Examples | Live Deploys |
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| Scholarly Publications |
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You can read the release version of this specification here.
Key to specification table
- Green properties/types are proposed by Bioschemas, or indicate proposed changes by Bioschemas to Schema.org
- Red properties/types exist in the core of Schema.org
- Blue properties/types exist in the pending area of Schema.org
- Black properties/types are reused from external vocabularies/ontologies
CD = Cardinality
| Property | Expected Type | Description | CD | Controlled Vocabulary | Example |
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| Marginality: Minimum. | |||||
| identifier |
URL |
Schema: The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details. Bioschemas: We recommend to use a FAIR identifier. |
ONE | ||
| issn |
Text |
Schema: The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) that identifies this serial publication. You can repeat this property to identify different formats of, or the linking ISSN (ISSN-L) for, this serial publication. Bioschemas: We recommend to use here the form namespace:id. For instance, issn:2041-1480. |
ONE | ||
| name |
Text |
Schema: The name of the item. Bioschemas: Title/name of the journal. |
ONE | ||
| Marginality: Recommended. | |||||
| hasPart |
PublicationIssue PublicationVolume ScholarlyArticle |
Schema: Indicates an item or CreativeWork that is part of this item, or CreativeWork (in some sense). Inverse property: isPartOf. Bioschemas: A Journal has part a PublicationVolume or PublicationIssue or ScholaryArticle. We recommend to at least include the highest level ‘hasPart’, e.g., PublicationVolume. It is also possible, i.e., optional, to ‘hasPart’ to link as well directly to PublicationIssue and ScholarlyArticle, making it easier to find articles in this journal. |
MANY | ||
| keywords |
Text |
Schema: Keywords or tags used to describe this content. Multiple entries in a keywords list are typically delimited by commas. |
ONE | ||
| license |
CreativeWork URL |
Schema: A license document that applies to this content, typically indicated by URL. |
ONE | ||
| publisher |
Organization Person |
Schema: The publisher of the creative work. |
MANY | ||
| url |
URL |
Schema: URL of the item. |
ONE | ||
| Marginality: Optional. | |||||
| about |
Thing |
Schema: The subject matter of the content. Inverse property: subjectOf. Bioschemas: Describes what this Journal is about. |
MANY | ||
| alternateName |
Text |
Schema: An alias for the item. |
MANY | ||
| editor |
Person |
Schema: Specifies the Person who edited the CreativeWork. |
MANY | ||
| inLanguage |
Language Text |
Schema: The language of the content or performance or used in an action. Please use one of the language codes from the IETF BCP 47 standard. See also availableLanguage. Supersedes language. |
MANY | ||
| isAccessibleForFree |
Boolean |
Schema: A flag to signal that the item, event, or place is accessible for free. Supersedes free. |
ONE | ||
| publishingPrinciples |
CreativeWork URL |
Schema: 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. |
ONE | ||
| sameAs |
URL |
Schema: 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. |
MANY | ||