Organization DRAFT Profile
Version: 0.2-DRAFT-2019_07_19 (19 July 2019)
Bioschemas specification for describing a Organization in the life-science.
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Contributors
The following people have been involved in the creation of this specification document. They are all members of the Organizations group.
Group Leader(s)
Richard Holland
Other team members
Schema.org hierarchy
This Profile fits into the schema.org hierarchy as follows:Thing > Organization
Description
Provides a way to describe bioscience organizations on the World Wide Web. It defines metadata terms that can be used in the code of web pages and applications, and builds on top of existing technologies and standards. The goal of the specification is to make it easier to discover, exchange and integrate life science organization profiles across the Internet.
Latest profiles
Latest release: none
Latest draft: 0.2-DRAFT-2019_07_19
Previous profiles
Previous version: 0.2-DRAFT-2019_07_17
| Group | Use Cases | Cross Walk | Task & Issues | Examples | Live Deploys |
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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. | |||||
| description |
Text |
Schema: A description of the item. |
ONE | ||
| legalName |
Text |
Schema: The official name of the organization, e.g. the registered company name. |
ONE | ||
| name |
Text |
Schema: The name of the item. |
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. |
ONE | ||
| topic |
Text URL |
Bioschemas: Scientific topics that describe the organization and its activities, ideally using an ontology term from EDAM:Topic. |
MANY | ||
| type |
Text URL |
Bioschemas: The type of the organization should be selected from the Controlled Vocabulary column. |
MANY | single-company corporation, multinational, not-for-profit, alliance, consortium, institute, department, working party, project. |
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| Marginality: Recommended. | |||||
| alternateName |
Text |
Schema: An alias for the item. |
ONE | ||
| contactPoint |
ContactPoint |
Schema: A contact point for a person or organization. Supersedes contactPoints. |
MANY | ||
| fundingModel |
Text |
Bioschemas: A description of how the organization is funded. |
ONE | ||
| keywords |
Text |
Schema: Keywords or tags used to describe this content. Multiple entries in a keywords list are typically delimited by commas. |
ONE | ||
| location |
Place PostalAddress Text |
Schema: The location of for example where the event is happening, an organization is located, or where an action takes place. |
ONE | ||
| logo |
ImageObject URL |
Schema: An associated logo. |
ONE | ||
| member |
Organization Person |
Schema: A member of an Organization or a ProgramMembership. Organizations can be members of organizations; ProgramMembership is typically for individuals. Supersedes members, musicGroupMember. Inverse property: memberOf. |
MANY | ||
| memberOf |
Organization ProgramMembership |
Schema: An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs. Inverse property: member. |
MANY | ||
| membershipCategory |
Offer |
Bioschemas: Defines a membership category and associated fees (for projects and alliances etc.). |
MANY | ||
| status |
Text |
Bioschemas: To record if the organization is still alive, and if it were are project or alliance, what the outcome was, or if it has closed down or merged, why and when. Note: There is a health-lifesci.status, but this is not related to the current status property |
ONE | active, dormant, merged, closed |
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| url |
URL |
Schema: URL of the item. |
MANY | ||
| Marginality: Optional. | |||||
| attachment |
URL |
Bioschemas: Any files or related websites which give more information about this organization, e.g., flyers, third party sites, … |
MANY | ||
| budget |
PriceSpecification |
Bioschemas: The annual (or total - for a project) budget for the organization. |
ONE | ||
| dateModified |
Date DateTime |
Schema: The date on which the CreativeWork was most recently modified or when the item’s entry was modified within a DataFeed. Bioschemas: The date when the organization information was last modified. |
ONE | ||
| department |
Organization |
Schema: A relationship between an organization and a department of that organization, also described as an organization (allowing different urls, logos, opening hours). For example: a store with a pharmacy, or a bakery with a cafe. |
MANY | ||
| dissolutionDate |
Date |
Schema: The date that this organization was dissolved. |
ONE | ||
| founderMember |
Organization Person |
Bioschemas: For an alliance or collaboration or project, the founding members. NOTE: schema/Organization has founder but this has a type of Person not Person and Organization |
MANY | ||
| foundingDate |
Date |
Schema: The date that this organization was founded. |
ONE | ||
| owns |
OwnershipInfo Product |
Schema: Products owned by the organization or person. |
MANY | ||
| parentOrganization |
Organization |
Schema: The larger organization that this organization is a subOrganization of, if any. Supersedes branchOf. Inverse property: subOrganization. |
ONE | ||
| socialMedia |
URL |
Bioschemas: Link to social media websites like twitter or facebook. |
MANY | ||
| subOrganization |
Organization |
Schema: A relationship between two organizations where the first includes the second, e.g., as a subsidiary. See also: the more specific ‘department’ property. Inverse property: parentOrganization. |
MANY | ||