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ResearchProject

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A Research project.
PropertyExpected TypeDescription
Properties from Organization
acceptedPaymentMethod LoanOrCredit  or
PaymentMethod  or
Text		 The payment method(s) that are accepted in general by an organization, or for some specific demand or offer.
actionableFeedbackPolicy CreativeWork  or
URL		 For a NewsMediaOrganization or other news-related Organization, a statement about public engagement activities (for news media, the newsroom’s), including involving the public - digitally or otherwise -- in coverage decisions, reporting and activities after publication.
address PostalAddress  or
Text		 Physical address of the item.
agentInteractionStatistic InteractionCounter The number of completed interactions for this entity, in a particular role (the 'agent'), in a particular action (indicated in the statistic), and in a particular context (i.e. interactionService).
aggregateRating AggregateRating The overall rating, based on a collection of reviews or ratings, of the item.
alumni Person Alumni of an organization.
Inverse property: alumniOf
areaServed AdministrativeArea  or
GeoShape  or
Place  or
Text		 The geographic area where a service or offered item is provided. Supersedes serviceArea.
award Text An award won by or for this item. Supersedes awards.
brand Brand  or
Organization		 The brand(s) associated with a product or service, or the brand(s) maintained by an organization or business person.
contactPoint ContactPoint A contact point for a person or organization. Supersedes contactPoints.
correctionsPolicy CreativeWork  or
URL		 For an Organization (e.g. NewsMediaOrganization), a statement describing (in news media, the newsroom’s) disclosure and correction policy for errors.
department Organization 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.
dissolutionDate Date The date that this organization was dissolved.
diversityPolicy CreativeWork  or
URL		 Statement on diversity policy by an Organization e.g. a NewsMediaOrganization. For a NewsMediaOrganization, a statement describing the newsroom’s diversity policy on both staffing and sources, typically providing staffing data.
diversityStaffingReport Article  or
URL		 For an Organization (often but not necessarily a NewsMediaOrganization), a report on staffing diversity issues. In a news context this might be for example ASNE or RTDNA (US) reports, or self-reported.
duns Text The Dun & Bradstreet DUNS number for identifying an organization or business person.
email Text Email address.
employee Person Someone working for this organization. Supersedes employees.
ethicsPolicy CreativeWork  or
URL		 Statement about ethics policy, e.g. of a NewsMediaOrganization regarding journalistic and publishing practices, or of a Restaurant, a page describing food source policies. In the case of a NewsMediaOrganization, an ethicsPolicy is typically a statement describing the personal, organizational, and corporate standards of behavior expected by the organization.
event Event Upcoming or past event associated with this place, organization, or action. Supersedes events.
faxNumber Text The fax number.
founder Organization  or
Person		 A person or organization who founded this organization. Supersedes founders.
foundingDate Date The date that this organization was founded.
foundingLocation Place The place where the Organization was founded.
funder Organization  or
Person		 A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution.
funding Grant A Grant that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also ownershipFundingInfo.
Inverse property: fundedItem
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.
hasCertification Certification Certification information about a product, organization, service, place, or person.
hasCredential EducationalOccupationalCredential A credential awarded to the Person or Organization.
hasGS1DigitalLink URL The GS1 digital link associated with the object. This URL should conform to the particular requirements of digital links. The link should only contain the Application Identifiers (AIs) that are relevant for the entity being annotated, for instance a Product or an Organization, and for the correct granularity. In particular, for products:
  • A Digital Link that contains a serial number (AI 21) should only be present on instances of IndividualProduct
  • A Digital Link that contains a lot number (AI 10) should be annotated as SomeProduct if only products from that lot are sold, or IndividualProduct if there is only a specific product.
  • A Digital Link that contains a global model number (AI 8013) should be attached to a Product or a ProductModel.
Other item types should be adapted similarly.
hasMemberProgram MemberProgram MemberProgram offered by an Organization, for example an eCommerce merchant or an airline.
hasMerchantReturnPolicy MerchantReturnPolicy Specifies a MerchantReturnPolicy that may be applicable. Supersedes hasProductReturnPolicy.
hasOfferCatalog OfferCatalog Indicates an OfferCatalog listing for this Organization, Person, or Service.
hasPOS Place Points-of-Sales operated by the organization or person.
interactionStatistic InteractionCounter The number of interactions for the CreativeWork using the WebSite or SoftwareApplication. The most specific child type of InteractionCounter should be used. Supersedes interactionCount.
isicV4 Text The International Standard of Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 4 code for a particular organization, business person, or place.
iso6523Code Text An organization identifier as defined in ISO 6523(-1). The identifier should be in the XXXX:YYYYYY:ZZZ or XXXX:YYYYYYformat. Where XXXX is a 4 digit ICD (International Code Designator), YYYYYY is an OID (Organization Identifier) with all formatting characters (dots, dashes, spaces) removed with a maximal length of 35 characters, and ZZZ is an optional OPI (Organization Part Identifier) with a maximum length of 35 characters. The various components (ICD, OID, OPI) are joined with a colon character (ASCII 0x3a). Note that many existing organization identifiers defined as attributes like leiCode (0199), duns (0060) or GLN (0088) can be expressed using ISO-6523. If possible, ISO-6523 codes should be preferred to populating vatID or taxID, as ISO identifiers are less ambiguous.
keywords DefinedTerm  or
Text  or
URL		 Keywords or tags used to describe some item. Multiple textual entries in a keywords list are typically delimited by commas, or by repeating the property.
knowsAbout Text  or
Thing  or
URL		 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 Language  or
Text		 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.
legalName Text The official name of the organization, e.g. the registered company name.
leiCode Text An organization identifier that uniquely identifies a legal entity as defined in ISO 17442.
location Place  or
PostalAddress  or
Text  or
VirtualLocation		 The location of, for example, where an event is happening, where an organization is located, or where an action takes place.
logo ImageObject  or
URL		 An associated logo.
makesOffer Offer A pointer to products or services offered by the organization or person.
Inverse property: offeredBy
member Organization  or
Person		 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
memberOf MemberProgramTier  or
Organization  or
ProgramMembership		 An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs.
Inverse property: member
naics Text The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for a particular organization or business person.
nonprofitStatus NonprofitType nonprofitStatus indicates the legal status of a non-profit organization in its primary place of business.
numberOfEmployees QuantitativeValue The number of employees in an organization, e.g. business.
ownershipFundingInfo AboutPage  or
CreativeWork  or
Text  or
URL		 For an Organization (often but not necessarily a NewsMediaOrganization), a description of organizational ownership structure; funding and grants. In a news/media setting, this is with particular reference to editorial independence. Note that the funder is also available and can be used to make basic funder information machine-readable.
owns OwnershipInfo  or
Product		 Products owned by the organization or person.
parentOrganization Organization The larger organization that this organization is a subOrganization of, if any. Supersedes branchOf.
Inverse property: subOrganization
publishingPrinciples CreativeWork  or
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.
review Review A review of the item. Supersedes reviews.
seeks Demand A pointer to products or services sought by the organization or person (demand).
skills DefinedTerm  or
Text		 A statement of knowledge, skill, ability, task or any other assertion expressing a competency that is either claimed by a person, an organization or desired or required to fulfill a role or to work in an occupation.
slogan Text A slogan or motto associated with the item.
sponsor Organization  or
Person		 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.
subOrganization Organization 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
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.
unnamedSourcesPolicy CreativeWork  or
URL		 For an Organization (typically a NewsMediaOrganization), a statement about policy on use of unnamed sources and the decision process required.
vatID Text The Value-added Tax ID of the organization or person.
Properties from Thing
additionalType Text  or
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. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org style guide.
alternateName Text An alias for the item.
description Text  or
TextObject		 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 PropertyValue  or
Text  or
URL		 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.
image ImageObject  or
URL		 An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
mainEntityOfPage CreativeWork  or
URL		 Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.
Inverse property: mainEntity
name Text The name of the item.
potentialAction Action 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 CreativeWork  or
Event		 A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.
Inverse property: about
url URL URL of the item.

Source

https://schema.org/docs/collab/FundInfoCollab

https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/383


Examples

Example 1
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Example notes or example HTML without markup.
A scientific dataset.
Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Person",
  "name": "Turner, Caroline B.",
  "givenName": "Caroline B.",
  "familyName": "Turner",
  "funding": {
     "@type": "Grant",
     "identifier": "1448821",
     "funder": {
       "@type": "Organization",
       "name": "National Science Foundation",
       "identifier": "https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001"
     }
   }
}
</script>
Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.
Example 2
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No Markup JSON-LD Structure
Example notes or example HTML without markup.
A scientific dataset.
Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Person",
  "name": "Turner, Caroline B.",
  "givenName": "Caroline B.",
  "familyName": "Turner",
  "funding": {
     "@type": "Grant",
     "identifier": "1448821",
     "funder": {
       "@type": "Organization",
       "name": "National Science Foundation",
       "identifier": "https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001"
     }
   }
}
</script>
Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.
Example 3
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Example notes or example HTML without markup.
An example of an online repository that hosts scientific research data (JSON-LD only).
Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.
See https://github.com/ESIPFed/science-on-schema.org/blob/master/guides/DataRepository.md for a complete guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": {
    "@vocab": "https://schema.org/"
  },
  "@type": [
    "Service",
    "ResearchProject"
  ],
  "legalName": "Sample Data Repository Office",
  "name": "SDRO",
  "url": "https://www.sample-data-repository.org",
  "description": "The Sample Data Repository Service provides access to data from an imaginary domain accessible from this website.",
  "sameAs": [
    "http://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d1000000xx",
    "https://twitter.com/SDRO",
    "https://www.linkedin.com/company/123456789/"
  ],
  "category": [
    "Biological Oceanography",
    "Chemical Oceanography"
  ],
  "provider": [
    {
      "@type": "ResearchProject",
      "name": "SDRO Technical Office",
      "description": "We provide all the infrastructure for the SDRO"
    },
    {
      "@type": "ResearchProject",
      "name": "SDRO Science Support Office",
      "description": "We provide all the science support functionality for the SDRO"
    }
  ],
  "logo": {
    "@type": "ImageObject",
    "url": "https://www.sample-data-repository.org/images/logo.jpg"
  },
  "contactPoint": {
    "@type": "ContactPoint",
    "name": "Support",
    "email": "info@bco-dmo.org",
    "url": "https://www.sample-data-repository.org/about-us",
    "contactType": "customer support"
  },
  "foundingDate": "2006-09-01",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "123 Main St.",
    "addressLocality": "Anytown",
    "addressRegion": "ST",
    "postalCode": "12345",
    "addressCountry": "USA"
  },
  "parentOrganization": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "@id": "http://www.someinstitute.edu",
    "legalName": "Some Institute",
    "name": "SI",
    "url": "http://www.someinstitute.edu",
    "address": {
      "@type": "PostalAddress",
      "streetAddress": "234 Main St.",
      "addressLocality": "Anytown",
      "addressRegion": "ST",
      "postalCode": "12345",
      "addressCountry": "USA"
    }
  },
  "identifier": {
    "@type": "PropertyValue",
    "name": "Re3data DOI: 10.17616/R37P4C",
    "propertyID": "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/doi",
    "value": "doi:10.17616/R37P4C",
    "url": "https://doi.org/10.17616/R37P4C"
  },
  "funder": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "@id": "https://doi.org/10.13039/100000141",
    "legalName": "Division of Ocean Sciences",
    "alternateName": "OCE",
    "url": "https://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=OCE",
    "identifier": {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "propertyID": "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/doi",
      "value": "doi:10.13039/100000141",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.13039/100000141"
    },
    "parentOrganization": {
      "@type": "Organization",
      "@id": "http://doi.org/10.13039/100000085",
      "legalName": "Directorate for Geosciences",
      "alternateName": "NSF-GEO",
      "url": "http://www.nsf.gov",
      "identifier": {
        "@type": "PropertyValue",
        "propertyID": "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/doi",
        "value": "doi:10.13039/100000085",
        "url": "https://doi.org/10.13039/100000085"
      },
      "parentOrganization": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "@id": "http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001",
        "legalName": "National Science Foundation",
        "alternateName": "NSF",
        "url": "http://www.nsf.gov",
        "identifier": {
          "@type": "PropertyValue",
          "propertyID": "https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/doi",
          "value": "doi:10.13039/100000001",
          "url": "https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001"
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "availableChannel": [
    {
      "@type": "ServiceChannel",
      "serviceUrl": "https://www.sample-data-repository.org/search",
      "providesService": {
        "@type": "Service",
        "name": "SDRO Website Search",
        "description": "Search for webpages, datasets, authors, funding awards, instrumentation and measurements",
        "potentialAction": {
          "@type": "SearchAction",
          "target": "https://www.sample-data-repository.org/search?keywords={query_string}"
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "hasOfferCatalog": {
    "@type": "OfferCatalog",
    "name": "Sample Data Repository Resource Catalog",
    "itemListElement": [
      {
        "@type": "DataCatalog",
        "@id": "https://www.sample-data-repository.org/collection/biological-data",
        "name": "Biological Data",
        "audience": {
          "@type": "Audience",
          "audienceType": "public",
          "name": "General Public"
        }
      },
      {
        "@type": "DataCatalog",
        "@id": "https://www.sample-data-repository.org/collection/geological-data",
        "name": "Geological Data",
        "audience": {
          "@type": "Audience",
          "audienceType": "public",
          "name": "General Public"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}
</script>
Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.