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BreadcrumbList

A BreadcrumbList is an ItemList consisting of a chain of linked Web pages, typically described using at least their URL and their name, and typically ending with the current page.

The position property is used to reconstruct the order of the items in a BreadcrumbList. The convention is that a breadcrumb list has an itemListOrder of ItemListOrderAscending (lower values listed first), and that the first items in this list correspond to the "top" or beginning of the breadcrumb trail, e.g. with a site or section homepage. The specific values of 'position' are not assigned meaning for a BreadcrumbList, but they should be integers, e.g. beginning with '1' for the first item in the list.

Kind of
ItemList
Properties
None of its own18 more from 2 types above it
Source
Schema.org 30.1

Read the 18 properties JSON-LDMarkdown

Properties

All 18 are inherited. Each says what kind of value it takes.

From ItemList4
PropertyValueWhat it means
aggregateElementPendingValue: Thing

Indicates a prototype of the elements in the list that is used to hold aggregate information (ratings, offers, etc.).

itemListElementValue: ListItem, Text or Thing

For itemListElement values, you can use simple strings (e.g. "Peter", "Paul", "Mary"), existing entities, or use ListItem.

Text values are best if the elements in the list are plain strings. Existing entities are best for a simple, unordered list of existing things in your data. ListItem is used with ordered lists when you want to provide additional context about the element in that list or when the same item might be in different places in different lists.

Note: The order of elements in your mark-up is not sufficient for indicating the order or elements. Use ListItem with a 'position' property in such cases.

itemListOrderValue: ItemListOrderType or Text

Type of ordering (e.g. Ascending, Descending, Unordered).

numberOfItemsValue: Integer

The number of items in an ItemList. Note that some descriptions might not fully describe all items in a list (e.g., multi-page pagination); in such cases, the numberOfItems would be for the entire list.

From Thing14
PropertyValueWhat it means
additionalTypeValue: 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.

alternateNameValue: Text

An alias for the item.

descriptionValue: Text or TextObject

A description of the item.

digital.org.aiValue: Number

Digital maturity score from 0.0 (fully analog/manual) to 1.0 (fully digital/autonomous). Indicates the degree to which an entity operates digitally.

disambiguatingDescriptionValue: 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.

identifierValue: PropertyValue, 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.

imageValue: ImageObject or URL

An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.

mainEntityOfPageValue: CreativeWork or URL

Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.

nameValue: Text

The name of the item.

ownerValue: Organization or Person

A person or organization who owns this Thing.

potentialActionValue: Action

Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.

sameAsValue: 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.

subjectOfValue: CreativeWork or Event

A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.

urlValue: URL

URL of the item.

Where it is a value

One property takes a BreadcrumbList as its value.

Where this comes from

Quoted from Schema.org, and credited. Nothing in this definition is written by us.

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