Organization
An organization such as a school, NGO, corporation, club, etc.
Properties
78 of its own, and 14 it inherits. Each says what kind of value it takes.
| Property | Value | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| accepted | Value: Loan | The payment method(s) that are accepted in general by an organization, or for some specific demand or offer. |
| actionable | Value: Creative | 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 | Value: Postal | Physical address of the item. |
| agent | Value: Interaction | 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). |
| aggregate | Value: Aggregate | The overall rating, based on a collection of reviews or ratings, of the item. |
| alumni | Value: Person | Alumni of an organization. |
| area | Value: Administrative | The geographic area where a service or offered item is provided. |
| authorized | Value: Organization or Person | An organization or person officially appointed to act on behalf of the manufacturer in a specific region or context. |
| award | Value: Text | An award won by or for this item. |
| awardsSuperseded | Value: Text | Superseded by award. Awards won by or for this item. |
| brand | Value: Brand or Organization | The brand(s) associated with a product or service, or the brand(s) maintained by an organization or business person. |
| company | Value: Certification | The official registration information of a business including the organization that issued it such as Company House or Chamber of Commerce in form of a Certification. |
| contact | Value: Contact | A contact point for a person or organization. |
| contact | Value: Contact | Superseded by contact A contact point for a person or organization. |
| corrections | Value: Creative | For an Organization (e.g. NewsMediaOrganization), a statement describing (in news media, the newsroom’s) disclosure and correction policy for errors. |
| department | Value: 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. |
| dissolution | Value: Date | The date that this organization was dissolved. |
| diversity | Value: Creative | 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. |
| diversity | Value: 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 | Value: Text | The Dun & Bradstreet DUNS number for identifying an organization or business person. |
| Value: Text | Email address. | |
| employee | Value: Person | Someone working for this organization. |
| employeesSuperseded | Value: Person | Superseded by employee. People working for this organization. |
| ethics | Value: Creative | 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 | Value: Event | Upcoming or past event associated with this place, organization, or action. |
| eventsSuperseded | Value: Event | Superseded by event. Upcoming or past events associated with this place or organization. |
| fax | Value: Text | The fax number. |
| founder | Value: Organization or Person | A person or organization who founded this organization. |
| foundersSuperseded | Value: Person | Superseded by founder. A person who founded this organization. |
| founding | Value: Date | The date that this organization was founded. |
| founding | Value: Place | The place where the Organization was founded. |
| funder | Value: Organization or Person | A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution. |
| funding | Value: Grant | A Grant that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also ownershipFundingInfo. |
| global | Value: 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. |
| has | Value: Certification | Certification information about a product, organization, service, place, or person. |
| has | Value: Credential | A credential awarded to the Person or Organization. |
| has | Value: 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:
Other item types should be adapted similarly. |
| has | Value: Member | MemberProgram offered by an Organization, for example an eCommerce merchant or an airline. |
| has | Value: Merchant | Specifies a MerchantReturnPolicy that may be applicable. |
| has | Value: Offer | Indicates an OfferCatalog listing for this Organization, Person, or Service. |
| has | Value: Place | Points-of-Sales operated by the organization or person. |
| has | Value: Product | Superseded by has Indicates a ProductReturnPolicy that may be applicable. |
| has | Value: Shipping | Specification of a shipping service offered by the organization. |
| interaction | Value: Interaction | The number of interactions for the CreativeWork using the WebSite or SoftwareApplication. The most specific child type of InteractionCounter should be used. |
| isic | Value: Text | The International Standard of Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 4 code for a particular organization, business person, or place. |
| iso6523 | Value: Text | An organization identifier as defined in ISO 6523(-1). The identifier should be in the |
| keywords | Value: Defined | 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. |
| knows | Value: Text, 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. |
| knows | Value: 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. |
| legal | Value: Postal | The legal address of an organization which acts as the officially registered address used for legal and tax purposes. The legal address can be different from the place of operations of a business and other addresses can be part of an organization. |
| legal | Value: Text | The official name of the organization, e.g. the registered company name. |
| legal | Value: Person | One or multiple persons who represent this organization legally such as CEO or sole administrator. |
| lei | Value: Text | An organization identifier that uniquely identifies a legal entity as defined in ISO 17442. |
| location | Value: Place, Postal | The location of, for example, where an event is happening, where an organization is located, or where an action takes place. |
| logo | Value: Image | An associated logo. |
| makes | Value: Offer | A pointer to products or services offered by the organization or person. |
| member | Value: Organization or Person | A member of an Organization or a ProgramMembership. Organizations can be members of organizations; ProgramMembership is typically for individuals. |
| member | Value: Member | An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs. |
| membersSuperseded | Value: Organization or Person | Superseded by member. A member of this organization. |
| naics | Value: Text | The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for a particular organization or business person. |
| nonprofit | Value: Nonprofit | nonprofitStatus indicates the legal status of a non-profit organization in its primary place of business. |
| number | Value: Quantitative | The number of employees in an organization, e.g. business. |
| ownership | Value: About | 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 | Value: Thing | Things owned by the organization or person. |
| parent | Value: Organization | The larger organization that this organization is a subOrganization of, if any. |
| publishing | Value: Creative | 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 | Value: Review | A review of the item. |
| reviewsSuperseded | Value: Review | Superseded by review. Review of the item. |
| seeks | Value: Demand | A pointer to products or services sought by the organization or person (demand). |
| service | Value: Administrative | Superseded by area The geographic area where the service is provided. |
| skills | Value: Defined | 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 | Value: Text | A slogan or motto associated with the item. |
| sponsor | Value: 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. |
| sub | Value: Organization | A relationship between two organizations where the first includes the second, e.g., as a subsidiary. See also: the more specific 'department' property. |
| tax | Value: Text | The Tax / Fiscal ID of the organization or person, e.g. the TIN in the US or the CIF/NIF in Spain. |
| telephone | Value: Text | The telephone number. |
| unnamed | Value: Creative | For an Organization (typically a NewsMediaOrganization), a statement about policy on use of unnamed sources and the decision process required. |
| vat | Value: Text | The value-added Tax ID of the organization or person with national prefix (for example IT123456789). Can also be described as iso6523Code with proper prefix. |
| Property | Value | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| additional | Value: 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. |
| alternate | Value: Text | An alias for the item. |
| description | Value: Text or Text | A description of the item. |
| digital.org.ai | Value: 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. |
| disambiguating | Value: 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 | Value: Property | 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 | Value: Image | An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject. |
| main | Value: Creative | Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. |
| name | Value: Text | The name of the item. |
| owner | Value: Organization or Person | A person or organization who owns this Thing. |
| potential | Value: Action | Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role. |
| same | Value: 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. |
| subject | Value: Creative | A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. |
| url | Value: URL | URL of the item. |
Subtypes
25 more specific kinds of Organization, 171 counting their own subtypes.
- AirlineAn organization that provides flights for passengers.
- Company.org.aiA concrete firm: an organization that operates in an Industry, instantiates a CompanyType archetype, employs workers, and buys and sells.
- Company
Type.org.ai A company archetype derived from Industry × business model × regulatory regime. - ConsortiumA Consortium is a membership Organization whose members are typically Organizations.
- CooperativeAn organization that is a joint project of multiple organizations or persons.
- CorporationOrganization: A business corporation.
- Department.org.aiA functional department within a CompanyType (e.g.
- Educational
Organization6 subtypes An educational organization. - Funding
Scheme A FundingScheme combines organizational, project and policy aspects of grant-based funding that sets guidelines, principles and mechanisms to support other… - Government
Organization A governmental organization or agency. - Library
System A LibrarySystem is a collaborative system amongst several libraries. - Local
Business130 subtypes A particular physical business or branch of an organization. - Medical
Organization10 subtypes A medical organization (physical or not), such as hospital, institution or clinic. - News
Media A News/Media organization such as a newspaper or TV station.Organization - NGOOrganization: Non-governmental Organization.
- Online
Business2 subtypes A particular online business, either standalone or the online part of a broader organization. - Performing
Group3 subtypes A performance group, such as a band, an orchestra, or a circus. - Political
Party Organization: Political Party. - Project2 subtypesAn enterprise (potentially individual but typically collaborative), planned to achieve a particular aim.
- Research
OrganizationPending A Research Organization (e.g. scientific institute, research company). - Search
Rescue A Search and Rescue organization of some kind.OrganizationPending - Sports
Organization1 subtype Represents the collection of all sports organizations, including sports teams, governing bodies, and sports associations. - Startup.org.aiA startup company threading the lifecycle stages idea → validating → building → scaling → established, with pitch, industry, and its ICPs.
- Team.org.aiA team: a named group of workers (agents and humans) with members, an optional lead, goals, and communication channels.
- Workers
Union A Workers Union (also known as a Labor Union, Labour Union, or Trade Union) is an organization that promotes the interests of its worker members by…
Where it is a value
82 properties take an Organization as their value.
- acquired
From on OwnershipInfo - affiliationon Person
- agenton Action
- alumni
Of on Person - attendeeon Event
- attendeeson Event
- authenticatoron Media
Subscription - authoron Creative
Work and Rating - authorized
Representative on Organization and Product - bcc
Recipient on Message - booking
Agent on Reservation - branch
Of on LocalBusiness - brandon 4 types
- broadcast
Affiliate on BroadcastOf Service - broadcasteron Broadcast
Service - brokeron 4 types
- buyeron Sell
Action - carrieron Flight and Parcel
Delivery - cc
Recipient on Message - claim
Interpreter on Claim - composeron Event and Music
Composition - contributoron Creative
Work and Event - copyright
Holder on CreativeWork - creatoron Creative
Work and User Comments - credited
To on MusicRelease - customeron Invoice and Order
- departmenton Organization
- eligible
With on FinancialSupplier Incentive - employment
Unit on JobPosting - endorseeon Endorse
Action - endorserson Diet
- followeeon Follow
Action - founderon Organization
- funded
Item on Grant - funderon 6 types
- granteeon Digital
Document Permission - hiring
Organization on JobPosting - hosting
Organization on MemberProgram and Program Membership - importeron Product
- issued
By on 3 types - landlordon Rent
Action - legislation
Countersigned on LegislationBy - legislation
Passed on LegislationBy - legislation
Responsible on Legislation - lenderon Borrow
Action - maintaineron Creative
Work - manufactureron Product
- memberon Organization and Program
Membership - member
Of on Organization and Person - memberson Organization and Program
Membership - merchanton Order
- offered
By on Offer - organizeron Event
- owneron Thing
- parent
Organization on Organization - participanton Action
- performeron Event
- performerson Event
- produceron Creative
Work - production
Company on 8 types - provideron 10 types
- published
By on PublicationEvent - publisheron Creative
Work and Financial Incentive - publisher
Imprint on CreativeWork - recipienton 9 types
- recognized
By on Credential - recognizing
Authority on MedicalEntity - record
Label on MusicRelease - reviewed
By on WebPage - sd
Publisher on CreativeWork - selleron 5 types
- senderon Message and Receive
Action - service
Operator on GovernmentService - source
Organization on CreativeWork - spoken
By on QuotationCharacter - sponsoron 6 types
- sub
Organization on Organization - to
Recipient on Message - translatoron Creative
Work and Event - under
Name on Reservation and Ticket - vendoron Buy
Action - works
For on Person
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