# temporalCoverage

The temporalCoverage of a CreativeWork indicates the period that the content applies to, i.e. that it describes, either as a DateTime or as a textual string indicating a time period in [ISO 8601 time interval format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Time_intervals). In the case of a Dataset it will typically indicate the relevant time period in a precise notation (e.g. for a 2011 census dataset, the year 2011 would be written "2011/2012"). Other forms of content, e.g. ScholarlyArticle, Book, TVSeries or TVEpisode, may indicate their temporalCoverage in broader terms - textually or via well-known URL. Written works such as books may sometimes have precise temporal coverage too, e.g. a work set in 1939 - 1945 can be indicated in ISO 8601 interval format format via "1939/1945".

Open-ended date ranges can be written with ".." in place of the end date. For example, "2015-11/.." indicates a range beginning in November 2015 and with no specified final date. This is tentative and might be updated in future when ISO 8601 is officially updated.

## Expected Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [DateTime](https://schema.org.ai/DateTime) | A combination of date and time of day in the form \[-\]CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss\[Z\|(+\|-)hh:mm\] (see Chapter 5.4 of ISO 8601). |
| [Text](https://schema.org.ai/Text) | Data type: Text. |
| [URL](https://schema.org.ai/URL) | Data type: URL. |

## Used on Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [CreativeWork](https://schema.org.ai/CreativeWork) | The most generic kind of creative work, including books, movies, photographs, software programs, etc. |

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Quoted from Schema.org 30.1, https://schema.org/temporalCoverage, under CC BY-SA 3.0. Served by the Org.AI Foundation at https://schema.org.ai/temporalCoverage.