Organization

An organization such as a school, NGO, corporation, club, etc.

Subclass of: Thing
More specific types: Airline, Consortium, Cooperative, Corporation, FundingScheme, GovernmentOrganization, LibrarySystem, MedicalOrganization, NGO, NewsMediaOrganization, OnlineBusiness, PerformingGroup, PoliticalParty, Project, ResearchOrganization, SearchRescueOrganization, SportsOrganization, WorkersUnion

Properties from Organization

Property Expected Type Description
acceptedPaymentMethod LoanOrCredit, Text, PaymentMethod The payment method(s) that are accepted in general by an organization, or for some specific demand or offer.
actionableFeedbackPolicy CreativeWork, 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 Text, PostalAddress 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.
areaServed AdministrativeArea, Place, GeoShape, Text The geographic area where a service or offered item is provided.
award Text An award won by or for this item.
awards Text Awards won by or for this item.
brand Brand, Organization The brand(s) associated with a product or service, or the brand(s) maintained by an organization or business person.
companyRegistration Certification The official registration number of a business including the organization that issued it such as Company House or Chamber of Commerce.
contactPoint ContactPoint A contact point for a person or organization.
contactPoints ContactPoint A contact point for a person or organization.
correctionsPolicy URL, CreativeWork 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 URL, CreativeWork 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, 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.
employees Person People working for this organization.
ethicsPolicy CreativeWork, 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.
events Event Upcoming or past events associated with this place or organization.
faxNumber Text The fax number.
founder Person, Organization A person or organization who founded this organization.
founders Person A person who founded this organization.
foundingDate Date The date that this organization was founded.
foundingLocation Place The place where the Organization was founded.
funder Organization, 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.
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.
hasOfferCatalog OfferCatalog Indicates an OfferCatalog listing for this Organization, Person, or Service.
hasPOS Place Points-of-Sales operated by the organization or person.
hasShippingService ShippingService Specification of a shipping service offered by the organization.
interactionStatistic InteractionCounter The number of interactions for the CreativeWork using the WebSite or SoftwareApplication. The most specific child type of InteractionCounter should be used.
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:YYYYYY`format. 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 URL, Text, DefinedTerm 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 URL, Text, Thing 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 Text, Language 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.
legalAddress PostalAddress 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.
legalName Text The official name of the organization, e.g. the registered company name.
legalRepresentative Person One or multiple persons who represent this organization legally such as CEO or sole administrator.
leiCode Text An organization identifier that uniquely identifies a legal entity as defined in ISO 17442.
location VirtualLocation, PostalAddress, Place, Text The location of, for example, where an event is happening, where an organization is located, or where an action takes place.
logo URL, ImageObject An associated logo.
makesOffer Offer A pointer to products or services offered by the organization or person.
member Organization, Person A member of an Organization or a ProgramMembership. Organizations can be members of organizations; ProgramMembership is typically for individuals.
memberOf ProgramMembership, MemberProgramTier, Organization An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs.
members Organization, Person A member of this organization.
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, CreativeWork, Text, 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 Product, OwnershipInfo Products owned by the organization or person.
parentOrganization Organization The larger organization that this organization is a subOrganization of, if any.
publishingPrinciples URL, CreativeWork 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.
reviews Review Review of the item.
seeks Demand A pointer to products or services sought by the organization or person (demand).
serviceArea Place, AdministrativeArea, GeoShape The geographic area where the service is provided.
skills DefinedTerm, 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 Person, Organization 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.
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, 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

Property Expected Type Description
additionalType Text, 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 TextObject, Text 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, URL, Text 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, URL An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
mainEntityOfPage URL, CreativeWork Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.
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, Event A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.
url URL URL of the item.

Instances of Organization may appear as a value for the following properties

Property On Types Description
agent Action The direct performer or driver of the action (animate or inanimate). E.g. *John* wrote a book.
alumniOf Person An organization that the person is an alumni of.
attendees Event A person attending the event.
author CreativeWork, Rating The author of this content or rating. Please note that author is special in that HTML 5 provides a special mechanism for indicating authorship via the rel tag. That is equivalent to this and may be used interchangeably.
bookingAgent Reservation 'bookingAgent' is an out-dated term indicating a 'broker' that serves as a booking agent.
branchOf LocalBusiness The larger organization that this local business is a branch of, if any. Not to be confused with (anatomical) branch.
brand Service, Product, Person, Organization The brand(s) associated with a product or service, or the brand(s) maintained by an organization or business person.
broadcaster BroadcastService The organization owning or operating the broadcast service.
broker Order, Reservation, Invoice, Service An entity that arranges for an exchange between a buyer and a seller. In most cases a broker never acquires or releases ownership of a product or service involved in an exchange. If it is not clear whether an entity is a broker, seller, or buyer, the latter two terms are preferred.
claimInterpreter Claim For a Claim interpreted from MediaObject content, the interpretedAsClaim property can be used to indicate a claim contained, implied or refined from the content of a MediaObject.
composer Event, MusicComposition The person or organization who wrote a composition, or who is the composer of a work performed at some event.
copyrightHolder CreativeWork The party holding the legal copyright to the CreativeWork.
creator CreativeWork, UserComments The creator/author of this CreativeWork. This is the same as the Author property for CreativeWork.
customer Invoice, Order Party placing the order or paying the invoice.
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.
eligibleWithSupplier FinancialIncentive The supplier of the incentivized item/service for which the incentive is valid for such as a utility company, merchant, or contractor.
employmentUnit JobPosting Indicates the department, unit and/or facility where the employee reports and/or in which the job is to be performed.
endorsee EndorseAction A sub property of participant. The person/organization being supported.
endorsers Diet People or organizations that endorse the plan.
funder CreativeWork, Grant, MonetaryGrant, Organization, Event, Person A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution.
grantee DigitalDocumentPermission The person, organization, contact point, or audience that has been granted this permission.
hostingOrganization MemberProgram, ProgramMembership The Organization (airline, travelers' club, retailer, etc.) the membership is made with or which offers the MemberProgram.
legislationPassedBy Legislation The person or organization that originally passed or made the law: typically parliament (for primary legislation) or government (for secondary legislation). This indicates the "legal author" of the law, as opposed to its physical author.
lender BorrowAction A sub property of participant. The person that lends the object being borrowed.
maintainer CreativeWork A maintainer of a Dataset, software package (SoftwareApplication), or other Project. A maintainer is a Person or Organization that manages contributions to, and/or publication of, some (typically complex) artifact. It is common for distributions of software and data to be based on "upstream" sources. When maintainer is applied to a specific version of something e.g. a particular version or packaging of a Dataset, it is always possible that the upstream source has a different maintainer. The isBasedOn property can be used to indicate such relationships between datasets to make the different maintenance roles clear. Similarly in the case of software, a package may have dedicated maintainers working on integration into software distributions such as Ubuntu, as well as upstream maintainers of the underlying work.
offeredBy Offer A pointer to the organization or person making the offer.
organizer Event An organizer of an Event.
parentOrganization Organization The larger organization that this organization is a subOrganization of, if any.
participant Action Other co-agents that participated in the action indirectly. E.g. John wrote a book with *Steve*.
producer CreativeWork The person or organization who produced the work (e.g. music album, movie, TV/radio series etc.).
productionCompany MovieSeries, Movie, TVSeries, VideoGameSeries, RadioSeries, Episode, MediaObject, CreativeWorkSeason The production company or studio responsible for the item, e.g. series, video game, episode etc.
publishedBy PublicationEvent An agent associated with the publication event.
publisher FinancialIncentive, CreativeWork The publisher of the article in question.
publisherImprint CreativeWork The publishing division which published the comic.
recipient Message, AuthorizeAction, PayAction, TipAction, ReturnAction, SendAction, DonateAction, CommunicateAction, GiveAction A sub property of participant. The participant who is at the receiving end of the action.
recognizingAuthority MedicalEntity If applicable, the organization that officially recognizes this entity as part of its endorsed system of medicine.
recordLabel MusicRelease The label that issued the release.
reviewedBy WebPage People or organizations that have reviewed the content on this web page for accuracy and/or completeness.
sdPublisher CreativeWork Indicates the party responsible for generating and publishing the current structured data markup, typically in cases where the structured data is derived automatically from existing published content but published on a different site. For example, student projects and open data initiatives often re-publish existing content with more explicitly structured metadata. The sdPublisher property helps make such practices more explicit.
serviceOperator GovernmentService The operating organization, if different from the provider. This enables the representation of services that are provided by an organization, but operated by another organization like a subcontractor.
sourceOrganization CreativeWork The Organization on whose behalf the creator was working.
spokenByCharacter Quotation The (e.g. fictional) character, Person or Organization to whom the quotation is attributed within the containing CreativeWork.
sponsor Organization, Event, Person, Grant, CreativeWork, MedicalStudy 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.
underName Reservation, Ticket The person or organization the reservation or ticket is for.
vendor BuyAction 'vendor' is an earlier term for 'seller'.