Schema.org

name: Schema.org
description: Schema.org is a collaborative, community-driven project that creates and maintains a shared vocabulary for structured data on the web. Founded by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Yandex in 2011, it provides types and properties that developers and webmasters use to annotate content in formats like JSON-LD, RDFa, and Microdata, enabling search engines and applications to better understand web content. The vocabulary currently consists of 800+ Types, 1500+ Properties, and covers domains including commerce, healthcare, organizations, events, creative works, and more. The Schema.org WebAPI type provides a standardized vocabulary for describing APIs in structured data.
url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/schema-org
x-type: standard
tags:
- Schema.org
- Structured Data
- Linked Data
- JSON-LD
- Vocabulary
- SEO
- Web Standards
- RDF
- Ontology
created: '2026-05-02'
modified: '2026-05-02'
apis:
- name: Schema.org Vocabulary
  description: Schema.org is a collaborative, community-driven vocabulary for structured data on the internet. It provides a collection of shared vocabularies that webmasters and developers can use to mark up pages in ways recognized by major search engines. The vocabulary covers entities, relationships between entities, and actions. Machine-readable definitions are available in RDF/Turtle, JSON-LD, CSV, and other formats.
  humanURL: https://schema.org/docs/developers.html
  baseURL: https://schema.org
  tags:
  - Schema.org
  - Vocabulary
  - Structured Data
  - Linked Data
  - JSON-LD
  - RDF
  - Microdata
  - RDFa
  - SEO
  - Web Standards
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://schema.org/docs/developers.html
  - type: Reference
    url: https://schema.org/docs/schemas.html
  - type: DataModel
    url: https://schema.org/docs/datamodel.html
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://schema.org/docs/releases.html
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/schema-org-thing-schema.json

- name: Schema.org JSON-LD Context
  description: The Schema.org JSON-LD Context provides the canonical JSON-LD context file for the Schema.org vocabulary. This context file maps Schema.org terms to their full IRIs, enabling JSON-LD processors to correctly interpret structured data markup. Google recommends JSON-LD as the preferred format for Schema.org structured data on websites.
  humanURL: https://schema.org/docs/developers.html
  baseURL: https://schema.org
  tags:
  - JSON-LD
  - Linked Data
  - Context
  - Vocabulary
  - Structured Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://schema.org/docs/developers.html
  - type: JSON-LD Context
    url: https://schema.org/docs/jsonldcontext.json

- name: Schema.org Markup Validator
  description: The Schema.org Markup Validator tests and validates structured data markup against the Schema.org vocabulary. It supports JSON-LD, Microdata, and RDFa formats and helps ensure structured data will be correctly interpreted by search engines.
  humanURL: https://validator.schema.org/
  baseURL: https://validator.schema.org
  tags:
  - Validation
  - Structured Data
  - Testing
  - Schema
  - Markup
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://validator.schema.org/

- name: Schema.org WebAPI Type
  description: The Schema.org WebAPI type defines a Web API accessible over Web and Internet technologies. It provides standardized properties for describing APIs including documentation URL, terms of service, provider, and API entry point. The WebAPI type enables search engines and automated tools to discover and understand published APIs.
  humanURL: https://schema.org/WebAPI
  baseURL: https://schema.org
  tags:
  - WebAPI
  - API Description
  - Structured Data
  - Linked Data
  - Schema
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://schema.org/WebAPI
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/schema-org-web-api-schema.json

common:
- type: Website
  url: https://schema.org/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://schema.org/docs/documents.html
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.schema.org/
- type: Support
  url: https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/schema-org-rules.yml
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: json-ld/schema-org-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/schema-org-vocabulary.yml
maintainers:
- FN: API Evangelist
  email: [email protected]