Thing > CreativeWork > Article
An article, such as a news article or piece of investigative report. Newspapers and magazines have articles of many different types and this is intended to cover them all.| Property | Expected Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Properties from Thing | ||
description |
Text | A short description of the item. |
image |
URL | URL of an image of the item. |
name |
Text | The name of the item. |
url |
URL | URL of the item. |
| Properties from CreativeWork | ||
about |
Thing | The subject matter of the content. |
accountablePerson |
Person | Specifies the Person that is legally accountable for the CreativeWork. |
aggregateRating |
AggregateRating | The overall rating, based on a collection of reviews or ratings, of the item. |
alternativeHeadline |
Text | A secondary title of the CreativeWork. |
associatedMedia |
MediaObject | The media objects that encode this creative work. This property is a synonym for encodings. |
audio |
AudioObject | An embedded audio object. |
author |
Person or Organization | The author of this content. 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. |
award |
Text | An award won by this person or for this creative work. |
awards |
Text | Awards won by this person or for this creative work. (legacy spelling; see singular form, award) |
comment |
UserComments | Comments, typically from users, on this CreativeWork. |
contentLocation |
Place | The location of the content. |
contentRating |
Text | Official rating of a piece of content—for example,'MPAA PG-13'. |
contributor |
Person or Organization | A secondary contributor to the CreativeWork. |
copyrightHolder |
Person or Organization | The party holding the legal copyright to the CreativeWork. |
copyrightYear |
Number | The year during which the claimed copyright for the CreativeWork was first asserted. |
creator |
Person or Organization | The creator/author of this CreativeWork or UserComments. This is the same as the Author property for CreativeWork. |
dateCreated |
Date | The date on which the CreativeWork was created. |
dateModified |
Date | The date on which the CreativeWork was most recently modified. |
datePublished |
Date | Date of first broadcast/publication. |
discussionUrl |
URL | A link to the page containing the comments of the CreativeWork. |
editor |
Person | Specifies the Person who edited the CreativeWork. |
encoding |
MediaObject | A media object that encode this CreativeWork. |
encodings |
MediaObject | The media objects that encode this creative work (legacy spelling; see singular form, encoding). |
genre |
Text | Genre of the creative work |
headline |
Text | Headline of the article |
inLanguage |
Text | The language of the content. please use one of the language codes from the IETF BCP 47 standard. |
interactionCount |
Text | A count of a specific user interactions with this item—for example, 20 UserLikes, 5 UserComments, or 300 UserDownloads. The user interaction type should be one of the sub types of UserInteraction. |
isFamilyFriendly |
Boolean | Indicates whether this content is family friendly. |
keywords |
Text | The keywords/tags used to describe this content. |
mentions |
Thing | Indicates that the CreativeWork contains a reference to, but is not necessarily about a concept. |
offers |
Offer | An offer to sell this item—for example, an offer to sell a product, the DVD of a movie, or tickets to an event. |
provider |
Person or Organization | Specifies the Person or Organization that distributed the CreativeWork. |
publisher |
Organization | The publisher of the creative work. |
publishingPrinciples |
URL | Link to page describing the editorial principles of the organization primarily responsible for the creation of the CreativeWork. |
review |
Review | A review of the item. |
reviews |
Review | Review of the item (legacy spelling; see singular form, review). |
sourceOrganization |
Organization | The Organization on whose behalf the creator was working. |
text |
Text | The textual content of this CreativeWork. |
thumbnailUrl |
URL | A thumbnail image relevant to the Thing. |
version |
Number | The version of the CreativeWork embodied by a specified resource. |
video |
VideoObject | An embedded video object. |
| Properties from Article | ||
articleBody |
Text | The actual body of the article. |
articleSection |
Text | Articles may belong to one or more 'sections' in a magazine or newspaper, such as Sports, Lifestyle, etc. |
wordCount |
Integer | The number of words in the text of the Article. |
More specific types
This class contains derivatives of IPTC rNews properties. rNews is a data model of publishing metadata with serializations currently available for RDFa as well as HTML5 Microdata. More information about the IPTC and rNews can be found at rnews.org.
Schema Draft Version 0.9
Example 1
Original HTML:
How to Tie a Reef Knot by John Doe This article has been tweeted 1203 times and contains 78 user comments.
With Microdata:
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article"> <span itemprop="name">How to Tie a Reef Knot</span> by <span itemprop="author">John Doe</span> This article has been tweeted 1203 times and contains 78 user comments. <meta itemprop="interactionCount" content="UserTweets:1203"/> <meta itemprop="interactionCount" content="UserComments:78"/> </div>