Role

A Schema.org Type

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Canonical URL: https://schema.org/Role
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Represents additional information about a relationship or property. For example a Role can be used to say that a 'member' role linking some SportsTeam to a player occurred during a particular time period. Or that a Person's 'actor' role in a Movie was for some particular characterName. Such properties can be attached to a Role entity, which is then associated with the main entities using ordinary properties like 'member' or 'actor'.

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Property	Expected Type	Description
Properties from Role
`endDate`	Date or DateTime	The end date and time of the item (in ISO 8601 date format).
`roleName`	Text or URL	A role played, performed or filled by a person or organization. For example, the team of creators for a comic book might fill the roles named 'inker', 'penciller', and 'letterer'; or an athlete in a SportsTeam might play in the position named 'Quarterback'. Supersedes namedPosition.
`startDate`	Date or DateTime	The start date and time of the item (in ISO 8601 date format).
Properties from Thing
`additionalType`	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.
`alternateName`	Text	An alias for the item.
`description`	Text or TextObject	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 or Text or URL	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 or URL	An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
`mainEntityOfPage`	CreativeWork or URL	Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. Inverse property: mainEntity
`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 or Event	A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. Inverse property: about
`url`	URL	URL of the item.

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Examples

Example 1

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Example notes or example HTML without markup.

A basic Role example in JSON that
shows how to qualify the 'member' property
by adding an intermediate Role entity.

Example encoded as Microdata embedded in HTML.

<div itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Organization">
  <span itemprop="name">Cryptography Users</span>
  <div itemprop="member" itemscope
        itemtype="https://schema.org/OrganizationRole">
    <div itemprop="member" itemscope
            itemtype="https://schema.org/Person">
      <span itemprop="name">Alice</span>
    </div>
    <span itemprop="startDate">1977</span>
  </div>
</div>

Example encoded as RDFa embedded in HTML.

<div vocab="https://schema.org/" typeof="Organization">
  <span property="name">Cryptography Users</span>
  <div property="member" typeof="OrganizationRole">
    <div property="member" typeof="Person">
      <span property="name">Alice</span>
    </div>
    <span property="startDate">1977</span>
  </div>
</div>

Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Organization",
  "name": "Cryptography Users",
  "member": {
    "@type": "OrganizationRole",
    "member": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "Alice"
    },
    "startDate": "1977"
  }
}
</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.

Example 2

No Markup Microdata RDFa JSON-LD Structure

Example notes or example HTML without markup.

A JSON example of an OrganizationRole being used to qualify
the 'alumniOf' property (which is inverseOf 'alumni').

Note that we use startDate to indicate when the alumniOf
situation began, which was the date of leaving the organization.

Example encoded as Microdata embedded in HTML.

<div itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person">
    <span itemprop="name">Delia Derbyshire</span>
    <link itemprop="sameAs" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Derbyshire">
    <div itemprop="alumniOf" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/OrganizationRole">
        <div itemprop="alumniOf" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/CollegeOrUniversity">
            <span itemprop="name">University of Cambridge</span>
            <link itemprop="sameAs" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge">
        </div>
        <span itemprop="startDate">1959</span>
    </div>
</div>

Example encoded as RDFa embedded in HTML.

<div vocab="https://schema.org/" typeof="Person">
    <span property="name">Delia Derbyshire</span>
    <link property="sameAs" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Derbyshire">
    <div property="alumniOf" typeof="OrganizationRole">
        <div property="alumniOf" typeof="CollegeOrUniversity">
            <span property="name">University of Cambridge</span>
            <link property="sameAs" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge">
        </div>
        <span property="startDate">1959</span>
    </div>
</div>

Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "Delia Derbyshire",
    "sameAs": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Derbyshire",
    "alumniOf": {
        "@type": "OrganizationRole",
        "alumniOf": {
            "@type": "CollegeOrUniversity",
            "name": "University of Cambridge",
            "sameAs": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge"
        },
        "startDate": "1959"
    }
}
</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.

Example 3

No Markup Microdata RDFa JSON-LD Structure

Example notes or example HTML without markup.

A JSON example of a PerformanceRole, in which
the Role represents the acting contribution made by
Bill Murray in the film Ghostbusters. The Role entity
allows us to additional information, such as the
character's name that he played in the film.

Example encoded as Microdata embedded in HTML.

<div itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Movie">
  <span itemprop="name">Ghostbusters</span>
  <link itemprop="sameAs" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters"/>
  <div itemprop="actor" itemscope
        itemtype="https://schema.org/PerformanceRole">
    <div itemprop="actor" itemscope
            itemtype="https://schema.org/Person">
      <span itemprop="name">Bill Murray</span>
    </div>
    <span itemprop="characterName">Dr. Peter Venkman</span>
  </div>
</div>

Example encoded as RDFa embedded in HTML.

<div vocab="https://schema.org/" typeof="Movie">
  <span property="name">Ghostbusters</span>
  <link property="sameAs" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters"/>
  <div property="actor" typeof="PerformanceRole">
    <div property="actor" typeof="Person">
      <span property="name">Bill Murray</span>
    </div>
    <span property="characterName">Dr. Peter Venkman</span>
  </div>
</div>

Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Movie",
  "name": "Ghostbusters",
  "sameAs": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters",
  "actor": {
    "@type": "PerformanceRole",
    "actor": {
      "@type": "Person",
      "name": "Bill Murray"
    },
    "characterName": "Dr. Peter Venkman"
  }
}
</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.

Example 4

No Markup Microdata RDFa JSON-LD Structure

Example notes or example HTML without markup.

A JSON example of an OrganizationRole, showing information
about a 'member' of a 'SportsTeam', including time qualfiers
(when he began and ended that role).

Example encoded as Microdata embedded in HTML.

<div itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/SportsTeam">
    <span itemprop="name">San Francisco 49ers</span>
    <div itemprop="member" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/OrganizationRole">
        <div itemprop="member" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person">
            <span itemprop="name">Joe Montana</span>
        </div>
        <span itemprop="startDate">1979</span>
        <span itemprop="endDate">1992</span>
        <span itemprop="roleName">Quarterback</span>
    </div>
</div>

Example encoded as RDFa embedded in HTML.

<div vocab="https://schema.org/" typeof="SportsTeam">
    <span property="name">San Francisco 49ers</span>
    <div property="member" typeof="OrganizationRole">
        <div property="member" typeof="https://schema.org/Person">
            <span property="name">Joe Montana</span>
        </div>
        <span property="startDate">1979</span>
        <span property="endDate">1992</span>
        <span property="roleName">Quarterback</span>
    </div>
</div>

Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "SportsTeam",
  "name": "San Francisco 49ers",
  "member": {
    "@type": "OrganizationRole",
    "member": {
      "@type": "Person",
      "name": "Joe Montana"
    },
    "startDate": "1979",
    "endDate": "1992",
    "roleName": "Quarterback"
  }
}
</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.

Example 5

No Markup JSON-LD Structure

Example notes or example HTML without markup.

See JSON example.

Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org/",
  "@type": "Person",
  "name": "Albert Einstein",
  "hasOccupation": [
    {
      "@type": "Role",
      "hasOccupation": {
      "@type": "Occupation",
      "name": "Patent examiner",
        "occupationalCategory": "23-2099.00"
      },
      "startDate": "1901",
      "endDate": "1906"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Occupation",
      "name": "Professor of Physics",
      "educationRequirements": "PhD in Physics"
    }
  ]
}
</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.