DefinedTerm

CDIFManifest::Classes::DefinedTerm

Definition

Documentation

Original

Reference

schema:DefinedTerm

Definition

A word, name, acronym, phrase, etc. with a formal definition. Often used in the context of category or subject classification, glossaries or dictionaries, product or creative work types, etc. Use the name property for the term being defined, use termCode if the term has an alpha-numeric code allocated, use description to provide the definition of the term. Use the about property to specify what the term is about.

Scope

Parent class(es): Intangible (https://schema.org/Intangible).

CDIF

Definition

schema:DefinedTerm - a term from a controlled vocabulary (DefinedTermSet).

JSON serialization: In a JSON instance, a property typed as DefinedTerm may also be supplied as a plain string (the term's label) or as an object reference ({"@id": ...}) instead of a full schema:DefinedTerm object.

Diagram

Inheritance

No generalization relationships.

Attributes

Name	Type	Multiplicity	Description
identifier	XsdAnyUri	[0..1]	Documentation Original Reference schema:identifier Definition 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](/docs/datamodel.html#identifierBg) for more details. Scope Domain: Thing (https://schema.org/Thing). Range: PropertyValue (https://schema.org/PropertyValue), Text (https://schema.org/Text), URL (https://schema.org/URL). CDIF Definition @id.
termCode	string	[0..1]	Documentation Original Reference schema:termCode Definition A code that identifies this [[DefinedTerm]] within a [[DefinedTermSet]]. Scope Domain: DefinedTerm (https://schema.org/DefinedTerm). Range: Text (https://schema.org/Text). CDIF Definition A representative code for this keyword in the controlled vocabulary. Analogous to skos:Notation Scope schema:termCode.
name	string	[0..1]	Documentation Original Reference schema:name Definition The name of the item. Scope Domain: Thing (https://schema.org/Thing). Range: Text (https://schema.org/Text). CDIF Definition Filename of the component file within the archive. Scope schema:name.
inDefinedTermSet	XsdAnyUri	[0..1]	Documentation Original Reference schema:inDefinedTermSet Definition A [[DefinedTermSet]] that contains this term. Scope Domain: DefinedTerm (https://schema.org/DefinedTerm). Range: DefinedTermSet (https://schema.org/DefinedTermSet), URL (https://schema.org/URL). CDIF Definition Name for the controlled vocabulary responsible for this keyword. Scope schema:inDefinedTermSet.

Associations

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