Person DRAFT Profile

Version: 0.1-DRAFT-2018_03_14 (14 March 2018)

A specification for describing people in life sciences.

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Schema.org hierarchy

This Profile fits into the schema.org hierarchy as follows:

Thing > Person

Description

The Life Science Person specification provides a way to describe bioscience people on the World Wide Web. It defines a set of metadata and vocabularies, built on top of existing technologies and standards, that can be used to represent the profile information of people in Web pages and applications. The goal of the specification is to make it easier to discover, life science profile information.

Latest profiles

Latest release: none

Latest draft: 0.2-DRAFT-2019_07_19

Previous profiles

Previous version: none

Contributors

The following people have been involved in the creation of this specification document. They are all members of the People group.

Group Leader(s)

Niall Beard

Other team members

Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran

Group	Use Cases	Cross Walk	Task & Issues	Examples	Live Deploys
People

Key to specification table

Green properties/types are proposed by Bioschemas, or indicate proposed changes by Bioschemas to Schema.org
Red properties/types exist in the core of Schema.org
Blue properties/types exist in the pending area of Schema.org
Black properties/types are reused from external vocabularies/ontologies

CD = Cardinality

Mapping in progress.

Property	Expected Type	Description	CD	Controlled Vocabulary
Marginality: Minimum
description	Text	Schema: A description of the item.	MANY
mainEntityOfPage	CreativeWork URL	Schema: Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.	MANY
name	Text	Schema: The name of the item.	ONE
Marginality: Recommended
email	ContactPoint Organization Person	Schema: Email address.	ONE
expertise	URL	Bioschemas: A description of the topic which this person has the most expertise in.	ONE	EDAM:Topic
homeLocation	ContactPoint Place	Schema: A contact location for a person's residence.	ONE
image	ImageObject URL	Schema: An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.	ONE
keywords	Text	Schema: Keywords or tags used to describe this content. Multiple entries in a keywords list are typically delimited by commas. Bioschemas: Keywords to describe the person. These should be single words or short phrases that relate to a person.	ONE
memberOf	Organization ProgramMembership	Schema: An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs.	MANY
orcId	Text URL	Schema: The url or ID of the person's ORCID (see: http://orcid.org).	MANY
worksFor	Organization	Schema: Organizations that the person works for.	MANY
Marginality: Optional
advisor	Person	Bioschemas: A person who has been an educational, professional or personal advisor to the person.	MANY
curriculumVitae	Text URL	Bioschemas: A link or body of text describing the person's notable achievements, employment history, and contact details.	ONE
experience	Text	Bioschemas: A textual description of the professional experiences a person has acquired.	MANY
funding	Text	Bioschemas: Textual description of current or past funding this person has acquired.	MANY
interest	Text URL	Bioschemas: Any interests held by the person. These should be single words or phrases that relate to a person.	MANY
internationalActivities	Text	Bioschemas: Global connections related to teaching and scholarly work in the past 3 years.	MANY
journalReferee	CreativeWork	Bioschemas: Journals this person is a referee of.	MANY
language	Language	Schema: A sub property of instrument. The language used on this action. Bioschemas: The languages spoken by the person.	MANY
works	CreativeWork Text	Bioschemas: All or notable publications, presentations, training materials, research outputs or any other body of work attributed to this person.	MANY