Person
Schema.org definition: A person (alive, dead, undead, or fictional).
Subclass Of: http://schema.org/Thing
Adding people
Here is a preliminary document (French only) on a template to add People.
Another way is to add a performing arts person in Wikidata and fill in the following required fields. Please add as much data as possible to help cases that require disambiguation. We recommend linking social media profiles, and external global IDs like ISNI, but these are not mandatory.
- Given name
- Family name
- Occupation
- actor
- stage director
- musician
- Instance of human
- Gender
- male
- female
- intersex
- transgender female
- transgender male
- non-binary
- Date of birth
Structured data templates
This evolving document contains our latest structured data templates for artists. Aside from the standard JSON-LD format, there are also three different templates in Microdata format.
Le document est disponible également en français.
ShEx Validator
Artsdata uses ShEx to validate data for import. If the data passes the ShEx validation, the person will automatically be added to Artsdata.ca in a couple of days.
Test using this Online Validator
Properties
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| sameAs |
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.
from class http://schema.org/Thing |
| alternateName |
An alias for the item.
from class http://schema.org/Thing |
| description |
A description of the item.
from class http://schema.org/Thing |
| name |
The name of the item.
from class http://schema.org/Thing |
| url |
URL of the item.
from class http://schema.org/Thing |
| image |
An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
from class http://schema.org/Thing |
| identifier |
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.
from class http://schema.org/Thing |
| additionalType |
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. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally.
from class http://schema.org/Thing |
| disambiguatingDescription |
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.
from class http://schema.org/Thing |
| mainEntityOfPage |
Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.
from class http://schema.org/Thing |
| address |
Physical address of the item.
from class http://schema.org/Person |
| hasOccupation |
The Person's occupation. For past professions, use Role for expressing dates.
from class http://schema.org/Person |