Releases

Version 26.0 - Restoring Physician subtype of MedicalBusiness.

• Issue #3467: Clarifying that PhysiciansOffice is a subtype of MedicalBusiness.

Version 25.0 - Add support for Certifications and a few smaller updates.

• Issue #3230: Added Certification to allow the specification of certifications for places, organizations, products, and persons. Compatible with gs1:CertificationDetails.
• Issue #3423: Added colorSwatch.
• Issue #2880: Added KeepProduct for ReturnMethodEnumeration.

Version 24.0 - Adding vocabulary for describing types of digital sources (in collaboration with IPTC), and clarifying subtypes of Physician.

• Issue #3420: Added IndividualPhysician, PhysiciansOffice as subtypes of Physician to clarify the longstanding ambiguity between these two different interpretations of the Physician type. Amended occupationalCategory to be applicable here and added usNPI for use with NPI identifiers in the US.
• Issue #3392: To help address situations around the responsible use of generative AI, we add a "digital source type" vocabulary based on IPTC's definitions. This consists of a property digitalSourceType, an enumeration type IPTCDigitalSourceEnumeration, and a set of 14 coded values such as TrainedAlgorithmicMediaDigitalSource mapping directly to the IPTC list.

Version 23.0 - A collection of small fixes based on publisher feedback.

• Issue #2858: Added agentInteractionStatistic to provide a way of counting interactions where the item of interest is in an "agent" rather than "object" role on the relevant Action.
• Issue #3376: Provided a clearer way to indicate non-Comment items that Comments are attached to, by documenting the use of parentItem on CreativeWork in general. Also made it more explicit that this is especially applicable to those creative works beneath Comment in the type hiearchy which are mentioned in the definition, i.e. Question and Answer.
• Issue #3389: Added Comment to the domain of sharedContent to better support link shares on replies/comments even though a lot of sites now support this.
• Issue #3390: Expanded range of uploadDate to include DateTime, correcting a longstanding bug.
• PR #3347: Improved error reporting in case the parsing of JSON-LD examples fails.
• PR #3348: Improvements to unit-testing code.
• PR #3349: Fixed all RDF comments that did not finish with a punctuation. Plus improved reporting of these.

Version 22.0

• Issue #3339: Removed unnecessary reference to geo prefix in Json-ld context file.
• PR #3339: Added example for Drug type.
• Issue #3317: Added tripOrigin.

Version 21.0 - Added PoliticalParty

• PR #3282: Added PoliticalParty as type of Organization.

Version 20.0 - Fixed a typo in maximumVirtualAttendeeCapacity.

• Issue #3264: Fixed a typo in maximumVirtualAttendeeCapacity (we had "physical" instead of "virtual").

Version 19.0 - indicating measurement techniques with defined terms.

• PR #3250: Added DefinedTerm as an expected value for measurementTechnique and measurementMethod.

Version 18.0 - Improving our ability to talk about text objects and thumbnail images for creative works.

• PR #3091: Added an explicit subtype of MediaObject for text: TextObject, and (addressing Issue #2942) made it a possible expected value for description.
• Issue #874: Noted that thumbnail is potentially applicable to any CreativeWork (implemented in #3286).

Version 17.0 - This is a small update, with small fixes.

• Issue #3314: Removed "courseLength" and added courseSchedule to properly reflect consensus of the public discussion. Added observationPeriod to accompany the recent additions around Observation.

Version 16.0 - This release includes miscellaneous fixes, some additions around courses, an update to the vocabulary around statistical observations, as well as various eCommerce additions.

• Issue #3304: Amended additionalType to anticipate textual values.
• PR #2953: Consistent formatting of ISSN text in examples.
• PR #3234: Reword definition of timeRequired to be less specific to learning resources.
• PR #3273: Added Microdata example for BlogPosting.
• PR #3065: Added an example of ESIP Science-On-Schema markup to Dataset and ResearchProject.
• PR #2859: Added PerformanceRole example actor property.
• Issue #3298: Corrected priceCurrency examples in Offer examples.
• Issue #3303: Added bed and occupancy to Accomodation and added a subtype of LodgingBusiness called VacationRental.

Changes in new area:

• issue #3281: Improvements to Course, introducing properties courseLength, totalHistoricalEnrollment, financialAidEligible, and syllabusSections, alongside side a supporting type,