Structured Data - Change History & Alerts

Changes in Core section:

• Added new examples for Blog and BlogPosting.
• Added URL to range of target property (used on Action types).
• Add Person as expected type to hiringOrganization.
• Add DateTime as expected type to expires.

Changes in Health-lifesci section:

• Make Drug and DietarySupplement inherit from Product.

Changes in Pending section:

• Added a checkoutPageURLTemplate property to carry template-ized information about checkout page URLs.
• Added existing properties height, width, depth, and weight for use on OfferShippingDetails to specify the shipping dimensions of a product.
• Added a new shippingOrigin property with expected values of type DefinedRegion for use on OfferShippingDetails.
• Added new property asin as a sub property of identifier with expected values of type Text or URL to represent Amazon Standard Identification Numbers. The asin property is primarily intended for use on type Product but can also be used on Offer and Demand.
• Added existing properties positiveNotes and negativeNotes for use on Product to allow the specification of (positive and negative) highlights for products sold online.

Changes to the Core section:

• Fixed incorrect longitude value for Empire State Building in example eg-0005.
• Added gameEdition for VideoGame by analogy with bookEdition.

Additionally, changes made to the 'Pending' section.

Lots of changes to the Pending section, plus two additions to the Core section:

• Added actor to PodcastSeries.
• Added location, startTime and endTime to InteractionCounter.

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Changes to the Core section:

• Fixed typo in isLiveBroadcast.
• Updated JSON-LD example in mainEntityOfPage.
• Add ineligibleRegion as expected on the MediaObject type.
• Add duration as expected on the Episode type.
• Clarified definition of schemaVersion.
• Added property ineligibleRegion to MediaObject type.

Additionally, changes made to the 'Pending' section.

Changes to the Core section:

• Fixed typo in description of ReceiveAction.
• Fixed invalid JSON-LD in example #eg-0449 on VideoGame.
  
• Removed redundant property definitions for upvoteCount & downvoteCount.
  
• Fixed invalid term links identified in Examples files.

Additionally, changes made to the 'Pending' section.

Changes to the Core section:

• Improve support for controlled taxonomies (e.g. SKOS) by supporting URLs into taxonomies for the keywords field: added URL and DefinedTerm as expected values.
• SkiResort should be a subclass of Resort (in addition to the existing SportsActivityLocation supertype).
• A parentItem of a Comment should be a Comment, not a Question.
• The supertype of Question should be Comment, by analogy with Answer.
• Changed description to reviewBody in a Review example.

Additionally, changes made to the 'Pending' section.

Changes to the Core section:

• Improvements around enumerations. Some code improvements to present subtyped Enumerations more usefully, and addition of a StatusEnumeration type to group numerous enumerations from various kinds of status-related situations.
• Fixed definition of LockerDelivery and ParcelService to correctly define them as enumeration members of DeliveryMethod.
• Defined expected type of several properties in ExercisePlan to be QuantitativeValue instead of the incorrect value of QualitativeValue.

Additionally, changes made to the 'Pending' and 'health-lifesci' sections.

No Core changes, however some changes made to the 'Pending' section.

Changes to the Core section:

• EducationalOrganization has an additional supertype of CivicStructure, clarifying that it can be used with announcementLocation.

Additionally, changes made to the 'Pending' section.

No Core changes, however some changes made to the 'Pending' section.

No Core changes, however some changes made to the 'Pending' section.

No Core changes, however some changes made to the 'Pending' section.

Changes to the Core section:

• Removed several largely un-used medical health properties whose names were inappropriately general: action, background, cause, cost, function, indication, origin, outcome, overview, phase, population, purpose, source, subtype. Note that we do not remove terms casually, but in the current case the usability consequences of keeping them in the system outweighed the benefits of retaining them, even if flagged as archived/superseded.
• Introduced a VirtualLocation type, to support description of Events whose location is online. Added eventAttendanceMode to clarify the current attendance mode of an event (online, offline or a mix). Also added a new enumeration value for eventStatus for Event: EventMovedOnline.

Additionally, changes made to the 'Pending' and 'bib' sections.

Changes to the Core section:

• Made itemOffered and offers fully inverseOf each other.
• Reworded datePosted to avoid tying this property to overly-specific usecase (i.e. it originally assumed usage only with JobPosting).
• Shortened definition of PreOrder from ItemAvailability enumeration.
• Added note to descriptions for Offer and AggregateOffer indicating default businessFunction.
• Extended rangeIncludes of datePublished to include DateTime.
• Added MusicRecording as an expected value of audio.
• Added Person and Organization to the domain for interactionStatistic.
• Added MediaGallery as a super-type of ImageGallery and VideoGallery, to allow for a mixed-media collection page type.
• Added BroadcastService to the domain for inLanguage.
• Added SportsEvent to the domain for sport.

Additionally, changes made to the 'Pending' and 'bib' sections.