Review
Canonical URL: http://schema.org/Review
A review of an item - for example, of a restaurant, movie, or store.
Usage: Between 250,000 and 500,000 domains
Property | Expected Type | Description |
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Properties from Review | ||
itemReviewed |
Thing | The item that is being reviewed/rated. |
reviewAspect |
Text | This Review or Rating is relevant to this part or facet of the itemReviewed. |
reviewBody |
Text | The actual body of the review. |
reviewRating |
Rating | The rating given in this review. Note that reviews can themselves be rated. The reviewRating applies to rating given by the review. The aggregateRating property applies to the review itself, as a creative work. |
Properties from CreativeWork | ||
about |
Thing | The subject matter of the content. Inverse property: subjectOf. |
accessMode |
Text | The human sensory perceptual system or cognitive faculty through which a person may process or perceive information. Expected values include: auditory, tactile, textual, visual, colorDependent, chartOnVisual, chemOnVisual, diagramOnVisual, mathOnVisual, musicOnVisual, textOnVisual. |
accessModeSufficient |
Text | A list of single or combined accessModes that are sufficient to understand all the intellectual content of a resource. Expected values include: auditory, tactile, textual, visual. |
accessibilityAPI |
Text | Indicates that the resource is compatible with the referenced accessibility API (WebSchemas wiki lists possible values). |
accessibilityControl |
Text | Identifies input methods that are sufficient to fully control the described resource (WebSchemas wiki lists possible values). |
accessibilityFeature |
Text | Content features of the resource, such as accessible media, alternatives and supported enhancements for accessibility (WebSchemas wiki lists possible values). |
accessibilityHazard |
Text | A characteristic of the described resource that is physiologically dangerous to some users. Related to WCAG 2.0 guideline 2.3 (WebSchemas wiki lists possible values). |
accessibilitySummary |
Text | A human-readable summary of specific accessibility features or deficiencies, consistent with the other accessibility metadata but expressing subtleties such as "short descriptions are present but long descriptions will be needed for non-visual users" or "short descriptions are present and no long descriptions are needed." |
accountablePerson |
Person | Specifies the Person that is legally accountable for the CreativeWork. |
aggregateRating |
AggregateRating | The overall rating, based on a collection of reviews or ratings, of the item. |
alternativeHeadline |
Text | A secondary title of the CreativeWork. |
associatedMedia |
MediaObject | A media object that encodes this CreativeWork. This property is a synonym for encoding. |
audience |
Audience | An intended audience, i.e. a group for whom something was created. Supersedes serviceAudience. |
audio |
AudioObject | An embedded audio object. |
author |
Organization or Person |
The author of this content or rating. Please note that author is special in that HTML 5 provides a special mechanism for indicating authorship via the rel tag. That is equivalent to this and may be used interchangeably. |
award |
Text | An award won by or for this item. Supersedes awards. |
character |
Person | Fictional person connected with a creative work. |
citation |
CreativeWork or Text |
A citation or reference to another creative work, such as another publication, web page, scholarly article, etc. |
comment |
Comment | Comments, typically from users. |
commentCount |
Integer | The number of comments this CreativeWork (e.g. Article, Question or Answer) has received. This is most applicable to works published in Web sites with commenting system; additional comments may exist elsewhere. |
contentLocation |
Place | The location depicted or described in the content. For example, the location in a photograph or painting. |
contentRating |
Text | Official rating of a piece of content—for example,'MPAA PG-13'. |
contentReferenceTime |
DateTime | The specific time described by a creative work, for works (e.g. articles, video objects etc.) that emphasise a particular moment within an Event. |
contributor |
Organization or Person |
A secondary contributor to the CreativeWork or Event. |
copyrightHolder |
Organization or Person |
The party holding the legal copyright to the CreativeWork. |
copyrightYear |
Number | The year during which the claimed copyright for the CreativeWork was first asserted. |
creator |
Organization or Person |
The creator/author of this CreativeWork. This is the same as the Author property for CreativeWork. |
dateCreated |
Date or DateTime |
The date on which the CreativeWork was created or the item was added to a DataFeed. |
dateModified |
Date or DateTime |
The date on which the CreativeWork was most recently modified or when the item's entry was modified within a DataFeed. |
datePublished |
Date | Date of first broadcast/publication. |
discussionUrl |
URL | A link to the page containing the comments of the CreativeWork. |
editor |
Person | Specifies the Person who edited the CreativeWork. |
educationalAlignment |
AlignmentObject | An alignment to an established educational framework. |
educationalUse |
Text | The purpose of a work in the context of education; for example, 'assignment', 'group work'. |
encoding |
MediaObject | A media object that encodes this CreativeWork. This property is a synonym for associatedMedia. Supersedes encodings. |
exampleOfWork |
CreativeWork | A creative work that this work is an example/instance/realization/derivation of. Inverse property: workExample. |
expires |
Date | Date the content expires and is no longer useful or available. For example a VideoObject or NewsArticlewhose availability or relevance is time-limited, or a ClaimReview fact check whose publisher wants to indicate that it may no longer be relevant (or helpful to highlight) after some date. |
fileFormat |
Text or URL |
Media type, typically MIME format (see IANA site) of the content e.g. application/zip of a SoftwareApplication binary. In cases where a CreativeWork has several media type representations, 'encoding' can be used to indicate each MediaObject alongside particular fileFormat information. Unregistered or niche file formats can be indicated instead via the most appropriate URL, e.g. defining Web page or a Wikipedia entry. |
funder |
Organization or Person |
A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution. |
genre |
Text or URL |
Genre of the creative work, broadcast channel or group. |
hasPart |
CreativeWork | Indicates a CreativeWork that is (in some sense) a part of this CreativeWork. Inverse property: isPartOf. |
headline |
Text | Headline of the article. |
inLanguage |
Language or Text |
The language of the content or performance or used in an action. Please use one of the language codes from the IETF BCP 47 standard. See also availableLanguage. Supersedes language. |
interactionStatistic |
InteractionCounter | The number of interactions for the CreativeWork using the WebSite or SoftwareApplication. The most specific child type of InteractionCounter should be used. Supersedes interactionCount. |
interactivityType |
Text | The predominant mode of learning supported by the learning resource. Acceptable values are 'active', 'expositive', or 'mixed'. |
isAccessibleForFree |
Boolean | A flag to signal that the item, event, or place is accessible for free. Supersedes free. |
isBasedOn |
CreativeWork or Product or URL |
A resource that was used in the creation of this resource. This term can be repeated for multiple sources. For example, http://example.com/great-multiplication-intro.html. Supersedes isBasedOnUrl. |
isFamilyFriendly |
Boolean | Indicates whether this content is family friendly. |
isPartOf |
CreativeWork | Indicates a CreativeWork that this CreativeWork is (in some sense) part of. Inverse property: hasPart. |
keywords |
Text | Keywords or tags used to describe this content. Multiple entries in a keywords list are typically delimited by commas. |
learningResourceType |
Text | The predominant type or kind characterizing the learning resource. For example, 'presentation', 'handout'. |
license |
CreativeWork or URL |
A license document that applies to this content, typically indicated by URL. |
locationCreated |
Place | The location where the CreativeWork was created, which may not be the same as the location depicted in the CreativeWork. |
mainEntity |
Thing | Indicates the primary entity described in some page or other CreativeWork. Inverse property: mainEntityOfPage. |
material |
Product or Text or URL |
A material that something is made from, e.g. leather, wool, cotton, paper. |
mentions |
Thing | Indicates that the CreativeWork contains a reference to, but is not necessarily about a concept. |
offers |
Offer | An offer to provide this item—for example, an offer to sell a product, rent the DVD of a movie, perform a service, or give away tickets to an event. |
position |
Integer or Text |
The position of an item in a series or sequence of items. |
producer |
Organization or Person |
The person or organization who produced the work (e.g. music album, movie, tv/radio series etc.). |
provider |
Organization or Person |
The service provider, service operator, or service performer; the goods producer. Another party (a seller) may offer those services or goods on behalf of the provider. A provider may also serve as the seller. Supersedes carrier. |
publication |
PublicationEvent | A publication event associated with the item. |
publisher |
Organization or Person |
The publisher of the creative work. |
publisherImprint |
Organization | The publishing division which published the comic. |
publishingPrinciples |
CreativeWork or URL |
The publishingPrinciples property indicates (typically via URL) a document describing the editorial principles of an Organization (or individual e.g. a Person writing a blog) that relate to their activities as a publisher, e.g. ethics or diversity policies. When applied to a CreativeWork (e.g. NewsArticle) the principles are those of the party primarily responsible for the creation of the CreativeWork.
While such policies are most typically expressed in natural language, sometimes related information (e.g. indicating a funder) can be expressed using schema.org terminology. |
recordedAt |
Event | The Event where the CreativeWork was recorded. The CreativeWork may capture all or part of the event. Inverse property: recordedIn. |
releasedEvent |
PublicationEvent | The place and time the release was issued, expressed as a PublicationEvent. |
review |
Review | A review of the item. Supersedes reviews. |
schemaVersion |
Text or URL |
Indicates (by URL or string) a particular version of a schema used in some CreativeWork. For example, a document could declare a schemaVersion using an URL such as http://schema.org/version/2.0/ if precise indication of schema version was required by some application. |
sourceOrganization |
Organization | The Organization on whose behalf the creator was working. |
spatialCoverage |
Place | The spatialCoverage of a CreativeWork indicates the place(s) which are the focus of the content. It is a subproperty of contentLocation intended primarily for more technical and detailed materials. For example with a Dataset, it indicates areas that the dataset describes: a dataset of New York weather would have spatialCoverage which was the place: the state of New York. Supersedes spatial. |
sponsor |
Organization or Person |
A person or organization that supports a thing through a pledge, promise, or financial contribution. e.g. a sponsor of a Medical Study or a corporate sponsor of an event. |
temporalCoverage |
DateTime or Text or URL |
The temporalCoverage of a CreativeWork indicates the period that the content applies to, i.e. that it describes, either as a DateTime or as a textual string indicating a time period in ISO 8601 time interval format. In the case of a Dataset it will typically indicate the relevant time period in a precise notation (e.g. for a 2011 census dataset, the year 2011 would be written "2011/2012"). Other forms of content e.g. ScholarlyArticle, Book, TVSeries or TVEpisode may indicate their temporalCoverage in broader terms - textually or via well-known URL. Written works such as books may sometimes have precise temporal coverage too, e.g. a work set in 1939 - 1945 can be indicated in ISO 8601 interval format format via "1939/1945". Supersedes datasetTimeInterval, temporal. |
text |
Text | The textual content of this CreativeWork. |
thumbnailUrl |
URL | A thumbnail image relevant to the Thing. |
timeRequired |
Duration | Approximate or typical time it takes to work with or through this learning resource for the typical intended target audience, e.g. 'P30M', 'P1H25M'. |
translationOfWork |
CreativeWork | The work that this work has been translated from. e.g. 物种起源 is a translationOf “On the Origin of Species” Inverse property: workTranslation. |
translator |
Organization or Person |
Organization or person who adapts a creative work to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a target market, or that translates during some event. |
typicalAgeRange |
Text | The typical expected age range, e.g. '7-9', '11-'. |
version |
Number or Text |
The version of the CreativeWork embodied by a specified resource. |
video |
VideoObject | An embedded video object. |
workExample |
CreativeWork | Example/instance/realization/derivation of the concept of this creative work. eg. The paperback edition, first edition, or eBook. Inverse property: exampleOfWork. |
workTranslation |
CreativeWork | A work that is a translation of the content of this work. e.g. 西遊記 has an English workTranslation “Journey to the West”,a German workTranslation “Monkeys Pilgerfahrt” and a Vietnamese translation Tây du ký bình khảo. Inverse property: translationOfWork. |
Properties from Thing | ||
additionalType |
URL | 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. |
alternateName |
Text | An alias for the item. |
description |
Text | A description of the item. |
disambiguatingDescription |
Text | 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. |
identifier |
PropertyValue or Text or URL |
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. |
image |
ImageObject or URL |
An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject. |
mainEntityOfPage |
CreativeWork or URL |
Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. Inverse property: mainEntity. |
name |
Text | The name of the item. |
potentialAction |
Action | Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role. |
sameAs |
URL | 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. |
subjectOf |
CreativeWork or Event |
A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.. Inverse property: about. |
url |
URL | URL of the item. |
Instances of Review may appear as values for the following properties
Property | On Types | Description |
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resultReview |
ReviewAction | A sub property of result. The review that resulted in the performing of the action. |
review |
Brand or CreativeWork or Event or Offer or Organization or Place or Product or Service |
A review of the item. Supersedes reviews. |
Available properties in extensions
- For Review in the pending extension: reviewAspect
- For CreativeWork in the bib extension: publisherImprint, translationOfWork, workTranslation
- For CreativeWork in the pending extension: contentReferenceTime
- For Thing in the pending extension: subjectOf
More specific Types
More specific Types available in extensions
- <div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
- <span itemprop="name">Kenmore White 17" Microwave</span>
- <img itemprop="image" src="kenmore-microwave-17in.jpg" alt='Kenmore 17" Microwave' />
- <div itemprop="aggregateRating"
- itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating">
- Rated <span itemprop="ratingValue">3.5</span>/5
- based on <span itemprop="reviewCount">11</span> customer reviews
- </div>
- <div itemprop="offers" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">
- <!--price is 1000, a number, with locale-specific thousands separator
- and decimal mark, and the $ character is marked up with the
- machine-readable code "USD" -->
- <span itemprop="priceCurrency" content="USD">$</span><span
- itemprop="price" content="1000.00">1,000.00</span>
- <link itemprop="availability" href="http://schema.org/InStock" />In stock
- </div>
- Product description:
- <span itemprop="description">0.7 cubic feet countertop microwave.
- Has six preset cooking categories and convenience features like
- Add-A-Minute and Child Lock.</span>
- Customer reviews:
- <div itemprop="review" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Review">
- <span itemprop="name">Not a happy camper</span> -
- by <span itemprop="author">Ellie</span>,
- <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2011-04-01">April 1, 2011
- <div itemprop="reviewRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating">
- <meta itemprop="worstRating" content = "1">
- <span itemprop="ratingValue">1</span>/
- <span itemprop="bestRating">5</span>stars
- </div>
- <span itemprop="description">The lamp burned out and now I have to replace
- it. </span>
- </div>
- <div itemprop="review" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Review">
- <span itemprop="name">Value purchase</span> -
- by <span itemprop="author">Lucas</span>,
- <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2011-03-25">March 25, 2011
- <div itemprop="reviewRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating">
- <meta itemprop="worstRating" content = "1"/>
- <span itemprop="ratingValue">4</span>/
- <span itemprop="bestRating">5</span>stars
- </div>
- <span itemprop="description">Great microwave for the price. It is small and
- fits in my apartment.</span>
- </div>
- ...
- </div>
- <body itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/WebPage">
- ...
- <div itemprop="breadcrumb">
- <a href="category/books.html">Books</a> >
- <a href="category/books-literature.html">Literature & Fiction</a> >
- <a href="category/books-classics">Classics</a>
- </div>
- <div itemprop="mainEntity" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Book">
- <img itemprop="image" src="catcher-in-the-rye-book-cover.jpg"
- alt="cover art: red horse, city in background"/>
- <span itemprop="name">The Catcher in the Rye</span> -
- <link itemprop="bookFormat" href="http://schema.org/Paperback">Mass Market Paperback
- by <a itemprop="author" href="/author/jd_salinger.html">J.D. Salinger</a>
- <div itemprop="aggregateRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AggregateRating">
- <span itemprop="ratingValue">4</span> stars -
- <span itemprop="reviewCount">3077</span> reviews
- </div>
- <div itemprop="offers" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">
- Price: $<span itemprop="price">6.99</span>
- <meta itemprop="priceCurrency" content="USD" />
- <link itemprop="availability" href="http://schema.org/InStock">In Stock
- </div>
- Product details
- <span itemprop="numberOfPages">224</span> pages
- Publisher: <span itemprop="publisher">Little, Brown, and Company</span> -
- <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="1991-05-01">May 1, 1991
- Language: <span itemprop="inLanguage">English</span>
- ISBN-10: <span itemprop="isbn">0316769487</span>
- Reviews:
- <div itemprop="review" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Review">
- <span itemprop="reviewRating">5</span> stars -
- <b>"<span itemprop="name">A masterpiece of literature</span>"</b>
- by <span itemprop="author">John Doe</span>,
- Written on <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2006-05-04">May 4, 2006
- <span itemprop="reviewBody">I really enjoyed this book. It captures the essential
- challenge people face as they try make sense of their lives and grow to adulthood.</span>
- </div>
- <div itemprop="review" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Review">
- <span itemprop="reviewRating">4</span> stars -
- <b>"<span itemprop="name">A good read.</span>" </b>
- by <span itemprop="author">Bob Smith</span>,
- Written on <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2006-06-15">June 15, 2006
- <span itemprop="reviewBody">Catcher in the Rye is a fun book. It's a good book to read.</span>
- </div>
- </div>
- ...
- </body>