WebSchemas/PersonBio

This page discusses the Person type from the WebSchemas group.

Overview

Schema.org doesn't offer a property for the biography of a Person.

Core Proposal

Add a new property 'biography' to http://schema.org/Person

Discussion

• Add a biography property to http://schema.org/Person, from Stéphane Corlosquet:
  • While working on the Person type for the Drupal schema.org module, I couldn't find a property for the biography of a person. http://schema.org/Person does not list any, and 'description' does not really fit the bill: biographies are usually longer than one would expect in 'description'. Typically biographies are composed of a few paragraphs with basic HTML. A couple of examples:
    • http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001035/bio
    • http://openspring.net/scor
• Jason Ronallo
  • I'll second the request for a "biography" property for a Person. We could use a biography property for our biographical dictionary of North Carolina Architects and Builders. http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/

Existing Vocabularies

• http://vocab.org/bio/0.1/.html#biography:
  • An extended description or account of someone's life. Usage: It is expected that the value of this property is either a literal formatted with HTML markup or a pointer to an HTML document.