SerialPublications

New class: Periodical

Thing -> CreativeWork -> Periodical

definition: A magazine, journal or newspaper published at regular intervals.

New properties: ISSN, volume, issue

Property	Expected Type	Description
issn	Text or URL	The International Standard Serial Nnumber (ISSN) of the publication.
volume	Text	The volume designation of a periodical, often a number, e.g. "23" volume 23.
issue	Text or Date	The designation of the individual issue of the journal. This is often numeric, e.g. "11" for "issue 11." It may also be a date, such as "May 1968" or "February 11, 2013." These can be expressed in ISO date format, like "2013-02-11"

Additions to schema.org/Article

Property	Expected Type	Description
publishedIn	Text or URL	The name or identifier of the publication in which the article has appeared.
articlePages	Text	The page range or start page of the article within the issue.

Note: alternately, printPage from NewsArticle could be used for the page number.

Add subclass to Periodical, incorporating ISSN, volume and issue.

Examples

Magazine (microdata)

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article">
  <span itemprop="name">As We May Think</span>
  by <span itemprop="author">Vannevar Bush</span>
  In: <span itemprop="publishedIn">The Atlantic</span>, 
  <span itemprop="issue" content="1945-07-01">July 1, 1945</span>
</div>

Magazine (RDFa)

<div vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="Article">
  <span property="name">As We May Think</span>
  by <span property="author" typeof="Person">Vannevar Bush</span>
  In: <span property="publishedIn">The Atlantic</span>, 
  <span property="issue" typeof="Date" content="1945-07-01">July 1, 1945</span>
</div>

Scholarly article (microdata)

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article">
  <span itemprop="name">A mathematical theory of communication</span>
  by <span itemprop="author">C. E. Shannon</span>
  In: <span itemprop="publishedIn">ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile
 Computing Review</span>, 
  Volume <span itemprop="volume">5</span> 
  Number <span itemprop="issue">1</span>, 
  <span itemprop="datePublished" content="2001-01">January 2001</span>. 
  Pages <span itemprop="articlePages">3 - 55</span>
  <span itemprop="publisher">ACM</span>
  <meta content="http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/584091.584093">DOI</meta>
</div>

Scholarly article (RDFa)

<div vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="Article">
  <span property="name">A mathematical theory of communication</span>
  by <span property="author" typeof="Person">C. E. Shannon</span>
  In: <span property="publishedIn">ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile
 Computing Review</span>, 
  Volume <span property="volume">5</span> 
  Number <span property="issue">1</span>, 
  <span property="datePublished" typeof="Date" content="2001-01">January 2001</span>. 
  Pages <span property="articlePages">3 - 55</span>
  <span property="publisher" typeof="Organization">ACM</span>
  <a property="url" typeof="URL" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/584091.584093">DOI</meta>
</div>