LikeAction - Schema.org Type

LikeAction - Schema.org Type
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LikeAction
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Thing
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Canonical URL: https://schema.org/LikeAction
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The act of expressing a positive sentiment about the object. An agent likes an object (a proposition, topic or theme) with participants.
Property
Expected Type
Description
Properties from
Action
actionProcess
HowTo
Description of the process by which the action was performed.
actionStatus
ActionStatusType
Indicates the current disposition of the Action.
agent
Organization
or
Person
The direct performer or driver of the action (animate or inanimate). E.g.
John
wrote a book.
endTime
DateTime
or
Time
The endTime of something. For a reserved event or service (e.g. FoodEstablishmentReservation), the time that it is expected to end. For actions that span a period of time, when the action was performed. E.g. John wrote a book from January to
December
. For media, including audio and video, it's the time offset of the end of a clip within a larger file.
Note that Event uses startDate/endDate instead of startTime/endTime, even when describing dates with times. This situation may be clarified in future revisions.
error
Thing
For failed actions, more information on the cause of the failure. Consider using the Error type.
instrument
Thing
The object that helped the agent perform the action. E.g. John wrote a book with
a pen
location
Place
or
PostalAddress
or
Text
or
VirtualLocation
The location of, for example, where an event is happening, where an organization is located, or where an action takes place.
object
Thing
The object upon which the action is carried out, whose state is kept intact or changed. Also known as the semantic roles patient, affected or undergoer (which change their state) or theme (which doesn't). E.g. John read
a book
participant
Organization
or
Person
Other co-agents that participated in the action indirectly. E.g. John wrote a book with
Steve
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
result
Thing
The result produced in the action. E.g. John wrote
a book
startTime
DateTime
or
Time
The startTime of something. For a reserved event or service (e.g. FoodEstablishmentReservation), the time that it is expected to start. For actions that span a period of time, when the action was performed. E.g. John wrote a book from
January
to December. For media, including audio and video, it's the time offset of the start of a clip within a larger file.
Note that Event uses startDate/endDate instead of startTime/endTime, even when describing dates with times. This situation may be clarified in future revisions.
target
EntryPoint
or
URL
Indicates a target EntryPoint, or url, for an Action.
Properties from
Thing
additionalType
Text
or
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. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the
use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org
style guide
alternateName
Text
An alias for the item.
description
Text
or
TextObject
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.
owner
Organization
or
Person
A person or organization who owns this Thing.
Inverse property:
owns
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.
Examples
Example 1
Copied
No Markup
JSON-LD
Structure
Example notes or example HTML without markup.
John and Steve like an article.
Example encoded as
JSON-LD
in a HTML script tag.


Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "LikeAction",
"agent": {
"@type": "Person",
"name": "John"
},
"object": {
"@type": "ScholarlyArticle",
"name": "We found out that P = NP!"
},
"participant": {
"@type": "Person",
"name": "Steve"
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