GovernmentOrganization

Canonical URL: http://schema.org/GovernmentOrganization

Thing > Organization > GovernmentOrganization

A governmental organization or agency.

Usage: Between 100 and 1000 domains

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'GovernmentOrganization' is mentioned in layer: core

Property	Expected Type	Description

Properties from Organization
`address`	PostalAddress or Text	Physical address of the item.
`aggregateRating`	AggregateRating	The overall rating, based on a collection of reviews or ratings, of the item.
`alumni`	Person	Alumni of an organization. Inverse property: alumniOf.
`areaServed`	AdministrativeArea or GeoShape or Place or Text	The geographic area where a service or offered item is provided. Supersedes serviceArea.
`award`	Text	An award won by or for this item. Supersedes awards.
`brand`	Brand or Organization	The brand(s) associated with a product or service, or the brand(s) maintained by an organization or business person.
`contactPoint`	ContactPoint	A contact point for a person or organization. Supersedes contactPoints.
`department`	Organization	A relationship between an organization and a department of that organization, also described as an organization (allowing different urls, logos, opening hours). For example: a store with a pharmacy, or a bakery with a cafe.
`dissolutionDate`	Date	The date that this organization was dissolved.
`duns`	Text	The Dun & Bradstreet DUNS number for identifying an organization or business person.
`email`	Text	Email address.
`employee`	Person	Someone working for this organization. Supersedes employees.
`event`	Event	Upcoming or past event associated with this place, organization, or action. Supersedes events.
`faxNumber`	Text	The fax number.
`founder`	Person	A person who founded this organization. Supersedes founders.
`foundingDate`	Date	The date that this organization was founded.
`foundingLocation`	Place	The place where the Organization was founded.
`funder`	Organization or Person	A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution.
`globalLocationNumber`	Text	The Global Location Number (GLN, sometimes also referred to as International Location Number or ILN) of the respective organization, person, or place. The GLN is a 13-digit number used to identify parties and physical locations.
`hasOfferCatalog`	OfferCatalog	Indicates an OfferCatalog listing for this Organization, Person, or Service.
`hasPOS`	Place	Points-of-Sales operated by the organization or person.
`isicV4`	Text	The International Standard of Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 4 code for a particular organization, business person, or place.
`legalName`	Text	The official name of the organization, e.g. the registered company name.
`leiCode`	Text	An organization identifier that uniquely identifies a legal entity as defined in ISO 17442.
`location`	Place or PostalAddress or Text	The location of for example where the event is happening, an organization is located, or where an action takes place.
`logo`	ImageObject or URL	An associated logo.
`makesOffer`	Offer	A pointer to products or services offered by the organization or person. Inverse property: offeredBy.
`member`	Organization or Person	A member of an Organization or a ProgramMembership. Organizations can be members of organizations; ProgramMembership is typically for individuals. Supersedes members, musicGroupMember. Inverse property: memberOf.
`memberOf`	Organization or ProgramMembership	An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs. Inverse property: member.
`naics`	Text	The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for a particular organization or business person.
`numberOfEmployees`	QuantitativeValue	The number of employees in an organization e.g. business.
`owns`	OwnershipInfo or Product	Products owned by the organization or person.
`parentOrganization`	Organization	The larger organization that this organization is a subOrganization of, if any. Supersedes branchOf. Inverse property: subOrganization.
`review`	Review	A review of the item. Supersedes reviews.
`seeks`	Demand	A pointer to products or services sought by the organization or person (demand).
`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.
`subOrganization`	Organization	A relationship between two organizations where the first includes the second, e.g., as a subsidiary. See also: the more specific 'department' property. Inverse property: parentOrganization.
`taxID`	Text	The Tax / Fiscal ID of the organization or person, e.g. the TIN in the US or the CIF/NIF in Spain.
`telephone`	Text	The telephone number.
`vatID`	Text	The Value-added Tax ID of the organization or person.
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.
`url`	URL	URL of the item.

Examples

Example 1

Without Markup Microdata RDFa JSON-LD

<div>
NYC Food Service Establishment Permit, issued by Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
(issued through NYC Food Service Establishment Permit Service; valid in New York for 1 year).
</div>

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GovernmentPermit">
  <span itemprop="name">NYC Food Service Establishment Permit</span>
  <div itemprop="issuedBy" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GovernmentOrganization">
    <span itemprop="name">Department of Health and Mental Hygiene"</span>
  </div>
  <div itemprop="issuedThrough" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/GovernmentService">
    <span itemprop="name">NYC Food Service Establishment Permit Service</span>
   </div>
  <div itemprop="validIn" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/AdministrativeArea">
    <span itemprop="name">New York</span>
  </div>
  <time itemprop="validFor" datetime="P1Y">1 year</time>
</div>

<div vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="GovernmentPermit">
  <span property="name">NYC Food Service Establishment Permit</span>
  <div property="issuedBy" typeof="GovernmentOrganization">
    <span property="name">Department of Health and Mental Hygiene"</span>
  </div>
  <div property="issuedThrough" typeof="GovernmentService">
    <span property="name">NYC Food Service Establishment Permit Service</span>
   </div>
  <div property="validIn" typeof="AdministrativeArea">
    <span property="name">New York</span>
  </div>
  <time property="validFor" datetime="P1Y">1 year</time>
</div>

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "http://schema.org",
  "@type": "GovernmentPermit",
  "issuedBy": {
    "@type": "GovernmentOrganization",
    "name": "Department of Health and Mental Hygiene\""
  },
  "issuedThrough": {
    "@type": "GovernmentService",
    "name": "NYC Food Service Establishment Permit Service"
  },
  "name": "NYC Food Service Establishment Permit",
  "validFor": "",
  "validIn": {
    "@type": "AdministrativeArea",
    "name": "New York"
  }
}
</script>

Example 2

Without Markup Microdata RDFa JSON-LD

This example shows a JSON-LD description of services that do not necessarily have a direct
human-oriented HTML description. It describes a GovernmentService named "Veterans Affairs Emergency Mental Health",
its operator, service area and service details, such as its Veterans Crisis Line (including  phone contact line
hours of operation, language and other details).

This example is JSON only.

This example is JSON only.

<script type='application/ld+json'>
{
  "@context": "http://schema.org",
  "@type": "GovernmentService",
  "name": "Veterans Affairs Emergency Mental Health",
  "serviceType": "Psychiatric Emergency Services",
  "operator": {
    "@type": "GovernmentOrganization",
    "name": "US Department of Veterans Affairs"
  },
  "serviceArea": {
    "@type": "AdministrativeArea",
    "name": "Massachusetts"
  },
  "audience": {
    "@type": "CivicAudience",
    "name": "Veterans"
  },
  "availableChannel": {
    "@type": "ServiceChannel",
    "name": "Urgent Care Clinic",
    "availableLanguage": {
      "@type": "Language",
      "name": "Spanish",
      "alternateName": "es"
    },
    "serviceLocation": {
      "@type": "Hospital",
      "name": "VA Boston -- West Roxbury",
      "address": {
        "@type": "PostalAddress",
        "streetAddress": "1400 VFW Parkway",
        "addressLocality": "West Roxbury",
        "addressRegion": "MA",
        "postalCode": "02132"
      }
    }
  }
}
</script>

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