Often used in the context of category or subject classification, glossaries or dictionaries, product or creative work types, etc. Use the name property for the term being defined, use termCode. If the term has an alpha-numeric code allocated, use description to provide the definition of the term.

Properties

The DefinedTerm type has these properties:

Name	Description	Type	Inherited from	JSON-LD @id	Aliases
id	The identifier for this item.	String	Entity	schema:id	-
alternateNames	Alternate names (aliases) for the item.	String*	Thing	schema:alternateName	alternate-names, alternate_names, alternateName, alternate-name, alternate_name
description	A description of the item.	String	Thing	schema:description	-
identifiers	Any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing.	(PropertyValue | String)*	Thing	schema:identifier	identifier
images	Images of the item.	ImageObject*	Thing	schema:image	image
name	The name of the item.	String	Thing	schema:name	-
url	The URL of the item.	String	Thing	schema:url	-
termCode	A code that identifies this DefinedTerm within a DefinedTermSet	String	-	schema:termCode	term-code, term_code

Related

The DefinedTerm type is related to these types:

• Parents: Thing
• Children: none

Formats

The DefinedTerm type can be encoded (serialized) to, and/or decoded (deserialized) from, these formats:

Format	Encoding	Decoding	Support	Notes
DOM HTML	🟢 No loss
HTML	🔷 Low loss
JATS
Markdown	⚠️ High loss
Stencila Markdown	⚠️ High loss
Quarto Markdown	⚠️ High loss
MyST Markdown	⚠️ High loss
LLM Markdown	⚠️ High loss
LaTeX	🔷 Low loss	🔷 Low loss
PDF	🔷 Low loss
Plain text	⚠️ High loss
IPYNB	🔷 Low loss	🔷 Low loss
Microsoft Word DOCX	🔷 Low loss	🔷 Low loss
OpenDocument ODT	🔷 Low loss	🔷 Low loss
TeX	🔷 Low loss	🔷 Low loss
JSON	🟢 No loss	🟢 No loss
JSON+Zip	🟢 No loss	🟢 No loss
JSON5	🟢 No loss	🟢 No loss
JSON-LD	🟢 No loss	🟢 No loss
CBOR	🟢 No loss	🟢 No loss
CBOR+Zstandard	🟢 No loss	🟢 No loss
YAML	🟢 No loss	🟢 No loss
Lexical JSON	🔷 Low loss	🔷 Low loss
Koenig JSON	🔷 Low loss	🔷 Low loss
Pandoc AST	🔷 Low loss	🔷 Low loss
Directory
Stencila Web Bundle
Debug	🔷 Low loss

Bindings

The DefinedTerm type is represented in:

• JSON-LD
• JSON Schema
• Python class DefinedTerm
• Rust struct DefinedTerm
• TypeScript class DefinedTerm

Source

This documentation was generated from DefinedTerm.yaml by docs_types.rs.