Properties

The Thing 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*	-	schema:alternateName	alternate-names, alternate_names, alternateName, alternate-name, alternate_name
description	A description of the item.	String	-	schema:description	-
identifiers	Any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing.	(PropertyValue | String)*	-	schema:identifier	identifier
images	Images of the item.	ImageObject*	-	schema:image	image
name	The name of the item.	String	-	schema:name	-
url	The URL of the item.	String	-	schema:url	-

Related

The Thing type is related to these types:

• Parents: Entity
• Children: Brand, ContactPoint, CreativeWork, DefinedTerm, Enumeration, Grant, ListItem, Organization, Person, Product, PropertyValue

Formats

The Thing 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 Thing type is represented in:

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

Source

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