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For a website, I need structured data for a publication content type. On this website, a publication is made of:

  • a title
  • a short description
  • a date
  • a category
  • a URL to a document

  1. What vocabulary should I use from Schema.org for such a content? (I thought about using Article)

  2. I also would like to have a reference to the type of the linked document (PDF, Word, etc.). Is it a good idea to do so, and if yes, what property could I use for that?

MrUpsidown
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  1. A good starting point is to look at http://schema.org/docs/full.html and search for a few types that might be relevant. See for example http://schema.org/PublicationIssue and http://schema.org/PublicationVolume in case they fit. Otherwise Article seems like a good type to start with. What kind of publications are you talking about?

  2. I don't think that's possible today, I don't know of any property for this specific purpose. I would recommend that you ask this request on the schema.org mailing list so that it gets considered for addition, if you think it would be useful for your use case.

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  • Yes I saw those 2 types but I don't think they really fit. What kind of publications? Well, it's a website about economy and every few days they publish some sort of reports, articles and other documents, most of the time as PDF. What I did for now is I used the `Article` and used the `url` property to reference the document. But as I said, there is a content on the website (Drupal) with a title, intro, date, etc. and a link to the document. What is unclear to me is whether the `url` should be used to reference the URL of the node itself or if it can be used to reference the linked PDF. – MrUpsidown Sep 02 '15 at 06:27