ObservationClass

Instances of the class Observation are used to specify observations about an entity (which may or may not be an instance of a StatisticalPopulation), at a particular time. The principal properties of an Observation are observedNode, measuredProperty, measuredValue (or median, etc.) and observationDate (measuredProperty properties can, but need not always, be W3C RDF Data Cube "measure properties", as in the lifeExpectancy example). See also StatisticalPopulation, and the data and datasets overview for more details.
Equivalent Classes
schema:Observation
Mappings
Additional Types
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Industries Associated With Observation
Directly associated by an Industry
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Inherited
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Brands Associated With Observation
Inherited through an Industry
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Directly associated by a brand
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Inherited through a parent brand
Properties from Observation
PropertyExpected TypeTMPC Mappingdescription
marginOfError
A marginOfError for an Observation.
measuredProperty
The measuredProperty of an Observation, either a schema.org property, a property from other RDF-compatible systems, e.g. W3C RDF Data Cube, or schema.org extensions such as GS1's.
measuredValue
The measuredValue of an Observation.
observationDate
DateTime
The observationDate of an Observation.
observedNode
The observedNode of an Observation, often a StatisticalPopulation.
Properties from Thing
PropertyExpected TypeTMPC Mappingdescription
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
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
An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
mainEntityOfPage
Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.
name
Text
The name of the item.
potentialAction
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
A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.
url
URL
URL of the item.
Instances of Observation may appear with as a value for the following properties
PropertyOn TypesTMPC Mappingdescription
diseaseSpreadStatistics
Statistical information about the spread of a disease, either as WebContent, or described directly as a Dataset, or the specific Observations in the dataset. When a WebContent URL is provided, the page indicated might also contain more such markup.
Superseded by
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Alternate Name
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