SoftwareApplication

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A software application.

Usage: Between 10,000 and 50,000 domains

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'SoftwareApplication' is mentioned in layer: core

Property	Expected Type	Description
Properties from SoftwareApplication
`applicationCategory`	Text or URL	Type of software application, e.g. 'Game, Multimedia'.
`applicationSubCategory`	Text or URL	Subcategory of the application, e.g. 'Arcade Game'.
`applicationSuite`	Text	The name of the application suite to which the application belongs (e.g. Excel belongs to Office).
`availableOnDevice`	Text	Device required to run the application. Used in cases where a specific make/model is required to run the application. Supersedes device.
`countriesNotSupported`	Text	Countries for which the application is not supported. You can also provide the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
`countriesSupported`	Text	Countries for which the application is supported. You can also provide the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
`downloadUrl`	URL	If the file can be downloaded, URL to download the binary.
`featureList`	Text or URL	Features or modules provided by this application (and possibly required by other applications).
`fileSize`	Text	Size of the application / package (e.g. 18MB). In the absence of a unit (MB, KB etc.), KB will be assumed.
`installUrl`	URL	URL at which the app may be installed, if different from the URL of the item.
`memoryRequirements`	Text or URL	Minimum memory requirements.
`operatingSystem`	Text	Operating systems supported (Windows 7, OSX 10.6, Android 1.6).
`permissions`	Text	Permission(s) required to run the app (for example, a mobile app may require full internet access or may run only on wifi).
`processorRequirements`	Text	Processor architecture required to run the application (e.g. IA64).
`releaseNotes`	Text or URL	Description of what changed in this version.
`screenshot`	ImageObject or URL	A link to a screenshot image of the app.
`softwareAddOn`	SoftwareApplication	Additional content for a software application.
`softwareHelp`	CreativeWork	Software application help.
`softwareRequirements`	Text or URL	Component dependency requirements for application. This includes runtime environments and shared libraries that are not included in the application distribution package, but required to run the application (Examples: DirectX, Java or .NET runtime). Supersedes requirements.
`softwareVersion`	Text	Version of the software instance.
`storageRequirements`	Text or URL	Storage requirements (free space required).
`supportingData`	DataFeed	Supporting data for a SoftwareApplication.
Properties from CreativeWork
`about`	Thing	The subject matter of the content.
`aggregateRating`	AggregateRating	The overall rating, based on a collection of reviews or ratings, of the item.
`audience`	Audience	An intended audience, i.e. a group for whom something was created. Supersedes serviceAudience.
`author`	Organization or Person	The author of this content or rating. Please note that author is special in that HTML 5 provides a special mechanism for indicating authorship via the rel tag. That is equivalent to this and may be used interchangeably.
`award`	Text	An award won by or for this item. Supersedes awards.
`contentLocation`	Place	The location depicted or described in the content. For example, the location in a photograph or painting.
`contributor`	Organization or Person	A secondary contributor to the CreativeWork or Event.
`copyrightHolder`	Organization or Person	The party holding the legal copyright to the CreativeWork.
`creator`	Organization or Person	The creator/author of this CreativeWork. This is the same as the Author property for CreativeWork.
`dateCreated`	Date or DateTime	The date on which the CreativeWork was created or the item was added to a DataFeed.
`encoding`	MediaObject	A media object that encodes this CreativeWork. This property is a synonym for associatedMedia. Supersedes encodings.
`funder`	Organization or Person	A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution.
`hasPart`	CreativeWork	Indicates a CreativeWork that is (in some sense) a part of this CreativeWork. Inverse property: isPartOf.
`inLanguage`	Language or Text	The language of the content or performance or used in an action. Please use one of the language codes from the IETF BCP 47 standard. See also availableLanguage. Supersedes language.
`isBasedOn`	CreativeWork or Product or URL	A resource that was used in the creation of this resource. This term can be repeated for multiple sources. For example, http://example.com/great-multiplication-intro.html. Supersedes isBasedOnUrl.
`isPartOf`	CreativeWork	Indicates a CreativeWork that this CreativeWork is (in some sense) part of. Inverse property: hasPart.
`locationCreated`	Place	The location where the CreativeWork was created, which may not be the same as the location depicted in the CreativeWork.
`mainEntity`	Thing	Indicates the primary entity described in some page or other CreativeWork. Inverse property: mainEntityOfPage.
`mentions`	Thing	Indicates that the CreativeWork contains a reference to, but is not necessarily about a concept.
`offers`	Offer	An offer to provide this item—for example, an offer to sell a product, rent the DVD of a movie, perform a service, or give away tickets to an event.
`producer`	Organization or Person	The person or organization who produced the work (e.g. music album, movie, tv/radio series etc.).
`provider`	Organization or Person	The service provider, service operator, or service performer; the goods producer. Another party (a seller) may offer those services or goods on behalf of the provider. A provider may also serve as the seller. Supersedes carrier.
`publisher`	Organization or Person	The publisher of the creative work.
`review`	Review	A review of the item. Supersedes reviews.
`sourceOrganization`	Organization	The Organization on whose behalf the creator was working.
`spatialCoverage`	Place	The spatialCoverage of a CreativeWork indicates the place(s) which are the focus of the content. It is a subproperty of contentLocation intended primarily for more technical and detailed materials. For example with a Dataset, it indicates areas that the dataset describes: a dataset of New York weather would have spatialCoverage which was the place: the state of New York. Supersedes spatial.
`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.
`translator`	Organization or Person	Organization or person who adapts a creative work to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a target market, or that translates during some event.
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.
`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, Freebase page, or official website.
`url`	URL	URL of the item.

Instances of SoftwareApplication may appear as values for the following properties

Property	On Types	Description
`actionApplication`	EntryPoint	An application that can complete the request. Supersedes application.
`interactionService`	InteractionCounter	The WebSite or SoftwareApplication where the interactions took place.
`softwareAddOn`	SoftwareApplication	Additional content for a software application.
`targetProduct`	SoftwareSourceCode	Target Operating System / Product to which the code applies. If applies to several versions, just the product name can be used.

Available properties in extensions

For CreativeWork in the bib extension: publisherImprint

More specific Types

Examples

Example 1

Without Markup Microdata RDFa JSON-LD

A Restaurant named "Tartine Bakery" with a ViewAction as a
potentialAction, with several target endpoints including
the simple url http://example.com/player?id=123 and
full EntryPoint descriptions for Windows and iOS SoftwareApplication
apps.

This example is JSON only.

This example is JSON only.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "http://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Tartine Bakery",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "ViewAction",
    "target": [
      "http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/6/92204",
      {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "http://api.urbanspoon.com/r/6/92204",
        "contentType": "application/json+ld"
      },
      "android-app://com.urbanspoon/http/www.urbanspoon.com/r/6/92204",
      {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "urbanspoon://r/6/92204",
        "actionApplication": {
          "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
          "@id": "284708449",
          "name": "Urbanspoon iPhone & iPad App",
          "operatingSystem": "iOS"
        }
      },
      {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "urbanspoon://r/6/92204",
        "actionApplication": {
          "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
          "@id": "5b23b738-bb64-4829-9296-5bcb59bb0d2d",
          "name": "Windows Phone App",
          "operatingSystem": "Windows Phone 8"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}
</script>

Schema Version 3.1