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core + health-lifesci (Health and Lifesciences Extension): terms relating to healthcare, medicine and the life sciences.

# Organization of Schemas

The schemas are a set of 'types', each associated with a set of properties. The types are arranged in a hierarchy.
The core vocabulary currently consists of 571 Types, 832 Properties, and 114 Enumeration values.
Browse the full hierarchy:

- One page per type
- Full list of types, shown on one page

Or you can jump directly to a commonly used type:

- Creative works: CreativeWork, Book, Movie, MusicRecording, Recipe, TVSeries ...
- Embedded non-text objects: AudioObject, ImageObject, VideoObject
- Event
- Health and medical types: notes on the health and medical types under MedicalEntity.
- Organization
- Person
- Place, LocalBusiness, Restaurant ...
- Product, Offer, AggregateOffer
- Review, AggregateRating
- Action

See also the releases page for recent updates and project history.
We also have a small set of primitive data types for numbers, text, etc. More details about the data model, etc. are available here.

## Extensions

As schema.org has grown, we have developed mechanisms for community extension as a way of adding more detailed descriptive vocabulary that builds on the schema.org core.

Hosted extensions are managed and published as part of the schema.org project, with their design often led by one of more dedicated community groups.

External extensions live elsewhere in the Web, typically managed by other organizations with their own processes and collaboration mechanisms. Please consult external documentation for full details of their vocabulary, versioning system and release history.

### Hosted Extensions

Specialized terms from hosted extensions can be used alongside core schema.org terms like Event and Person. For example in the auto extension there is a property for emissionsCO2, and in the bibliographic extension we have a property publisherImprint.

Using the extension mechanism the core vocabulary is extended by the following hosted extensions:

- auto.schema.org
- bib.schema.org
- health-lifesci.schema.org
- meta.schema.org
- pending.schema.org

Note: the 'pending' and 'meta' hosted extensions are part of schema.org's schema development process.

We use the 'pending' extension as a staging area for new schema.org terms that are under discussion and review. Implementors and publishers are cautioned that terms in the pending extension may lack consensus and that terminology and definitions could still change significantly after community and steering group review. Consumers of schema.org data who encourage use of such terms are strongly encouraged to update implementations and documentation to track any evolving changes, and to share early implementation feedback with the wider community.

The 'meta' extension is primarily for vocabulary used internally within schema.org to support technical definitions and schema.org site functionality. These terms are not intended for general usage in the public Web.

Unlike other core and extension terms, these extensions may be updated at any time without the need for a full release.

### External Extensions

The schema.org steering group does not officially approve external extensions - they are fully independent. We list here some notable extensions that extend schema.org in interesting and useful ways.

- GS1 Web Vocabulary (blog post)