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maintainer — Schema.org Property Guide

Learn the meaning of Schema.org maintainer, which types use it and its expected value types, with official source links.

Source: Schema.org v30.1 vocabulary. Official maintainer property definition.

What does maintainer mean?

A maintainer of a [[Dataset]], software package ([[SoftwareApplication]]), or other [[Project]]. A maintainer is a [[Person]] or [[Organization]] that manages contributions to, and/or publication of, some (typically complex) artifact. It is common for distributions of software and data to be based on "upstream" sources. When [[maintainer]] is applied to a specific version of something e.g. a particular version or packaging of a [[Dataset]], it is always possible that the upstream source has a different maintainer. The [[isBasedOn]] property can be used to indicate such relationships between datasets to make the different maintenance roles clear. Similarly in the case of software, a package may have dedicated maintainers working on integration into software distributions such as Ubuntu, as well as upstream maintainers of the underlying work.

Used on types (domainIncludes)

Expected value types (rangeIncludes)

Schema.org domainIncludes and rangeIncludes are descriptive guidance, not strict validation prohibitions. Check the official reference for updates.

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