Base · Chronicle Schema

Properties

Property	Expected type	Description
Properties of Base
source one	Text	The source system that describes the entity or action, such as things-todo. Provides the source namespace in which identifiers such as sourceId are interpreted.
sourceId one	Text	The identifier assigned by the source to an entity or action, such as a record ID or message ID. Represented as text and scoped to the source's own namespace; it need not be globally unique.

Subclasses

ActionAn occurrence recorded by a source, such as reading an article, sending a message, or visiting a place.EntityA thing described by a source, such as a person, place, document, or web page.

Examples

An entity with a source ID and a URL

An Entity with a name, keyed by its source and sourceId.

{
  "@type": "Entity",
  "@key": ["@type", "source", "sourceId"],
  "source": "example-notes",
  "sourceId": "note-1042",
  "name": "Seed order for spring",
  "url": "https://notes.example.com/n/1042"
}

{
  "@context": {
    "@vocab": "https://schema.chronicle.app/",
    "doc": "https://schema.chronicle.app/docs/"
  },
  "@type": "Entity",
  "doc:key": {
    "@list": ["@type", "source", "sourceId"]
  },
  "source": "example-notes",
  "sourceId": "note-1042",
  "name": "Seed order for spring",
  "url": "https://notes.example.com/n/1042"
}

@prefix : <https://schema.chronicle.app/> .
@prefix doc: <https://schema.chronicle.app/docs/> .

[
  a :Entity;
  doc:key ("@type" "source" "sourceId");
  :source "example-notes";
  :sourceId "note-1042";
  :name "Seed order for spring";
  :url "https://notes.example.com/n/1042"
] .

URI https://schema.chronicle.app/Base