Enumerations are a feature of schema.org that allow publishers to select a value for a property from a restricted list of values, such as the answer to a question where the only possible responses are "yes", "no" and "maybe".

Enumerations are useful both to publishers and data consumers (like search engines) because they provide unambiguous and consistently-formed information about the thing being described.

While enumerations are an important part of schema.org, the documentation describing them is rather sparse. With this article I hope to provide a bit more information about schema.org enumerations: what they are, where to find them and how to use them.
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Tagged as: Enumerations, schema.org, Structured Data, Structured Markup

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