role

A person’s position at an organization (job title, board seat, etc.). Links a person to an organization with a time range.

Metadata	Value
Plural	roles
Subtitle field	name

Fields

Field	Type
title	string
department	string
roleType	string
startDate	datetime
endDate	datetime

Relations

Relation	Target
person	person
organization	organization

Prior art

External standards this shape draws from or aligns with. See Shape design principles for how prior art informs shape design.

• schema.org/Role + OrganizationRole — Our title = roleName; startDate/endDate match; department ≈ name of a subOrganization; person/organization = Role’s nested pattern.
• FOAF + Bio vocabularies (position) — Period-of-employment modeling. Our startDate/endDate ≈ bio:date; roleType has no FOAF peer.