# DigitalDocumentPermission - Schema.org Type

> Source: https://schema.org/DigitalDocumentPermission
> Extracted: 2026-02-16T16:12:01.311Z

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A permission for a particular person or group to access a particular file.

Property

Expected Type

Description

Properties from [DigitalDocumentPermission](https://schema.org/DigitalDocumentPermission "DigitalDocumentPermission")

`[grantee](https://schema.org/grantee "grantee")`

[Audience](https://schema.org/Audience "Audience")  or  
[ContactPoint](https://schema.org/ContactPoint "ContactPoint")  or  
[Organization](https://schema.org/Organization "Organization")  or  
[Person](https://schema.org/Person "Person")

The person, organization, contact point, or audience that has been granted this permission.

`[permissionType](https://schema.org/permissionType "permissionType")`

[DigitalDocumentPermissionType](https://schema.org/DigitalDocumentPermissionType "DigitalDocumentPermissionType")

The type of permission granted the person, organization, or audience.

Properties from [Thing](https://schema.org/Thing "Thing")

`[additionalType](https://schema.org/additionalType "additionalType")`

[Text](https://schema.org/Text "Text")  or  
[URL](https://schema.org/URL "URL")

An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org [style guide](https://schema.org/docs/styleguide.html).

`[alternateName](https://schema.org/alternateName "alternateName")`

[Text](https://schema.org/Text "Text")

An alias for the item.

`[description](https://schema.org/description "description")`

[Text](https://schema.org/Text "Text")  or  
[TextObject](https://schema.org/TextObject "TextObject")

A description of the item.

`[disambiguatingDescription](https://schema.org/disambiguatingDescription "disambiguatingDescription")`

[Text](https://schema.org/Text "Text")

A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.

`[identifier](https://schema.org/identifier "identifier")`

[PropertyValue](https://schema.org/PropertyValue "PropertyValue")  or  
[Text](https://schema.org/Text "Text")  or  
[URL](https://schema.org/URL "URL")

The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of [Thing](https://schema.org/Thing), such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See [background notes](https://schema.org/docs/datamodel.html#identifierBg) for more details.

`[image](https://schema.org/image "image")`

[ImageObject](https://schema.org/ImageObject "ImageObject")  or  
[URL](https://schema.org/URL "URL")

An image of the item. This can be a [URL](https://schema.org/URL) or a fully described [ImageObject](https://schema.org/ImageObject).

`[mainEntityOfPage](https://schema.org/mainEntityOfPage "mainEntityOfPage")`

[CreativeWork](https://schema.org/CreativeWork "CreativeWork")  or  
[URL](https://schema.org/URL "URL")

Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See [background notes](https://schema.org/docs/datamodel.html#mainEntityBackground) for details.  
Inverse property: [mainEntity](https://schema.org/mainEntity "mainEntity")

`[name](https://schema.org/name "name")`

[Text](https://schema.org/Text "Text")

The name of the item.

`[owner](https://schema.org/owner "owner")`

[Organization](https://schema.org/Organization "Organization")  or  
[Person](https://schema.org/Person "Person")

A person or organization who owns this Thing.  
Inverse property: [owns](https://schema.org/owns "owns")

`[potentialAction](https://schema.org/potentialAction "potentialAction")`

[Action](https://schema.org/Action "Action")

Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.

`[sameAs](https://schema.org/sameAs "sameAs")`

[URL](https://schema.org/URL "URL")

URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.

`[subjectOf](https://schema.org/subjectOf "subjectOf")`

[CreativeWork](https://schema.org/CreativeWork "CreativeWork")  or  
[Event](https://schema.org/Event "Event")

A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.  
Inverse property: [about](https://schema.org/about "about")

`[url](https://schema.org/url "url")`

[URL](https://schema.org/URL "URL")

URL of the item.

  

Property

On Types

Description

[hasDigitalDocumentPermission](https://schema.org/hasDigitalDocumentPermission "hasDigitalDocumentPermission")

[DigitalDocument](https://schema.org/DigitalDocument "DigitalDocument")

A permission related to the access to this document (e.g. permission to read or write an electronic document). For a public document, specify a grantee with an Audience with audienceType equal to "public".

### Examples

Example notes or example HTML without markup.

A digital document everyone can read, but only one person can edit.

Example encoded as [JSON-LD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON-LD) in a HTML script tag.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@type": "DigitalDocument",
  "name": "New schema.org types proposal",
  "author": "Alice",
  "hasDigitalDocumentPermission": \[
    {
      "@type": "DigitalDocumentPermission",
      "permissionType": "https://schema.org/WritePermission",
      "grantee": {
        "@type": "Person",
        "email": "alice@example.com"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "DigitalDocumentPermission",
      "permissionType": "https://schema.org/ReadPermission",
      "grantee": {
        "@type": "Audience",
        "audienceType": "public"
      }
    }
  \]
}
</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.