{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://schema.govfresh.com/v1/org/post.schema.json",
  "title": "Post",
  "description": "An office that exists independently of whoever holds it, e.g. 'Mayor of Example City' or 'Councilmember, District 2'.",
  "standards": [
    "popolo"
  ],
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "@context": {},
    "@id": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "iri",
      "description": "This post's own dereferenceable identifier."
    },
    "@type": {
      "const": "Post",
      "description": "Always `Post`. A `Role` binds a person to a body for a span of time, but when nobody holds the office there is no `Role` - a `Post` is what a vacancy is a vacancy of, and what a succession runs through. Equivalent to Popolo `Post`; schema.org has no such concept, so `gs:Post` is minted as a subclass of `schema:Role`."
    },
    "roleName": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The office title as the body names it locally."
    },
    "description": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "A plain-language description of the office's responsibilities."
    },
    "identifier": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "$ref": "../_core/identifier.schema.json"
      },
      "description": "Any scheme-qualified identifiers for this post beyond its `@id`."
    },
    "memberOf": {
      "$ref": "../_core/reference.schema.json",
      "description": "The `GovernmentOrganization` the office sits in. Required - an office with no body cannot be placed."
    },
    "namedPosition": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "A named seat, e.g. 'Seat B'. Real schema.org `Role` property."
    },
    "numberedPosition": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "A numbered seat. Real schema.org `Role` property."
    },
    "representsJurisdiction": {
      "$ref": "../_core/reference.schema.json",
      "description": "For seats tied to a ward or district rather than the whole area - a `Jurisdiction` of level submunicipal or subregional."
    },
    "roleClassification": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "How the office is filled. termCode from the `RoleClassification` code list.",
      "enum": [
        "elected",
        "appointed",
        "employed",
        "exOfficio",
        "volunteer",
        "hereditary"
      ]
    },
    "termDuration": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Nominal length of one term, as an ISO 8601 duration, e.g. 'P4Y'. Nominal, not actual: a specific tenure's real dates live on the Role."
    },
    "maximumTermCount": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Term limit, where one applies."
    },
    "startDate": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date",
      "description": "When the office was created."
    },
    "endDate": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date",
      "description": "When the office was abolished. Present means it no longer exists."
    },
    "vacantSince": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date",
      "description": "Set when the office is currently unfilled. A vacancy is publishable information, not an absence of data - omitting it is indistinguishable from not having collected it."
    },
    "sourceDataset": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "iri",
      "description": "The `Dataset` this record was published as part of."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "@id",
    "@type",
    "roleName",
    "memberOf",
    "roleClassification"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": true
}