Schema doesn't recognise productionCompany

Question

I'm using Schema to format an address like so:

<div itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/productionCompany">
    <span itemprop="name">Production Company Name</span>
    <div itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress">
        <span itemprop="streetAddress">Address goes here</span>
        <span itemprop="addressRegion">London</span>,
        <span itemprop="postalCode">N1 000</span>,
    </div>
Phone: <span itemprop="telephone">0203000000</span>
Fax: <span itemprop="faxNumber">0203000001</span>
</div>

Using Google's structured data testing tool, I'm getting the following validation error:

@type productionCompany (The type productionCompany is not a type known to Google.)

This is strange, because I've found the company type here. Any ideas why I'm getting this error?

Answer 1

productionCompany is a property, not a type.

In Schema.org, a property always starts with a lowercase letter, while types always start with an uppercase letter.

It seems that you want to say something about a company. In that case, you should use Organization or one of its sub-types, e.g., LocalBusiness:

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/LocalBusiness">
  <!-- … -->
</div>

The productionCompany property takes Organization (or one of its sub-types) as value. So you could for example say that a certain Movie was produced by this company:

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Movie">
  <div itemprop="productionCompany" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/LocalBusiness">
    <!-- … -->
  </div>
</div>