Salad is a schema language for describing JSON or YAML structured linked data documents. Salad is based originally on JSON-LD and the Apache Avro data serialization system.

Salad schema describes rules for preprocessing, structural validation, and link checking for documents described by a Salad schema. Salad features for rich data modeling such as inheritance, template specialization, object identifiers, object references, documentation generation, and transformation to RDF. Salad provides a bridge between document and record oriented data modeling and the Semantic Web.