Salad is a schema language for describing structured linked data documents in JSON or YAML documents. A Salad schema provides rules for preprocessing, structural validation, and link checking for documents described by a Salad schema. Salad builds on JSON-LD and the Apache Avro data serialization system, and extends Avro with features for rich data modeling such as inheritance, template specialization, object identifiers, and object references. Salad was developed to provide a bridge between the record oriented data modeling supported by Apache Avro and the Semantic Web.