diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 49bfcfebf5..07c1ac222d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Increment the:
 ## [Unreleased]
 
 * Support environment variables for both `OtlpGrpcExporter` and `OtlpHttpExporter` ([#983](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/983))
+* [API/SDK] Add schema_url support to both Resource and InstrumentationLibrary ([#979](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/pull/979))
 
 ## [1.0.0] 2021-09-16
 
diff --git a/api/include/opentelemetry/trace/noop.h b/api/include/opentelemetry/trace/noop.h
index 76c0fe0749..27cfaee4ad 100644
--- a/api/include/opentelemetry/trace/noop.h
+++ b/api/include/opentelemetry/trace/noop.h
@@ -103,9 +103,9 @@ class NoopTracerProvider final : public opentelemetry::trace::TracerProvider
             new opentelemetry::trace::NoopTracer)}
   {}
 
-  nostd::shared_ptr<opentelemetry::trace::Tracer> GetTracer(
-      nostd::string_view library_name,
-      nostd::string_view library_version) override
+  nostd::shared_ptr<opentelemetry::trace::Tracer> GetTracer(nostd::string_view library_name,
+                                                            nostd::string_view library_version,
+                                                            nostd::string_view schema_url) override
   {
     return tracer_;
   }
diff --git a/api/include/opentelemetry/trace/tracer_provider.h b/api/include/opentelemetry/trace/tracer_provider.h
index 04e83531c1..540a2f6b24 100644
--- a/api/include/opentelemetry/trace/tracer_provider.h
+++ b/api/include/opentelemetry/trace/tracer_provider.h
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ class TracerProvider
    * instance.
    */
   virtual nostd::shared_ptr<Tracer> GetTracer(nostd::string_view library_name,
-                                              nostd::string_view library_version = "") = 0;
+                                              nostd::string_view library_version = "",
+                                              nostd::string_view schema_url      = "") = 0;
 };
 }  // namespace trace
 OPENTELEMETRY_END_NAMESPACE
diff --git a/api/test/trace/provider_test.cc b/api/test/trace/provider_test.cc
index 49781e5e48..ca4555535c 100644
--- a/api/test/trace/provider_test.cc
+++ b/api/test/trace/provider_test.cc
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ class TestProvider : public TracerProvider
 {
   opentelemetry::nostd::shared_ptr<Tracer> GetTracer(
       opentelemetry::nostd::string_view library_name,
-      opentelemetry::nostd::string_view library_version) override
+      opentelemetry::nostd::string_view library_version,
+      opentelemetry::nostd::string_view schema_url) override
   {
     return opentelemetry::nostd::shared_ptr<Tracer>(nullptr);
   }
diff --git a/exporters/etw/include/opentelemetry/exporters/etw/etw_tracer.h b/exporters/etw/include/opentelemetry/exporters/etw/etw_tracer.h
index 47e6fa79c4..94875228ef 100644
--- a/exporters/etw/include/opentelemetry/exporters/etw/etw_tracer.h
+++ b/exporters/etw/include/opentelemetry/exporters/etw/etw_tracer.h
@@ -1131,9 +1131,11 @@ class TracerProvider : public trace::TracerProvider
    * @return
    */
   nostd::shared_ptr<trace::Tracer> GetTracer(nostd::string_view name,
-                                             nostd::string_view args = "") override
+                                             nostd::string_view args       = "",
+                                             nostd::string_view schema_url = "") override
   {
     UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER(args);
+    UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER(schema_url);
     ETWProvider::EventFormat evtFmt = config_.encoding;
     return nostd::shared_ptr<trace::Tracer>{new (std::nothrow) Tracer(*this, name, evtFmt)};
   }
diff --git a/exporters/otlp/include/opentelemetry/exporters/otlp/otlp_recordable.h b/exporters/otlp/include/opentelemetry/exporters/otlp/otlp_recordable.h
index a2e9c83ae3..dbb599880e 100644
--- a/exporters/otlp/include/opentelemetry/exporters/otlp/otlp_recordable.h
+++ b/exporters/otlp/include/opentelemetry/exporters/otlp/otlp_recordable.h
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ class OtlpRecordable final : public sdk::trace::Recordable
   /** Dynamically converts the resource of this span into a proto. */
   proto::resource::v1::Resource ProtoResource() const noexcept;
 
+  const std::string GetResourceSchemaURL() const noexcept;
+  const std::string GetInstrumentationLibrarySchemaURL() const noexcept;
+
   proto::common::v1::InstrumentationLibrary GetProtoInstrumentationLibrary() const noexcept;
 
   void SetIdentity(const opentelemetry::trace::SpanContext &span_context,
diff --git a/exporters/otlp/src/otlp_grpc_exporter.cc b/exporters/otlp/src/otlp_grpc_exporter.cc
index a9080cfa39..72b97541dc 100644
--- a/exporters/otlp/src/otlp_grpc_exporter.cc
+++ b/exporters/otlp/src/otlp_grpc_exporter.cc
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ void PopulateRequest(const nostd::span<std::unique_ptr<sdk::trace::Recordable>>
 {
   auto resource_span       = request->add_resource_spans();
   auto instrumentation_lib = resource_span->add_instrumentation_library_spans();
-  bool has_resource        = false;
+  bool first_pass          = true;
 
   for (auto &recordable : spans)
   {
@@ -35,10 +35,14 @@ void PopulateRequest(const nostd::span<std::unique_ptr<sdk::trace::Recordable>>
     *instrumentation_lib->add_spans()                       = std::move(rec->span());
     *instrumentation_lib->mutable_instrumentation_library() = rec->GetProtoInstrumentationLibrary();
 
-    if (!has_resource)
+    if (first_pass)
     {
-      *resource_span->mutable_resource() = rec->ProtoResource();
-      has_resource                       = true;
+      *instrumentation_lib->mutable_schema_url() = rec->GetInstrumentationLibrarySchemaURL();
+
+      *resource_span->mutable_resource()   = rec->ProtoResource();
+      *resource_span->mutable_schema_url() = rec->GetResourceSchemaURL();
+
+      first_pass = false;
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/exporters/otlp/src/otlp_recordable.cc b/exporters/otlp/src/otlp_recordable.cc
index 8562ecc7ae..b319a5ea9c 100644
--- a/exporters/otlp/src/otlp_recordable.cc
+++ b/exporters/otlp/src/otlp_recordable.cc
@@ -237,6 +237,28 @@ proto::resource::v1::Resource OtlpRecordable::ProtoResource() const noexcept
   return proto;
 }
 
+const std::string OtlpRecordable::GetResourceSchemaURL() const noexcept
+{
+  std::string schema_url;
+  if (resource_)
+  {
+    schema_url = resource_->GetSchemaURL();
+  }
+
+  return schema_url;
+}
+
+const std::string OtlpRecordable::GetInstrumentationLibrarySchemaURL() const noexcept
+{
+  std::string schema_url;
+  if (instrumentation_library_)
+  {
+    schema_url = instrumentation_library_->GetSchemaURL();
+  }
+
+  return schema_url;
+}
+
 proto::common::v1::InstrumentationLibrary OtlpRecordable::GetProtoInstrumentationLibrary()
     const noexcept
 {
diff --git a/exporters/otlp/test/otlp_recordable_test.cc b/exporters/otlp/test/otlp_recordable_test.cc
index bc5e76bac0..ddefe58843 100644
--- a/exporters/otlp/test/otlp_recordable_test.cc
+++ b/exporters/otlp/test/otlp_recordable_test.cc
@@ -63,6 +63,16 @@ TEST(OtlpRecordable, SetInstrumentationLibrary)
   EXPECT_EQ(proto_instr_libr.version(), inst_lib->GetVersion());
 }
 
+TEST(OtlpRecordable, SetInstrumentationLibraryWithSchemaURL)
+{
+  OtlpRecordable rec;
+  const std::string expected_schema_url{"https://opentelemetry.io/schemas/1.2.0"};
+  auto inst_lib =
+      opentelemetry::sdk::trace::InstrumentationLibrary::Create("test", "v1", expected_schema_url);
+  rec.SetInstrumentationLibrary(*inst_lib);
+  EXPECT_EQ(expected_schema_url, rec.GetInstrumentationLibrarySchemaURL());
+}
+
 TEST(OtlpRecordable, SetStartTime)
 {
   OtlpRecordable rec;
@@ -198,6 +208,19 @@ TEST(OtlpRecordable, SetResource)
   EXPECT_TRUE(found_service_name);
 }
 
+TEST(OtlpRecordable, SetResourceWithSchemaURL)
+{
+  OtlpRecordable rec;
+  const std::string service_name_key    = "service.name";
+  const std::string service_name        = "test-otlp";
+  const std::string expected_schema_url = "https://opentelemetry.io/schemas/1.2.0";
+  auto resource = opentelemetry::sdk::resource::Resource::Create({{service_name_key, service_name}},
+                                                                 expected_schema_url);
+  rec.SetResource(resource);
+
+  EXPECT_EQ(expected_schema_url, rec.GetResourceSchemaURL());
+}
+
 // Test non-int single types. Int single types are tested using templates (see IntAttributeTest)
 TEST(OtlpRecordable, SetSingleAtrribute)
 {
diff --git a/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/instrumentationlibrary/instrumentation_library.h b/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/instrumentationlibrary/instrumentation_library.h
index e4f7f78ef1..eeea6cd7aa 100644
--- a/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/instrumentationlibrary/instrumentation_library.h
+++ b/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/instrumentationlibrary/instrumentation_library.h
@@ -23,13 +23,15 @@ class InstrumentationLibrary
    * Returns a newly created InstrumentationLibrary with the specified library name and version.
    * @param name name of the instrumentation library.
    * @param version version of the instrumentation library.
+   * @param schema_url schema url of the telemetry emitted by the library.
    * @returns the newly created InstrumentationLibrary.
    */
   static nostd::unique_ptr<InstrumentationLibrary> Create(nostd::string_view name,
-                                                          nostd::string_view version = "")
+                                                          nostd::string_view version    = "",
+                                                          nostd::string_view schema_url = "")
   {
-    return nostd::unique_ptr<InstrumentationLibrary>(
-        new InstrumentationLibrary{std::string{name}, std::string{version}});
+    return nostd::unique_ptr<InstrumentationLibrary>(new InstrumentationLibrary{
+        std::string{name}, std::string{version}, std::string{schema_url}});
   }
 
   /**
@@ -39,7 +41,7 @@ class InstrumentationLibrary
    */
   bool operator==(const InstrumentationLibrary &other) const
   {
-    return equal(other.name_, other.version_);
+    return equal(other.name_, other.version_, other.schema_url_);
   }
 
   /**
@@ -47,25 +49,32 @@ class InstrumentationLibrary
    * This could be used to check version equality and avoid heap allocation.
    * @param name name of the instrumentation library to compare.
    * @param version version of the instrumentatoin library to compare.
+   * @param schema_url schema url of the telemetry emitted by the library.
    * @returns true if name and version in this instrumentation library are equal with the given name
    * and version.
    */
-  bool equal(const nostd::string_view name, const nostd::string_view version) const
+  bool equal(const nostd::string_view name,
+             const nostd::string_view version,
+             const nostd::string_view schema_url = "") const
   {
-    return this->name_ == name && this->version_ == version;
+    return this->name_ == name && this->version_ == version && this->schema_url_ == schema_url;
   }
 
   const std::string &GetName() const { return name_; }
   const std::string &GetVersion() const { return version_; }
+  const std::string &GetSchemaURL() const { return schema_url_; }
 
 private:
-  InstrumentationLibrary(nostd::string_view name, nostd::string_view version)
-      : name_(name), version_(version)
+  InstrumentationLibrary(nostd::string_view name,
+                         nostd::string_view version,
+                         nostd::string_view schema_url = "")
+      : name_(name), version_(version), schema_url_(schema_url)
   {}
 
 private:
   std::string name_;
   std::string version_;
+  std::string schema_url_;
 };
 
 }  // namespace instrumentationlibrary
diff --git a/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/resource/resource.h b/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/resource/resource.h
index 03aebcd84a..120e871ab5 100644
--- a/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/resource/resource.h
+++ b/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/resource/resource.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ class Resource
   Resource(const Resource &) = default;
 
   const ResourceAttributes &GetAttributes() const noexcept;
+  const std::string &GetSchemaURL() const noexcept;
 
   /**
    * Returns a new, merged {@link Resource} by merging the current Resource
@@ -48,7 +49,8 @@ class Resource
    * @returns the newly created Resource.
    */
 
-  static Resource Create(const ResourceAttributes &attributes);
+  static Resource Create(const ResourceAttributes &attributes,
+                         const std::string &schema_url = std::string{});
 
   /**
    * Returns an Empty resource.
@@ -69,14 +71,16 @@ class Resource
    * Users should use the Create factory method to obtain a Resource
    * instance.
    */
-  Resource(const ResourceAttributes &attributes = ResourceAttributes()) noexcept;
+  Resource(const ResourceAttributes &attributes = ResourceAttributes(),
+           const std::string &schema_url        = std::string{}) noexcept;
 
 private:
   ResourceAttributes attributes_;
+  std::string schema_url_;
 
   friend class OTELResourceDetector;
 };
 
 }  // namespace resource
 }  // namespace sdk
-OPENTELEMETRY_END_NAMESPACE
\ No newline at end of file
+OPENTELEMETRY_END_NAMESPACE
diff --git a/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/tracer_provider.h b/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/tracer_provider.h
index ec825b6e3c..9ff35e0116 100644
--- a/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/tracer_provider.h
+++ b/sdk/include/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/tracer_provider.h
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ class TracerProvider final : public opentelemetry::trace::TracerProvider
 
   opentelemetry::nostd::shared_ptr<opentelemetry::trace::Tracer> GetTracer(
       nostd::string_view library_name,
-      nostd::string_view library_version = "") noexcept override;
+      nostd::string_view library_version = "",
+      nostd::string_view schema_url      = "") noexcept override;
 
   /**
    * Attaches a span processor to list of configured processors for this tracer provider.
diff --git a/sdk/src/resource/resource.cc b/sdk/src/resource/resource.cc
index 930e8e6640..edfb49efc1 100644
--- a/sdk/src/resource/resource.cc
+++ b/sdk/src/resource/resource.cc
@@ -19,19 +19,22 @@ const std::string kTelemetrySdkVersion   = "telemetry.sdk.version";
 const std::string kServiceName           = "service.name";
 const std::string kProcessExecutableName = "process.executable.name";
 
-Resource::Resource(const ResourceAttributes &attributes) noexcept : attributes_(attributes) {}
+Resource::Resource(const ResourceAttributes &attributes, const std::string &schema_url) noexcept
+    : attributes_(attributes), schema_url_(schema_url)
+{}
 
 Resource Resource::Merge(const Resource &other) noexcept
 {
   ResourceAttributes merged_resource_attributes(other.attributes_);
   merged_resource_attributes.insert(attributes_.begin(), attributes_.end());
-  return Resource(merged_resource_attributes);
+  return Resource(merged_resource_attributes, other.schema_url_);
 }
 
-Resource Resource::Create(const ResourceAttributes &attributes)
+Resource Resource::Create(const ResourceAttributes &attributes, const std::string &schema_url)
 {
   static auto otel_resource = OTELResourceDetector().Detect();
-  auto resource = Resource::GetDefault().Merge(otel_resource).Merge(Resource(attributes));
+  auto resource =
+      Resource::GetDefault().Merge(otel_resource).Merge(Resource{attributes, schema_url});
 
   if (resource.attributes_.find(OTEL_CPP_GET_ATTR(AttrServiceName)) == resource.attributes_.end())
   {
@@ -58,7 +61,8 @@ Resource &Resource::GetDefault()
   static Resource default_resource(
       {{OTEL_CPP_GET_ATTR(AttrTelemetrySdkLanguage), "cpp"},
        {OTEL_CPP_GET_ATTR(AttrTelemetrySdkName), "opentelemetry"},
-       {OTEL_CPP_GET_ATTR(AttrTelemetrySdkVersion), OPENTELEMETRY_SDK_VERSION}});
+       {OTEL_CPP_GET_ATTR(AttrTelemetrySdkVersion), OPENTELEMETRY_SDK_VERSION}},
+      std::string{});
   return default_resource;
 }
 
@@ -67,6 +71,11 @@ const ResourceAttributes &Resource::GetAttributes() const noexcept
   return attributes_;
 }
 
+const std::string &Resource::GetSchemaURL() const noexcept
+{
+  return schema_url_;
+}
+
 }  // namespace resource
 }  // namespace sdk
 OPENTELEMETRY_END_NAMESPACE
diff --git a/sdk/src/trace/tracer_provider.cc b/sdk/src/trace/tracer_provider.cc
index 911e66c2f0..13628094e4 100644
--- a/sdk/src/trace/tracer_provider.cc
+++ b/sdk/src/trace/tracer_provider.cc
@@ -35,13 +35,15 @@ TracerProvider::TracerProvider(std::vector<std::unique_ptr<SpanProcessor>> &&pro
 
 nostd::shared_ptr<opentelemetry::trace::Tracer> TracerProvider::GetTracer(
     nostd::string_view library_name,
-    nostd::string_view library_version) noexcept
+    nostd::string_view library_version,
+    nostd::string_view schema_url) noexcept
 {
   if (library_name.data() == nullptr)
   {
+    OTEL_INTERNAL_LOG_ERROR("[TracerProvider::GetTracer] Library name is null.");
     library_name = "";
   }
-  if (library_name == "")
+  else if (library_name == "")
   {
     OTEL_INTERNAL_LOG_ERROR("[TracerProvider::GetTracer] Library name is empty.");
   }
@@ -51,13 +53,13 @@ nostd::shared_ptr<opentelemetry::trace::Tracer> TracerProvider::GetTracer(
   for (auto &tracer : tracers_)
   {
     auto &tracer_lib = tracer->GetInstrumentationLibrary();
-    if (tracer_lib.equal(library_name, library_version))
+    if (tracer_lib.equal(library_name, library_version, schema_url))
     {
       return nostd::shared_ptr<opentelemetry::trace::Tracer>{tracer};
     }
   }
 
-  auto lib = InstrumentationLibrary::Create(library_name, library_version);
+  auto lib = InstrumentationLibrary::Create(library_name, library_version, schema_url);
   tracers_.push_back(std::shared_ptr<opentelemetry::sdk::trace::Tracer>(
       new sdk::trace::Tracer(context_, std::move(lib))));
   return nostd::shared_ptr<opentelemetry::trace::Tracer>{tracers_.back()};
diff --git a/sdk/test/resource/resource_test.cc b/sdk/test/resource/resource_test.cc
index 7f00ddaf48..37abb1d0fc 100644
--- a/sdk/test/resource/resource_test.cc
+++ b/sdk/test/resource/resource_test.cc
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ class TestResource : public Resource
 
 TEST(ResourceTest, create_without_servicename)
 {
-
   ResourceAttributes expected_attributes = {
       {"service", "backend"},
       {"version", (uint32_t)1},
@@ -112,6 +111,17 @@ TEST(ResourceTest, create_with_emptyatrributes)
   }
   EXPECT_EQ(received_attributes.size(), expected_attributes.size());  // for missing service.name
 }
+
+TEST(ResourceTest, create_with_schemaurl)
+{
+  const std::string schema_url  = "https://opentelemetry.io/schemas/1.2.0";
+  ResourceAttributes attributes = {};
+  auto resource                 = Resource::Create(attributes, schema_url);
+  auto received_schema_url      = resource.GetSchemaURL();
+
+  EXPECT_EQ(received_schema_url, schema_url);
+}
+
 TEST(ResourceTest, Merge)
 {
   TestResource resource1(ResourceAttributes({{"service", "backend"}}));
diff --git a/sdk/test/trace/tracer_provider_test.cc b/sdk/test/trace/tracer_provider_test.cc
index 444b416a39..9c1c922c2c 100644
--- a/sdk/test/trace/tracer_provider_test.cc
+++ b/sdk/test/trace/tracer_provider_test.cc
@@ -26,14 +26,17 @@ TEST(TracerProvider, GetTracer)
   auto t3 = tp1.GetTracer("different", "1.0.0");
   auto t4 = tp1.GetTracer("");
   auto t5 = tp1.GetTracer(opentelemetry::nostd::string_view{});
+  auto t6 = tp1.GetTracer("different", "1.0.0", "https://opentelemetry.io/schemas/1.2.0");
   ASSERT_NE(nullptr, t1);
   ASSERT_NE(nullptr, t2);
   ASSERT_NE(nullptr, t3);
+  ASSERT_NE(nullptr, t6);
 
   // Should return the same instance each time.
   ASSERT_EQ(t1, t2);
   ASSERT_NE(t1, t3);
   ASSERT_EQ(t4, t5);
+  ASSERT_NE(t3, t6);
 
   // Should be an sdk::trace::Tracer with the processor attached.
   auto sdkTracer1 = dynamic_cast<Tracer *>(t1.get());