Re: Marking up quotes that relate to known Freebase topics/people

Hi Matthias,  

Thanks for your note. In terms of an actual example, this is what I have right now - after factoring in the aspects you pointed out below. Is there anything missing/wrong from this example of a single quote, containing tag and author?

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<div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation" class="quote-wrap">
     <div class="quote">
<div data-quote="5596" class="quote_text" style="cursor:auto;">  
<dt>
<div itemprop="description">Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.</div>
</dt>  
</div>
     
     <ul class="quote-author">
      <li>            
      <dd>
                <span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemid="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/author/1/all/">
               <a itemprop="name" href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/author/1/all/" data-toggle="tooltip" title="Quotes by A Course In Miracles" data-placement="bottom">A Course In Miracles</a>
                <link itemprop="url" content="http://www.freebase.com//m/02vp3k">
                 </span>
                </dd>
      </li>      
<li><em>on</em></li>
<li>
<span itemprop="about" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing" itemid="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/tag/change/all/">
<a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/tag/change/all/" title="Quotes about change" itemprop="name">change</a>
<link itemprop="url" content="http://www.freebase.com/linkwouldgohere"></span>
</li>
        </ul>
          
      </div>  
</div>


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Warm wishes
Amit Kothari
http://quotationsbook.com


On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 06:21, Matthias Tylkowski wrote:

> Hello Amit,
> I think you are doing it correctly with using about there. If you have a freebase Url you may use it directly without wrapping it in a http://schema.org/Thing "container". If you keep the structure with using http://schema.org/Thing, I recomment to use the schema:url property instead of schema:sameAs, you may also fill in the schema:name of the http://schema.org/Thing you are talking about.
>  
> Otherwise you can use anything that is derived from http://schema.org/Thing in the schema:about property. So when the quote is from a book you can use http://schema.org/Book instead of the most general case http://schema.org/Thing.
>  
> Regards
> Matthias Tylkowski
> Technischer Leiter Binarypark UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Erich-Weinert-Str. 1 03046 Cottbus Tel +49 (0)355 692931 Fax +49 (0)355 694171 info@binarypark.org (mailto:info@binarypark.org) http://binarypark.org Am 26.02.2014 13:51, schrieb Quotations Book:
> > Hi all,  
> >  
> > I’ve implemented quotations markup some time ago, but I have various problems.  
> >  
> > We’ve invested hundreds of man hours per week tracking precise sources for quotes, which look like this:  
> > http://quotationsbook.com/quote/652309/
> > (see the text in bold under the quote).  
> >  
> > Is there some specific markup to add “source”? Source can be quite variable e.g. a book, a speech, something spoken in the media in a known public appearance, etc. Please note the ambiguity possible i.e. it could be said in response to something by someone in a certain context so this isn’t a straight entity match.  
> >  
> > There is a problem with items appearing empty within the structured data markup testing tool:  
> > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14563542/Screen%20Shot%202014-02-26%20at%2009.46.38.png
> > for all URL’s for example:
> > http://quotationsbook.com/quote/194/
> > Does my markup need amendment?
> >  
> > We are currently working on matching our quotes with Google Books if we can, showing books in context of where the quote appears.   
> >  
> > Another problem I had was author markup - I have added markup pointing to our Google Plus entity (https://plus.google.com/+Quotationsbook/), but Webmaster Central doesn’t show this up, nor do search results. Is there an authorship markup error on all my pages? The structured data testing tool doesn’t show a problem, yet on this view, there is no authorship stated:  
> > https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/labs-author-stats-1
> > (the above question is more Google-specific, for which I apologise). I suppose the difference between author and publisher here needs clarification.
> >  
> > Warm wishes  
> > Amit Kothari
> > Chief Potato
> > http://quotationsbook.com
> >  
> >  
> > On Wednesday, 15 January 2014 at 17:29, Thad Guidry wrote:
> >  
> > >  
> > >  
> > >  
> > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Stéphane Corlosquet <scorlosquet@gmail.com (mailto:scorlosquet@gmail.com)> wrote:
> > > >  
> > > >  
> > > >  
> > > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Shawn Simister <simister@google.com (mailto:simister@google.com)> wrote:
> > > > > Hey Amit,  
> > > > >  
> > > > > Thanks for putting in the hard work to align your content with Freebase. Fo what you're trying to accomplish you would use your own identifiers for the item IDs and then use the sameAs (http://schema.org/sameAs) property to align them with Freebase. Here's how I would mark up a quotation (once the type is part of schema.org (http://schema.org)) using Microdata:  
> > > > >  
> > > > > <div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation">  
> > > > > <p itemprop="description">Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.</p>
> > > > > <span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemid="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/author/7349/">
> > > > > <a itemprop="name" href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/author/7349/">Mark Twain</a>
> > > > >  
> > > > >  
> > > >  
> > > >  
> > > > Beware that the itemprop in an 'a' element will take on the href attribute as the property value. If you want to annotate the name of the person/author, you should use a span instead of 'a', or if you really want a link, add a span inside the a element, like this:  
> > > > <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/author/7349/"><span itemprop="name">Mark Twain</span></a>
> > > >  
> > > > Steph.  
> > > >  
> > >  
> > > I would use that link... "Things NOT Strings" is the right way for Linked Data efforts.  And then author key 7349, will thus be useful for someone else linking back to it !  
> > >   
> > >  
> > > --  
> > > -Thad  
> > > +ThadGuidry (https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry)
> > > Thad on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/)
> >  
>