Re: Itemprop for person

Karen,

I think you are conflating the marking up of 'text on a web page' with
describing the 'thing' the page is about.

On the page describing a CreativeWork with a name property of "War and
Peace" you may [dependant on locale] show the user a string of characters
representing the author thus: "Leo Tolstoy" or thus: "Лев Никола́евич
Толсто́й".  In schema.org you should supply [as the author property] a URI
to a page that represents (and describes). That Person description then may
have more than one name properties (in this example at least two: "Leo
Tolstoy" and "Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й").

Such Person URIs could be direct links to places such as VIAF
<http://viaf.org/viaf/96987389>.  Alternatively they could be URIs in a
local implementation which then asserts sameAs relationships with things
like VIAF resources.

Does this mean that I am suggesting that sources like VIAF should be adding
Schema markup to their services? - Yes I am.
  


On 27/11/2012 15:58, "Karen Coyle" <kcoyle@kcoyle.net> wrote:

> This already means that libraries
> in Russia will have author Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, and in the
> English-speaking world we will have author Leo Tolstoy (or some variant
> on that). These are the same real person, but I don't think that's the
> point -- the point is that schema.org allows you to mark up your data,

Received on Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:37:52 UTC