Re: publisher field for Blogposts and websites

Hi Gerald,

I agree. Another solution could be to simply accept schema:Person and
schema:Organization as publisher.

Maybe one of the people maintaining schema.org can comment on that issue!?

Best, Elias


On 07.06.2016 10:59, Bäck, Gerald wrote:
> Hi Elias,
> 
> the interesting thing is, if you put a logo field into the person entity,
> google validator claims that a logo field is not valid within the person
> entity:) The conclusion is that persons cannot be publishers, which is
> simply wrong.
> 
> My proposal is to get rid of the publisher entity as a requirement, because
> blogposts and websites still need an author which should be enough for
> private run blogs.
> 
> best wishes, Gerald
> 
> 
> 
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> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Elias Kaerle <elias.kaerle@sti2.at> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Gerald,
>>
>> this is indeed a strange behaviour. I would blame it on the way Google's
>> structured data testing tool works: it does, as far as i know, not
>> necessarily validate/verify annotations strictly the way schema.org
>> defines them, but more in a way they need the annotations for feeding
>> their Rich Snippets and Rich Cards.
>>
>> So I would assume Google doesn't care about having a schema:Person as a
>> publisher, but requires a logo (or some kind of picture) to process a
>> beautiful Rich Snippet/Rich Card out of it.
>>
>> Best, Elias
>>
>> On 07.06.2016 08:36, Bäck, Gerald wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am currently doing my first steps with JSON-LD and try it on my private
>>> blog. As far as I understand Blogposts do require a publisher field,
>> which
>>> can only be an organisation. But I think it should be possible for
>> persons
>>> to be publishers too, but I also would like to question, that blogposts
>> or
>>> even Websites do need a publisher field at all.
>>>
>>> I tested my blog with Google's Structured Data Testing Tool.
>> Interestingly
>>> enough the tool did not complain about the publisher being a Person, but
>>> that the publisher entitiy had no logo, which on the other hand is not
>>> allowed as a field for a person.
>>>
>>>
>> https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool#url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.baeck.at%2Fblog%2F2016%2F05%2F30%2FWahlmanipulationen%2F
>>>
>>> I also tested the root of my blog, which is defined as website, also with
>>> myself as a publisher person. This time the tool was fine with it.
>>>
>>>
>> https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool#url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.baeck.at%2F
>>>
>>> thx, Gerald
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
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> 

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