Re: creator and author syntax question

Thanks, Dan and Richard.

--LS

On 2/17/21 4:12 AM, Dan Brickley wrote:
>
> Thinking about this specific case, where the only roleName in the 
> article is "coauthor", I would simplify and express everything using a 
> simple "creator" property.
>
> Dan
>
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 at 09:11, Richard Wallis 
> <richard.wallis@dataliberate.com 
> <mailto:richard.wallis@dataliberate.com>> wrote:
>
>     What Dan said...
>
>     Plus: The Google Rich Results Test Tool is only testing for the
>     attributes that are significant to their [Google's] implementation
>     of Rich Results in their services.  It is not a general Schema.org
>     test tool such as the Structured Data Linter
>     <http://linter.structured-data.org/>, JSON-LD Playground
>     <https://json-ld.org/playground/>, etc.
>
>     ~Richard.
>
>
>     Richard Wallis
>     Founder, Data Liberate
>     http://dataliberate.com <http://dataliberate.com>
>     Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwallis
>     <http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwallis>
>     Twitter: @rjw
>
>
>
>     On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 at 09:02, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com
>     <mailto:danbri@google.com>> wrote:
>
>         I believe this is because Google (alongside many others)
>         hasn't much support for the Role construction. In retrospect I
>         believe it was too general - providing a cross-domain modeling
>         structure as well as vocabulary to describe contributor roles,
>         it ended up not doing either very well. The markup probably
>         looks OK for "author" because it isn't a property being
>         checked for, since "creator" is generally the more widely
>         adopted term. I started a thread on Twitter earlier this week
>         exploring ways of improving our (Schema.org's) coverage of
>         contributor roles, including connection to related initiatives
>         like https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/credit
>         <https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/credit> and others.
>         https://twitter.com/danbri/status/1361197025065320449
>         <https://twitter.com/danbri/status/1361197025065320449>
>
>         Dan
>
>         On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 at 08:48, Lulin Song
>         <song@ldeo.columbia.edu <mailto:song@ldeo.columbia.edu>> wrote:
>
>             Hi schema.org <http://schema.org>,
>
>             I am working on JSON-LD content for 'Dataset' type. The
>             dataset has multiple authors. I used Google Rich Results
>             Test Tool.
>             https://search.google.com/test/rich-results?utm_campaign=sdtt&utm_medium=message
>             <https://search.google.com/test/rich-results?utm_campaign=sdtt&utm_medium=message>
>
>             The following 'author' syntax is correct according the
>             test tool. But if I replaced 'author' with 'creator', the
>             tool said 'Invalid object type for field "creator". I read
>             through schema.org <http://schema.org> documents, it seems
>             both should work. Can someone explain why it failed on
>             'creator'?
>
>             "author": [
>             {
>             "@type": "Role", "roleName": "Lead Author",
>             "author": [
>             {
>             "@type": "Person",
>             "name": "C E Nehru",
>             "givenName": "C",
>             "familyName": "Nehru"
>             }
>             ]
>             },
>             {
>             "@type": "Role", "roleName": "Coauthor",
>             "author": [
>             {
>             "@type": "Person",
>             "name": "Martin Prinz",
>             "givenName": "Martin",
>             "familyName": "Prinz"
>             },
>             {
>             "@type": "Person",
>             "name": "Eric Dowty",
>             "givenName": "Eric",
>             "familyName": "Dowty"
>             },
>             {
>             "@type": "Person",
>             "name": "Klaus Keil",
>             "givenName": "Klaus",
>             "familyName": "Keil"
>             }
>             ]
>             }
>             ],
>
>             Thanks,
>
>             Lulin Song
>             Geoinformatics
>             Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
>             Columbia University
>
>