RE: Referencing consolidated information

Yeah, that's what I thought too and I tried that with no success before
bothering the list again.  Here's what I did:

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
<h1 itemprop="name" id="authorname">Isaac Asimov</h1>
<div itemscope itemtype=" http://schema.org/Book">
<div itemprop="author" itemref="authorname"></div>
<div itemprop="name">The Dark Ages</div>
</div> <!-- book -->
<div itemscope itemtype=" http://schema.org/Book">
<div itemprop="author" itemref="authorname"></div>
<div itemprop="name">The Best of Isaac Asimov</div>
</div> <!-- book -->
</div> <!-- person -->

The snippets tool reports an empty author for the book.

Here's a pointer to one of my smaller pages:
http://rdap02pxdu.dev.oclc.org:6251/identities/lccn-n50-53438
and a pointer to the tool with my page loaded:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Frda
p02pxdu.dev.oclc.org%3A6251%2Fidentities%2Flccn-n50-53438&view=

(Here's Asimov's page for the SF fans on the list:
http://rdap02pxdu.dev.oclc.org:6251/identities/lccn-n80-126289)

Thanks!

Ralph

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jayson Lorenzen [mailto:Jayson.Lorenzen@businesswire.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 4:02 PM
> To: LeVan,Ralph
> Cc: public-vocabs@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Referencing consolidated information
> 
> Ralph, the itemref should work in the Rich Snippets Testing Tool
> 
> 
> ...
> <body itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/NewsArticle"
>   itemid="http://www.example.com/news/20110415123/">
> 
> <div itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"
>     itemid="http://example.com/e106x27.gif">
>     <span itemprop="url">example.com</span>
> </div>
> 
> <div itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="itemscope"
> itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"
> itemref="http://example.com/e106x27.gif"></div>
> ....
> 
> 
> Produces this at the testing tool:
> 
> 
> Item
> Id:http://www.example.com/news/20110415123/
> Type: http://schema.org/newsarticle
> associatedmedia = Item( 1 )
> 
> Item
> Id:http://example.com/e106x27.gif
> Type: http://schema.org/imageobject
> url = example.com
> 
> Item 1
> Type: http://schema.org/imageobject
> Ref to item: Item( http://example.com/e106x27.gif )
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> >>>
> From: 	"LeVan,Ralph" <levan@oclc.org>
> To:	<public-vocabs@w3.org>
> Date: 	10/17/2011 12:24 PM
> Subject: 	RE: Referencing consolidated information
> 
> I've stumbled across the idref attribute and it seems to be the
solution
> to my problem.  I can see that it is ignored by the Rich Snippets
> Testing Tool.  Is there any plan to support it?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> Ralph
> 
> 
> 
> From: LeVan,Ralph
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 12:05 PM
> To: 'public-vocabs@w3.org'
> Subject: Referencing consolidated information
> 
> 
> 
> I have pages about people.  In those pages, I have information about
> books they have written.  Because all the books were written by the
same
> person, I don't display the author's name redundantly.  That means
that
> I can't provide an "author" property for the books.
> 
> 
> 
> Is there a way to reference a piece of content elsewhere on the page
as
> a property of an item?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> Ralph LeVan
> 
> Sr. Research Scientist
> 
> OCLC Research
> 
> 
> 
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