Re: Referencing consolidated information

You can add the author's name using meta - the search engines might not like
it but it should work syntactically:

<p itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope id="author">
<span itemprop="name">The Author</span>
</p>

<p type="http://schema.org/Book" itemscope>
<span itemprop="name">My book title<a>
<span itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope itemprop="author">
<meta itemprop="name" content="The Author"/>
</span>
</p>

I test this with the live microdata tool and it seems to work:
http://foolip.org/microdatajs/live/

I also tried using <link> to link to the author on the same page, but that
did not work.

Peter

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:05 AM, LeVan,Ralph <levan@oclc.org> wrote:

> 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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