- From: John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:00:48 -0400
- To: Aaron Bradley <aaranged@yahoo.com>
- Cc: Public Vocabs <public-vocabs@w3.org>
Um, technically DC doesn't have an "author" element, only "creator." See the elements list <http://bit.ly/Iji7GV> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Aaron Bradley <aaranged@yahoo.com> wrote: > Can anyone tell me what the difference is between "creator" and "author" in schema.org microdata, and under what circumstance I would ever use "creator" rather than "author"? > > I've scoured all the schema.org page pages and there's not a single code example that uses "creator" in the code. > > Here are the (infuriatingly vague, IMHO) descriptions of the two properties listed under CreativeWork: > > author > The author of this content. Please note that author is special in that HTML 5 provides a special mechanism for indicating authorship via the rel tag. That is equivalent to this and may be used interchangabely [sic]. > > creator > The creator/author of this CreativeWork or UserComments. This is the same as the Author property for CreativeWork. > > And a related CreativeWork property: > > sourceOrganization > The Organization on whose behalf the creator was working. > > No further clarity is to be gained from Google's Recipe example that actually mentions "creator", though not as a property [1]. > > Under properties recognized: > > Property - author > Description - Creator of the recipe. Can include nested Person information. > > data-vocabulary.org markup example: > By <span itemprop="author">Carol Smith</span> > > So - again - under what circumstances would one use "creator" instead of "author"? And if the answer is "they're fully interchangeable" why is "creator" part of the schema? > > By the way, I'm aware of the DublinCore dc:author element, and it's relationship to the RSS "author" element [2] (the former being less restrictive than the latter), but I can't see why the existence of dc:creator would cause the property "creator" to surface in the schema. > > > [1] http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=173379 > > [2] http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#namespace-elements-dublin-creator > > Thanks! > Aaron Bradley > > -- John S. Erickson, Ph.D. Director, Web Science Operations Tetherless World Constellation (RPI) <http://tw.rpi.edu> <olyerickson@gmail.com> Twitter & Skype: olyerickson
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