It has been publicly stated<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/schemaorg-discussion/YhF2cNGHVZ4/MmLVghR_MfMJ>that itemids are supported. However, there was/is still confusion about the relationship between itemid and schema.org/url. There was a bunch of discussion about this around a year ago (if not again more recently): http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/2011Nov/0022.html -jason On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Lin Clark <lin.w.clark@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Aaron Bradley <aaranged@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Jason, using itemid as a method of URL canonicalization would be very >> useful. > > > Agreed. > > It would be great if Google and other schema.org consumers would use > itemid. Currently, it seems url is a required property when getting Google > Rich Snippets. However, when you are looking at an event detail page, the > URL won't usually be part of the markup, which means you have to place an > invisible metadata element which contains the url property. It would be > much more convenient for tools like Drupal's microdata module if Google > would also accept itemid. > > I requested<https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!mydiscussions/webmasters/8NTiz51vc8g> this > on the Google webmasters forum, but received no response yet. > > -Lin > > -- > Lin Clark > Drupal Consultant > > lin-clark.com > twitter.com/linclark > >
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