Re: Marking up quotes that relate to known Freebase topics/people

Hi all,  

I’ve implemented quotations markup some time ago, but I have various problems.

We’ve invested hundreds of man hours per week tracking precise sources for quotes, which look like this:
http://quotationsbook.com/quote/652309/
(see the text in bold under the quote).  

Is there some specific markup to add “source”? Source can be quite variable e.g. a book, a speech, something spoken in the media in a known public appearance, etc. Please note the ambiguity possible i.e. it could be said in response to something by someone in a certain context so this isn’t a straight entity match.

There is a problem with items appearing empty within the structured data markup testing tool:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14563542/Screen%20Shot%202014-02-26%20at%2009.46.38.png
for all URL’s for example:
http://quotationsbook.com/quote/194/
Does my markup need amendment?

We are currently working on matching our quotes with Google Books if we can, showing books in context of where the quote appears.  

Another problem I had was author markup - I have added markup pointing to our Google Plus entity (https://plus.google.com/+Quotationsbook/), but Webmaster Central doesn’t show this up, nor do search results. Is there an authorship markup error on all my pages? The structured data testing tool doesn’t show a problem, yet on this view, there is no authorship stated:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/labs-author-stats-1
(the above question is more Google-specific, for which I apologise). I suppose the difference between author and publisher here needs clarification.

Warm wishes
Amit Kothari
Chief Potato
http://quotationsbook.com


On Wednesday, 15 January 2014 at 17:29, Thad Guidry wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Stéphane Corlosquet <scorlosquet@gmail.com (mailto:scorlosquet@gmail.com)> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Shawn Simister <simister@google.com (mailto:simister@google.com)> wrote:
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> > > Thanks for putting in the hard work to align your content with Freebase. Fo what you're trying to accomplish you would use your own identifiers for the item IDs and then use the sameAs (http://schema.org/sameAs) property to align them with Freebase. Here's how I would mark up a quotation (once the type is part of schema.org (http://schema.org)) using Microdata:  
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> > > <div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation">
> > > <p itemprop="description">Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.</p>
> > > <span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemid="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/author/7349/">
> > > <a itemprop="name" href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/author/7349/">Mark Twain</a>
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> > Beware that the itemprop in an 'a' element will take on the href attribute as the property value. If you want to annotate the name of the person/author, you should use a span instead of 'a', or if you really want a link, add a span inside the a element, like this:  
> > <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/author/7349/"><span itemprop="name">Mark Twain</span></a>
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> I would use that link... "Things NOT Strings" is the right way for Linked Data efforts.  And then author key 7349, will thus be useful for someone else linking back to it !  
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