Re: Indicating main entity / primaryTopic - proposal to use 'schema.org/about'

And shouldn't  <div id="main_item" itemscope itemtype="
http://schema.org/MusicEvent">
be <div itemid="main_item" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/MusicEvent">
in Microdata?

Referring to an @id in Microdata only works in combination with @itemref.


2014-05-20 19:23 GMT+02:00 Jarno van Driel <jarnovandriel@gmail.com>:

> or:
>
> <body itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/CollectionPage">
>     <link itemprop="about" href="https://www.freebase.com/m/03lty">
>
>     <div itemprop="mainContentOfPage" itemscope itemtype="
> http://schema.org/ItemList">
>         [...]
>     </div>
> </body>
>
>
> 2014-05-20 19:19 GMT+02:00 Jarno van Driel <jarnovandriel@gmail.com>:
>
> OK, that markup surprises me (probable has more to do with me).
>>
>> I always imagined writing something like:
>>
>> <body itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ItemPage">
>>     <link itemprop="about" href="https://www.freebase.com/m/0crgbp8">
>>
>>     <div itemprop="mainContentOfPage" itemscope itemtype="
>> http://schema.org/Product">
>>         [...]
>>     </div>
>> </body>
>>
>>
>> 2014-05-20 19:01 GMT+02:00 Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>:
>>
>> On 20 May 2014 17:30, Jason Douglas <jasondouglas@google.com> wrote:
>>> > I think you buried the lede in the github link at the bottom.  :)
>>> ( https://gist.github.com/anonymous/cf7e24f6378b176aa010 )
>>>
>>> Ok, let's jump into the markup. It does flush out some issues -
>>>
>>>
>>> > In terms of markup would it be reasonable to do this?
>>>
>>> Slight tweaks (discussing hashes and slashes with Dan Scott and
>>> Stephane Corlosquet in IRC...):
>>>
>>>  <html vocab="http://schema.org/">
>>>    <head>
>>>      <link property="about" href="#main_item"/>
>>>    </head>
>>>    <body>
>>>      <div resource="#main_item" typeof="MusicEvent">
>>>        ...
>>>      </div>
>>>    </body>
>>>  </html>
>>>
>>> (this adds a '/' in the @vocab url, and # within @resource attribute)
>>>
>>> > and rely on an implicit WebPage subject?
>>>
>>> Looks fine from RDFa point of view. Even though "implicit WebPage" is
>>> a schema.org convention, generic RDFa 1.1 parsing would attach the
>>> 'about' property to the default base URL, which would be the page.
>>>
>>> As for Microdata I'm not sure the best pattern, but this with more
>>> RDFa-ish structure in the <head> might be bearable:
>>>
>>> <html>
>>>    <head>
>>>      <link rel="http://schema.org/about" href="#main_item"/>
>>>    </head>
>>>    <body>
>>>      <div id="main_item" itemscope itemtype="
>>> http://schema.org/MusicEvent">
>>>        ...
>>>      </div>
>>>    </body>
>>>  </html>
>>>
>>>
>>> FWIW another everything in the body pattern that works for RDFa (but
>>> dips into RDFa 1.1 beyond the Lite subset) is:
>>>
>>> <div vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="Person">
>>>  <link rev="about" href=""/>
>>>  <span property="name">John Smith</span>
>>> </div>
>>>
>>> Which brings me to another issue that's never far away - we have a lot
>>> of ways of saying quite similar but different things(*):
>>>
>>> <div vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="Person">
>>>  <link rel="url sameAs officialWebPage" rev="about" href=""/>
>>>  <span property="name">John Smith</span>
>>> </div>
>>>
>>> At least this is pretty compact markup, but we owe the world an
>>> account of how at least 'url', 'sameAs' and 'about' interact.
>>>
>>> e.g. for any x, y where  x--sameAs-->y, is y--about-->x going to be true?
>>>
>>> sameAs's definition: "URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously
>>> indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia
>>> page, Freebase page, or official website." ... which covers the
>>> official website use case.
>>>
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> (*) officialWebPage is used by Yandex e.g. see
>>> http://help.yandex.com/webmaster/supported-schemas/review-car.xml but
>>> similar ideas surfaced here in the social/profile/account discussion
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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