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Reputation:

What to do if "publisher" and "author" property have the same value?

I am implementing structured data into my website. When I consider Schema.org’s Article, publisher and author is the same Organization.

Is it a good practice to duplicate it in both properties? I am using JSON-LD to implement it.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1132

Answers (1)

unor
unor

Reputation: 96697

In JSON-LD (in contrast to Microdata and RDFa), you have no choice other than to duplicate it.

However, you don’t necessarily have to provide the full Organization item in both places. Give your Organization a URI with @id, and then reference this URI in the other place:

"author": {
  "@type": "Organization",
  "@id": "/#org",
  "url": "/",
  "name": "Nosek Inc.",
  "description": "Great organization"
},
"publisher": {"@id": "/#org"}

It often make sense to provide/duplicate at least some properties, though, e.g., important ones like @type, name, url etc.:

"publisher": {
  "@type": "Organization",
  "@id": "/#org",
  "name": "Nosek Inc."
}

Upvotes: 2

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