SvenLieber
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1 year ago Preliminary analysis
The following partials create JSON-LD for the different website pages (main page, articles, blog posts, events): https://github.com/wowchemy/wowchemy-hugo-themes/tree/main/modules/wowchemy-seo/layouts/partials/jsonld
Those partials have access to the variables of the page front matter (via $page.Params), I couldn't access the site variables.
Following the Hugo template lookup order, I can copy the existing partials into layouts/partials/jsonld and maintain there a local adapted copy which I have to maintain and adapt for future theme updates.
Possible solution
I could add more metadata to the existing author list variable of a page frontmatter, but this would cause compatibility issues with future theme versions as I would change a core variable of the theme which is used by several templates of the theme. Currently it is simply a list of names, if I would convert it to a list of dictionaries or something similar, I would have to adapt all templates using the author metadata.
It is better to define my own variables in a page frontmatter apart and adapt the existing partials to iterate over that data structure. This has the advantage that I do not change a core variable of the theme and only adapt a few partial templates. One disadvantage, due to the missing access possibility of the page scope, is that I would have to define author metadata on each and every page, but often I have the same co-authors for several publications (thus I would have to copy/paste a lot of data).
According to Google, there should not be structured data which is not visible in one way or another to a human user.
- [x] Rich metadata for main website (sameas links are already shown with icons)
- Rich metadata for articles
- [x] Rich JSON-LD for authors
- [ ] Rich JSON-LD for the article
- [x] Add clickable sameas links
- Rich metadata for events
- [ ] Rich JSON-LD for authors
- [x] Rich JSON-LD for events (including using
schema:VirtualLocationfor online events, as shown in the docs: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/event) - [ ] Add clickable sameas links
- [ ] Rich JSON-LD for project overview page (all my projects are external, thus I do not have explicit pages per project, e.g. with https://schema.org/ItemList)
- Rich metadata for blog posts
- [ ] Rich JSON-LD for authors
- [ ] Rich JSON-LD for the post
- [ ] Add clickable sameas links
- [ ] Rich JSON-LD for publication overview page (e.g. with https://schema.org/ItemList)
For the clickable links for the page itself I can add buttons as they already exist in the template, for other things on the page, for example for authors, I can add small icons next to it, for example like Orcid icons in academic publications.
Example of Orcid logo use on the SWIB 22 website: https://swib.org/swib22/programme.html
<p><a href="speakers.html#Xf9bdbdfd09c9a3ccc868ea7872a9b2be201cd7f4a0b9ea3c79820f6e35fea180">Sven Lieber</a> <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7304-3787"><img src="images/orcid.png" title="ORCID: 0000-0002-7304-3787"></a>, Ann Van Camp <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1915-5956"><img src="images/orcid.png" title="ORCID: 0000-0002-1915-5956"></a>, Hannes Lowagie <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0671-3568"><img src="images/orcid.png" title="ORCID: 0000-0002-0671-3568"></a></p>
The newest version of Wochemy (version 5) which I started to use (https://github.com/SvenLieber/website/commit/f468f8423fb0908b42bc313a3242f218c31a029c), has improved Schema.org annotation due to an integrated Wowchemy-SEO plugin. compared to the very old outdated version I used.
However, even though content is better annotated it can be better. Namely I would consider it 4 star Linked Data, but I would like to have 5 star Linked Data: linking to other Linked Data datasets in the web such as Wikidata.