Citation Microdata Example

An experimental microdata markup of a citation and reference.

A citation and a reference

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In each of the successively more derived clades Ornithodira, Dinosauria, and Saurischia, the primitive state was an increasingly long neck [Sereno 1991]

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Markup and RDF graph

(例)

<html itemscope="" itemid="" itemtype="http://schema.org/WebPage">
...
<blockquote itemprop="hasCitation" 
  itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Citation">
  <p itemprop="citeText">In each of the successively more derived clades Ornithodira,...
   <cite itemprop="reference" itemscope="" itemid="doi:10.2307/3889336">[Sereno 1991]</cite>
  </p>
</blockquote>
...
<ul id="references">
  <li itemprop="citation" 
    itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle"
    itemid="doi:10.2307/3889336">
    <span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
      <span itemprop="familyName">Sereno</span> <span itemprop="givenName">PD</span>
    </span> 
    (<span itemprop="datePublished">1991</span>)
    <cite itemprop="name">
      <a itemprop="url" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3889336">
       Basal archosaurs: phylogenetic relationships and functional implications
      </a>
    </cite>
    <span>
      <cite class="source">Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir</cite>
      <span class="volume">2</span>:<span class="fpage">1</span>
    </span>
  </li>
</ul>
Extacted RDF graph:

Note: Citation resource (_:arcccdfb1 in the above graph) is optional, i.e. article-to-article citation is represented without it. However, it can also describe

Some terms in the example (e.g. schema:hasCitation, schema:Citation and schema:reference) are just experimental and not yet defined in schema.org.