How to relate an ItemList to a Person

[Sergio Redondo]

Hi all! 

I'm preparing schema markup for author's pages in a magazine website. These pages contains a list of several articles published by each author, list that I markup as ItemList, being each article a ListItem. How can I relate this ItemList to the author (Person)?

I know I can indicate Person as mainEntityOfPage of the page, and ItemList as subjectOf of this same page, but then, Person and ItemList appears as fragmented types:

Thanks in advanced!

[jarnovandriel]

The way I do this is by specifying the Person as the mainEntityOfPage whereas each article in the ItemList refers back to the Person through the author property and the Person's fragment identifier.

Here's an example:

{
  "@context":"https://schema.org",
  "@graph":[{
    "@id": "https://example.com/authors/wile-e-coyote/#mainEntityOfPage",
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "Wile E. Coyote",
    "url": "https://example.com/authors/wile-e-coyote/",
    "mainEntityOfPage": {
      "@type": "ProfilePage",
      "@id": "https://example.com/authors/wile-e-coyote/"
    }
  },{
    "@type":"ItemList",
    "name": "Articles by Wile E. Coyote",
    "url": "https://example.com/authors/wile-e-coyote/",
    "itemListElement": [{
      "@type": "ListItem",
      "position": 1,
      "item": {
        "@type": "Article",
        "url": "https://example.com/blog/new-explosive-tennis-balls-are-da-bomb/",
        "headline": "New explosive tennis balls are da bomb",
        "author": {"@id": "https://example.com/authors/wile-e-coyote/#mainEntityOfPage"}
      }
    },{
      "@type": "ListItem",
      "position": 2,
      "item": {
        "@type": "Article",
        "url": "https://example.com/blog/diy-paint-tunnels-are-super-realistic/",
        "headline": "DIY paint tunnels are super realistic",
        "author": {"@id": "https://example.com/authors/wile-e-coyote/#mainEntityOfPage"}
      }
    }]
  }]
}

[jarnovandriel]

And if you want to the ItemList to be eligible for a carousel you need to multi-type each ListItem as opposed to specifying an "item" property for each a such:

{
  "@context":"https://schema.org",
  "@graph":[{
    "@id": "https://example.com/authors/wile-e-coyote/#mainEntityOfPage",
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "Wile E. Coyote",
    "url": "https://example.com/authors/wile-e-coyote/",
    "mainEntityOfPage": {
      "@type": "ProfilePage",
      "@id": "https://example.com/authors/wile-e-coyote/"
    }
  },{
    "@type": "ItemList",
    "name": "Articles by Wile E. Coyote",
    "url": "https://example.com/authors/wile-e-coyote/",
    "itemListElement": [{

      "@type": ["ListItem", "Article"],
      "position": 1,

      "url": "https://example.com/blog/new-explosive-tennis-balls-are-da-bomb/",
      "headline": "New explosive tennis balls are da bomb",
      "author": {"@id": "https://example.com/authors/wile-e-coyote/#mainEntityOfPage"}
    },{

      "@type": ["ListItem", "Article"],
      "position": 2,

      "url": "https://example.com/blog/diy-paint-tunnels-are-super-realistic/",
      "headline": "DIY paint tunnels are super realistic",
      "author": {"@id": "https://example.com/authors/wile-e-coyote/#mainEntityOfPage"}
    }]
  }]
}