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    <div class="description">The author of this content or rating. Please note that author is special in that HTML 5 provides a special mechanism for indicating authorship via the rel tag. That is equivalent to this and may be used interchangeably.</div>
        
    
	
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                <thead><tr><th>Values expected to be one of these types</th></tr></thead>
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    <a href="/Organization"  
        class="core" title="Organization">Organization</a><br/>
                    
                
                    
                        
    
    
    <a href="/Person"  
        class="core" title="Person">Person</a>
                    
                
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    <a href="/CreativeWork"  
        class="core" title="CreativeWork">CreativeWork</a><br/>
                    
                
                    
                        
    
    
    <a href="/Rating"  
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<div class="ds-tab eg-0330 original_html selected">
  <div class="ds-tab-note" >Example notes or example HTML without markup.</div>
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Book series example with nested author(JSON-LD only).
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<div class="ds-tab eg-0330 microdata">
  <div class="ds-tab-note" >Example encoded as <a class="ds-tab-note" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdata_(HTML)">Microdata</a> embedded in HTML.</div>
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TODO
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  <div class="ds-tab-note" >Example encoded as <a class="ds-tab-note" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDFa">RDFa</a> embedded in HTML.</div>
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TODO
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  <div class="ds-tab-note" >Example encoded as <a class="ds-tab-note" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON-LD">JSON-LD</a> in a HTML script tag.</div>
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&lt;script type=&#34;application/ld+json&#34;&gt;
    {
        &#34;@context&#34;: &#34;https://schema.org&#34;,
        &#34;@type&#34;: &#34;BookSeries&#34;,
        &#34;name&#34;: &#34;The Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide to the Galaxy&#34;,
        &#34;genre&#34;: &#34;comedy science fiction&#34;,
        &#34;startDate&#34;: &#34;1979-10-12&#34;,
        &#34;endDate&#34;: &#34;1992-10-12&#34;,
        &#34;abstract&#34;: &#34;Earthman Arthur Dent is saved by his friend, Ford Prefect—an alien researcher for the titular Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide to the Galaxy, which provides info on every planet in the galaxy—from the Earth just before it is destroyed by the alien Vogons.&#34;,
        &#34;author&#34;: {
            &#34;@type&#34;: &#34;Person&#34;,
            &#34;givenName&#34;: &#34;Douglas&#34;,
            &#34;familyName&#34;: &#34;Adams&#34;,
            &#34;additionalName&#34;: &#34;Noel&#34;,
            &#34;birthDate&#34;: &#34;1952-03-11&#34;,
            &#34;birthPlace&#34;: {
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                &#34;address&#34;: &#34;Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England&#34;
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        &#34;name&#34;: &#34;The Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide to the Galaxy&#34;,
        &#34;genre&#34;: &#34;comedy science fiction&#34;,
        &#34;startDate&#34;: &#34;1979-10-12&#34;,
        &#34;endDate&#34;: &#34;1992-10-12&#34;,
        &#34;abstract&#34;: &#34;Earthman Arthur Dent is saved by his friend, Ford Prefect—an alien researcher for the titular Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide to the Galaxy, which provides info on every planet in the galaxy—from the Earth just before it is destroyed by the alien Vogons.&#34;,
        &#34;author&#34;: {
            &#34;@type&#34;: &#34;Person&#34;,
            &#34;givenName&#34;: &#34;Douglas&#34;,
            &#34;familyName&#34;: &#34;Adams&#34;,
            &#34;additionalName&#34;: &#34;Noel&#34;,
            &#34;birthDate&#34;: &#34;1952-03-11&#34;,
            &#34;birthPlace&#34;: {
                &#34;@type&#34;: &#34;Place&#34;,
                &#34;address&#34;: &#34;Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England&#34;
            },
            &#34;deathDate&#34;: &#34;2001-05-11&#34;,
            &#34;deathPlace&#34;: {
                &#34;@type&#34;: &#34;Place&#34;,
                &#34;address&#34;: &#34;Highgate Cemetery, London, England&#34;
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