personal ad - schema markup

Question

We have a website where people can create personal ads in order to find language-partners.

Does anyone have an idea on how to markup these ads using schema.org?

By now we only have rel=author on each author-name of an ad. But it would be good if we could also markup the following elements of the ads:

• the ad itself (the div that wraps the ad)
• author-image
• authoer location/homelocation
• creation date
• mothertongue
• wanted/learn language
• description

Thanks in advance for your help!

Answer 1

Uhm, not exactly an expert here, but I think you should wrap all that in a http://schema.org/Person and use the already existing tags for that, assuming the ad links to a user's homepage you can just add the link as a url for the person. Assuming a div contains all that you just define it as:

<div itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
.... all the properties ....
</div>

If I'm not mistaken all the described properties are already defined in Person, in fact you can find most of them in the example at the bottom of the page, just take a look at http://schema.org/Person

Really can't give you any more information without an already existing markup sample.