What microdata should I use for a blog?
The blog is basically a page that lists the summary of like 10 articles, each item title linking to the full article page.
I've seen:
Where do I use these?
Right now on the individual article page I have:
<article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article">
<h1 itemprop="name"> <a href="..."> A title... </a> </h1>
<div itemprop="articleBody">
bla bla
</div>
...
</article>
Which is ok I guess, but what do I do on the article index page? Do I add these to each article and add itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Blog" itemprop="blogPosts" to the container element of all articles? Because in the docs it doesn't appear that article is a child of blog...
Answer
I agree with what others say that the subject is very vague. Never the less I will attempt to express my thoughts on the matter and show you how I'm doing it on my blog.
I use both WebPage and Blog item types in the same document to mark up different things.
Web page
I use WebPage item type on the body tag (but you can also use any other parent of the breadcrumb). By doing so I can mark up my bread crumbs.
<body itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/WebPage">
<ul itemprop="breadcrumb">
<li>
<a href="foo">foo</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="foo/bar">bar</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="foo/bar/baz">baz</a>
</li>
</ul>
...
</body>
Blog postes
When I loop the blog posts I use the Blog item type on the wrapper that contains all of the blog articles. I mark every article with the property blogPosts and uses of course BlogPosting as item type.
<section itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Blog">
<article itemprop="blogPosts" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting">
...
</article>
<article itemprop="blogPosts" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting">
...
</article>
...
</section>
Article page
See edit below for an update to this opinion
On the articles landing page I don't use the Blog item type. But I do mark the post as a BlogPosting item.
<article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting">
...
</article>
The only reason I can see that you would wanna mark something with a Blog item type is because of the blogPosts properties and the fact to say that it is a blog. I think you fulfill saying that it's a blog by marking the article as a BlogPosting.
I also don't think it's correct using the property in this context since this is used in a plural form. To me that reflect a different area of use.
Edit
I'm not sure if the schema has extended or if I missed it the first time around, but the Blog item has a property called blogPost now, that is the singular form blogPosts. So then I would say that it makes more sense to mark up the main element as the Blog item and use the blogPost property for the article and mark it up as a BlogPosting item