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How do I relate items in schema.org?

Asked 2011-10-12T20:11:13.013
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Suppose I have this simple HTML page about a guy getting a job:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <title>New Job for John Doe</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>New Job for John Doe</h1>
        <p>This week John Doe accepted an offer to become a Software Engineer at MITRE.  John graduated from MIT in 2005 with a BS in Computer Science.  He previously worked at a small company near Boston.  Blah, blah, blah.</p>
        <p>The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest.  The MITRE Corporation has two principal locations: Bedford, Massachusetts, and McLean, Virginia.  Blah, blah, blah.</p>
    </body>
</html>

If I add semantic data using the schema.org vocabulary, it might look like this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <title>New Job for John Doe</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>New Job for John Doe</h1>
        <p itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">This week John Doe accepted an offer to become a <span itemprop="jobTitle">Software Engineer</span> at <span itemprop="worksFor">MITRE</span>.  John graduated from <span itemprop="alumniOf">MIT</span> in 2005 with a BS in Computer Science.  He previously worked at a small company near Boston.  Blah, blah, blah.</p>
        <p itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Corporation">The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest.  The MITRE Corporation has two principal locations: <span itemprop="location">Bedford, Massachusetts</span>, and <span itemprop="location">McLean, Virginia</span>.  Blah, blah, blah.</p>
    </body>
</h
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//Update : Schema.org expanded their specifications of perso schema

obviously the Person is related to the Company, so what you can do is to make a relation between person and organisation wit "person´s" itemprop "affiliation" so what i did is wrapping the paragraphs with itemscope itemtype="Person" and expanded the Schema Person by adding itemprop"affiliation" and itemscope itemtype="Organization" so now theres a semantic relation, the person is affiliated with the organization. I also added meta tag with itemprop="name" because it´s needed to fulfill "Person" specifications

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>New Job for John Doe</title>
</head>
<body>
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
    <h1>New Job for John Doe</h1>
<meta itemprop="name" content="John Doe" />
    <p>This week John Doe accepted an offer to become a <span itemprop="jobTitle">Software Engineer</span> at <span itemprop="worksFor">MITRE</span>.  John graduated from <span itemprop="alumniOf">MIT</span> in 2005 with a BS in Computer Science.  He previously worked at a small company near Boston.  Blah, blah, blah.</p>
    <p itemprop="affiliation" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest.  The MITRE Corporation has two principal locations: <span itemprop="location">Bedford, Massachusetts</span>, and <span itemprop="location">McLean, Virginia</span>.  Blah, blah, blah.</p>
</div> <!-- closing Schema "Person" -->
</body>
</html>

You can put this into google rich snippet testing tool and i guess the Output is what you where looking for

Item 
type:   http://schema.org/person
property:   
name:   John Doe
jobtitle:
answered 2013-01-14T12:13:03.647

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