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workTranslation

A Schema.org Property

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Thing > Property :: workTranslation

Canonical URL: https://schema.org/workTranslation
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A work that is a translation of the content of this work. E.g. 西遊記 has an English workTranslation “Journey to the West”, a German workTranslation “Monkeys Pilgerfahrt” and a Vietnamese translation Tây du ký bình khảo.

Inverse-property: translationOfWork

Values expected to be one of these types


 
 
 
 
 
 CreativeWork

Used on these types


 
 
 
 
 
 CreativeWork

Examples

Example 1

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Example notes or example HTML without markup.

A CreativeWork and its translation.

<div>
<div>
	<h1>Rouge et le noir</h1>
 <div>Author: Stendhal</div>
	<div>Language: French</div>
	<div>Has Translation: Red and Black : A New Translation, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism</div>
</div>

<div>
 <h1>Red and Black : A New Translation, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism</h1>
 <div>Author: Stendhal</div>
	<div>Language: English</div>
	<div>Subject: Psychological fiction, French</div>
	<div>Translation of: Rouge et le noir</div>
	<div>Translator: Robert Martin Adams</div>
</div>
</div>

Example encoded as Microdata embedded in HTML.

<div>
<div itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Book" itemid="http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/2292573321">
	<h1><span itemprop="name">Rouge et le noir</span></h1>
 <div>Author: <span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemid="http://viaf.org/viaf/17823">Stendhal</span></div>
	<div>Language: <meta itemprop="inLanguage" content="fr" />French</div>
	<div>Has Translation: <span itemprop="workTranslation" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemid="http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/460647">Red and Black : A New Translation, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism</span></div>
</div>
<div itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Book" itemid="http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/460647">
 <h1><span itemprop="name">Red and Black : A New Translation, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism</span></h1>
 <div>Author: <span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemid="http://viaf.org/viaf/17823">Stendhal</span></div>
	<div>Language: <meta itemprop="inLanguage" content="en" />English</div>
	<div>Subject: <span itemprop="about">Psychological fiction, French</span></div>
	<div>Translation of: <span itemprop="translationOfWork" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemid="http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/2292573321">Rouge et le noir</span></div>
	<div>Translator: <span itemprop="translator" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemid="http://viaf.org/viaf/8453420">Robert Martin Adams</span></div>
</div>
</div>

Example encoded as RDFa embedded in HTML.

<div vocab="https://schema.org/">
<div typeof="Book" resource="http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/2292573321">
	<h1><span property="name">Rouge et le noir</span></h1>
 <div>Author: <span property="author" typeof="Person" resource="http://viaf.org/viaf/17823">Stendhal</span></div>
	<div>Language: <span property="inLanguage" content="fr">French</span></div>
	<div>Has Translation: <span property="workTranslation" typeof="CreativeWork" resource="http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/460647">Red and Black : A New Translation, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism</span></div>
</div>
<div typeof="Book" resource="http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/460647">
 <h1><span property="name">Red and Black : A New Translation, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism</span></h1>
 <div>Author: <span property="author" typeof="Person" resource="http://viaf.org/viaf/17823">Stendhal</span></div>
	<div>Language: <span property="inLanguage" content="en">English</span></div>
	<div>Subject: <span property="about">Psychological fiction, French</span></div>
	<div>Translation of: <span property="translationOfWork" typeof="CreativeWork" resource="http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/2292573321">Rouge et le noir</span></div>
	<div>Translator: <span property="translator" typeof="Person" resource="http://viaf.org/viaf/8453420">Robert Martin Adams</span></div>
</div>
</div>

Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.

<script type="application/ld+json">
 {
 "@context": "https://schema.org/",
 "@graph": [
 {
 "@id": "http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/2292573321",
 "@type": "Book",
 "author": {
 "@id": "http://viaf.org/viaf/17823"
 },
 "inLanguage": "fr",
 "name": "Rouge et le noir",
 "workTranslation": {
 "@type": "Book",
 "@id": "http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/460647"
 }
 },
 {
 "@id": "http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/460647",
 "@type": "Book",
 "about": "Psychological fiction, French",
 "author": {
 "@id": "http://viaf.org/viaf/17823"
 },
 "inLanguage": "en",
 "name": "Red and Black : A New Translation, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism",
 "translationOfWork": {
 "@id": "http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/2292573321"
 },
 "translator": {
 "@id": "http://viaf.org/viaf/8453420"
 }
 }
 ]
 }
</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.

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