: What is a good Microdata method for listing a list of events? I have a list of events that change over time, so items get added while others drop off after their dates expire. For point

@Shanna517

Each itemscope creates an (= one) item.

What this item should be, depends on the vocabulary you use. Both cases are conceivable: an item could be a list of events, or it could be a specific event. If the item would be a list of events, each event (that is part of this list) would itself be another, different item.

If you want to use the schema.org vocabulary, each event would be of type schema.org/Event (resp. a more specific type).

So a webpage with information about 3 (different!) events could look like:

<section>
<h1>Events</h1>

<article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Event">
…
</article>

<article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Event">
…
</article>

<article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Event">
…
</article>

</section>


(Depending on your actual content, a list (e.g., ul resp. ol) might be appropriate.)

schema.org doesn’t define a type for a list of events. But there is a general list type: schema.org/ItemList

A list of items of any sort—for example, Top 10 Movies About Weathermen, or Top 100 Party Songs.


So if you think that this is appropriate for your page, it could look like:

<section itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ItemList">
<h1>Events</h1>

<article itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Event">
…
</article>

<article itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Event">
…
</article>

<article itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Event">
…
</article>

</section>


Now this list (ItemList) has three (itemListElement) events (Event).

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@Candy875

It depends on how your page is structured and what the main theme of your page is. If the entire page consists of events at one particular venue, then I would recommend using the venue as your primary itemscope itemtype then including the various event markups within it. It would also be a good idea to create a separate page for each event so that you can include a unique URL for each event. If you want your event rich snippets to appear in Google, that is one of their requirements when a page lists multiple events.

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