Name the app's author in structured data, for search - #162
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Part of the 2026-09-05 credit James asked for: "App designed by James
Markey MBE and the UNISIM team... it's more for search results than user."
The in-app half is a colophon in the SDK's <AboutAppDialog>. This is the
half a search engine can actually read, because that one cannot be: the
dialog is a React portal and only enters the DOM once somebody clicks
"About this app", so a crawler never renders it. This app's index.html is
static and had no structured data at all.
Adds one SoftwareApplication block naming:
* Person - James Markey, honorificSuffix MBE, url -> /about-james. The
same url the app's marketing page uses, so the two resolve to ONE
person rather than two unlinked mentions of a name.
* Organization - UNI-SIM, with subjectOf the team post.
* provider - UNI-SIM. A different claim from author and both belong:
provider operates and supports it, author made it.
Every value is read from THIS FILE's own title, description and canonical
rather than typed again, so the block cannot drift from what the page
already says about itself.
Verified in Chromium: exactly one JSON-LD block, it parses, the author
reads back with the right name, suffix and url, and its url matches the
page's canonical. Same check passed on all 15 apps.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01M49D85H2FcSGrfbTMQsv3o
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Part of the 2026-09-05 credit James asked for: "App designed by James Markey MBE and the UNISIM team... it's more for search results than user." One of 15 identical PRs across the Universal Apps.
Why this file and not the About dialog
The in-app half is a colophon in the SDK's
<AboutAppDialog>. This is the half a search engine can actually read — because that one cannot be: the dialog is a React portal and only enters the DOM once somebody clicks "About this app", so a crawler never renders it. This app'sindex.htmlis static, already carries a full set of meta/og/twitter tags, and had no structured data at all.What it adds
One
SoftwareApplicationblock naming:honorificSuffixMBE,url→/about-james. The same url the app's marketing page uses, so the two resolve to one person rather than two unlinked mentions of a name.subjectOfthe team post.author, and both belong: provider operates and supports it, author made it.Every value is read from this file's own
<title>, description and canonical rather than typed again, so the block can't drift from what the page already says about itself.Verified
Chromium, on all 15 apps: exactly one JSON-LD block, it parses, the author reads back with the right name, suffix and url, and its
urlmatches the page'scanonical. 15/15, zero page errors.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
https://claude.ai/code/session_01M49D85H2FcSGrfbTMQsv3o
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