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    <div class="description">A description of the item.</div>
        
    
	
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        <a  id="eg-0006" title="Link: #eg-0006" href="#eg-0006" class="clickableAnchor" >Example 1</a>			<div class="tooltip">	
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    <a data-selects='microdata' class=''>Microdata</a>
    <a data-selects='rdfa' class=''>RDFa</a>
    <a data-selects='jsonld' class=''>JSON-LD</a>
    <a data-selects='structure' class='extabs'>Structure</a>
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<div class="ds-tab eg-0006 original_html selected">
  <div class="ds-tab-note" >Example notes or example HTML without markup.</div>
  <pre class="ds-tab-content prettyprint lang-html linenums clipsource ">
&lt;b&gt;12oclock_girona.mp3&lt;/b&gt;
Total Time: 0m:15s - Recorded on a terrace of Girona a sunday morning
composed by Roger

 &lt;script type=&#34;text/javascript&#34;&gt;
var fo = new FlashObject(&#34;http://google.com/flash/preview-player.swf&#34;, &#34;flashPlayer_719&#34;, &#34;358&#34;, &#34;16&#34;, &#34;6&#34;, &#34;#FFFFFF&#34;);fo.addVariable(&#34;url&#34;, &#34;http://media.freesound.org/data/0/previews/719__elmomo__12oclock_girona_preview.mp3&#34;);fo.addVariable(&#34;autostart&#34;, &#34;0&#34;);fo.write(&#34;flashcontent_719&#34;);
&lt;/script&gt;
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<div class="ds-tab eg-0006 microdata">
  <div class="ds-tab-note" >Example encoded as <a class="ds-tab-note" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdata_(HTML)">Microdata</a> embedded in HTML.</div>
  <pre class="ds-tab-content prettyprint lang-html linenums clipsource ">
&lt;div itemscope itemtype=&#34;https://schema.org/AudioObject&#34;&gt;
  &lt;span itemprop=&#34;name&#34;&gt;&lt;b&gt;12oclock_girona.mp3&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;script type=&#34;text/javascript&#34;&gt;
  var fo = new FlashObject(&#34;http://google.com/flash/preview-player.swf&#34;,
  &#34;flashPlayer_719&#34;, &#34;358&#34;, &#34;16&#34;, &#34;6&#34;, &#34;#FFFFFF&#34;);fo.addVariable(&#34;url&#34;,&#34;http://media.freesound.org/data/0/previews/719__elmomo__12oclock_girona_preview.mp3&#34;);fo.addVariable(&#34;autostart&#34;, &#34;0&#34;);fo.write(&#34;flashcontent_719&#34;);
&lt;/script&gt;

&lt;meta itemprop=&#34;encodingFormat&#34; content=&#34;audio/mpeg&#34; /&gt;
 &lt;meta itemprop=&#34;contentUrl&#34; content=&#34;http://media.freesound.org/data/0/previews/719__elmomo__12oclock_girona_preview.mp3&#34; /&gt;

&lt;span class=&#34;description&#34;&gt;
      &lt;meta itemprop=&#34;duration&#34; content=&#34;T0M15S&#34; /&gt;
      &lt;span itemprop=&#34;description&#34;&gt;Recorded on a terrace of Girona a sunday morning&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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<div class="ds-tab eg-0006 rdfa">
  <div class="ds-tab-note" >Example encoded as <a class="ds-tab-note" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDFa">RDFa</a> embedded in HTML.</div>
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&lt;div vocab=&#34;https://schema.org/&#34; typeof=&#34;AudioObject&#34;&gt;
  &lt;span property=&#34;name&#34;&gt;&lt;b&gt;12oclock_girona.mp3&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;script type=&#34;text/javascript&#34;&gt;
  var fo = new FlashObject(&#34;http://google.com/flash/preview-player.swf&#34;,
  &#34;flashPlayer_719&#34;, &#34;358&#34;, &#34;16&#34;, &#34;6&#34;, &#34;#FFFFFF&#34;);fo.addVariable(&#34;url&#34;,&#34;http://media.freesound.org/data/0/previews/719__elmomo__12oclock_girona_preview.mp3&#34;);fo.addVariable(&#34;autostart&#34;, &#34;0&#34;);fo.write(&#34;flashcontent_719&#34;);
&lt;/script&gt;

&lt;meta property=&#34;encodingFormat&#34; content=&#34;audio/mpeg&#34; /&gt;
 &lt;meta property=&#34;contentUrl&#34; content=&#34;http://media.freesound.org/data/0/previews/719__elmomo__12oclock_girona_preview.mp3&#34; /&gt;

&lt;span class=&#34;description&#34;&gt;
      &lt;meta property=&#34;duration&#34; content=&#34;T0M15S&#34; /&gt;
      &lt;span property=&#34;description&#34;&gt;Recorded on a terrace of Girona a sunday morning&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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<div class="ds-tab eg-0006 jsonld ">
  <div class="ds-tab-note" >Example encoded as <a class="ds-tab-note" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON-LD">JSON-LD</a> in a HTML script tag.</div>
  <pre class="ds-tab-content prettyprint lang-html linenums clipsource ">
&lt;script type=&#34;application/ld+json&#34;&gt;
{
  &#34;@context&#34;: &#34;https://schema.org&#34;,
  &#34;@type&#34;: &#34;AudioObject&#34;,
  &#34;contentUrl&#34;: &#34;http://media.freesound.org/data/0/previews/719__elmomo__12oclock_girona_preview.mp3&#34;,
  &#34;description&#34;: &#34;Recorded on a terrace of Girona a sunday morning&#34;,
  &#34;duration&#34;: &#34;T0M15S&#34;,
  &#34;encodingFormat&#34;: &#34;audio/mpeg&#34;,
  &#34;name&#34;: &#34;12oclock_girona.mp3&#34;
}
&lt;/script&gt;
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  <div class="ds-tab-note" >Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.</div>
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<div class="payload eg-0006" style="display: none;">{
  &#34;@context&#34;: &#34;https://schema.org&#34;,
  &#34;@type&#34;: &#34;AudioObject&#34;,
  &#34;contentUrl&#34;: &#34;http://media.freesound.org/data/0/previews/719__elmomo__12oclock_girona_preview.mp3&#34;,
  &#34;description&#34;: &#34;Recorded on a terrace of Girona a sunday morning&#34;,
  &#34;duration&#34;: &#34;T0M15S&#34;,
  &#34;encodingFormat&#34;: &#34;audio/mpeg&#34;,
  &#34;name&#34;: &#34;12oclock_girona.mp3&#34;
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