SEO/GenAI structured data + author profile page rebuild

[LukasWallrich]

Summary

Adds structured data (JSON-LD) across the site for richer search-engine and GenAI results, and rebuilds the author profile system, which was fundamentally broken.

SEO / GenAI optimisation advice by Keegan Vaz — thank you! 🙏

Part 1 — Structured data (JSON-LD)

All built with the repo's existing dict + jsonify + safeJS convention (as in clusters/seo_jsonld.html), which JSON-escapes values safely — rather than hand-written JSON string interpolation.

Schema	Where
DefinedTerm	every glossary term page (all 5 languages, correct inLanguage)
Article	Educators' Corner posts
ScholarlyArticle / CollectionPage	the two Summaries pages (196 + 34 entries)
Person	substantive author profiles

On DOIs: Summaries DOIs are extracted from the stored APA reference strings via regex — never fabricated. When a reference has no DOI, the field is omitted.

Not added — meta-description partial: the theme's site_head.html already emits description / og:description / twitter:description (and even uses a glossary term's definition), so a separate partial would only duplicate the tags.

Part 2 — Author profile page rebuild

The problem

content/authors/ was simultaneously a content section and the authors taxonomy (same name). Consequences:

• Any profile whose term slug matched its folder name was suppressed (rendered nowhere) due to the section/taxonomy path collision.
• Every profile carried a junk authors: - Name "X" field (a template copy-paste error) that mangled the surviving pages — they rendered at /author/name-<slug>/ with titles literally reading Name "...".
• ~250 such thin, mangled pages were in the sitemap, hurting SEO.

The fix

• Disabled the author taxonomy + its permalink; author profiles now render as plain section pages at /authors/<slug>/.
• Rewrote layouts/authors/list.html to render the full profile (avatar, name, role, organization, social links, bio, real interests) plus an auto-generated list of that author's posts — and an alphabetical authors index at /authors/.
• Stripped the junk authors: field and added a proper title: across the 119 profiles.
• Override page_metadata_authors.html so bylines slugify display names and link to the new /authors/<slug>/ URLs (previously they pointed at an empty /author/).
• Noindex empty template stubs (no bio/role/org/interests and no credited content) so they don't dilute search. 59 substantive profiles are indexed and carry Person schema; 60 empty stubs are noindex, follow.

Adding authors going forward

Drop a folder under content/authors/<username>/ with an _index.md (name, optional role/bio/organizations/social) and an avatar image. No taxonomy quirks.

⚠️ URL change

Author URLs change from /author/name-<slug>/ → /authors/<slug>/. The old URLs were auto-generated and not referenced by any internal link (verified across content, layouts, data, static). If any are indexed/linked externally, we can add aliases for redirects.

Verification

• hugo build is green.
• Profile pages render correctly (verified via screenshots — avatar/role/org/bio/posts).
• 119 author pages; old /author/* pages gone (0 in sitemap); exactly one Person per substantive profile (no theme duplicate).
• All JSON-LD parses as valid JSON; schemas confirmed across glossary languages, educators, and both summaries pages.

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Deployed at: 2026-06-03 13:58:10 UTC
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