RE: [jats-list] how to describe <collab> in multiple languages

["Maloney, Christopher (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]" <maloneyc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> (these are NOT  enforcing Tag Sets after all)

What does this mean?

I like your third alternative:

> Or to give <collab> its own alternatives:
>      collab-alternatives  (collab+)

<name-alternatives> has the same semantics as <name>.  It can be used anywhere
a <name> can be used, and means the same thing as a <name>.  That is, when you
encounter a <name-alternatives>, you know you're going to get a list of
alternatives of a person's name.

<collab> is something completely different.  So if you allow <collab> inside
<name-alternatives>, it would conflate the semantics of <name-alternatives>,
and make downstream processing much harder, I would think.

This seems to me to be one instance of a general problem, since many of these
metadata items could potentially have multiple renderings in various languages
and scripts.  To keep the schema as clean and useful as possible, I would
think it would be best to provide a mechanism in each case that has the exact
same semantics as the original element.

The proliferation of element names could get unwieldy, though.  What about,
for example, <publisher-name>, <publisher-loc>,  etc.?  I wonder how the other
big publishing schema systems address this question.


Chris Maloney
NIH/NLM/NCBI (Contractor)
Building 45, 5AN.24D-22
301-594-2842


-----Original Message-----
From: Debbie Lapeyre [mailto:dalapeyre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 8:09 PM
To: jats-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [jats-list] how to describe <collab> in multiple languages

Dear All--

>Can <name-alternatives> be changed to contain <collab> in it?

This is an interesting request. I can understand wanting a <collab>
in multiple languages or multiple scripts, but I am a little
uncertain that just adding <collab> is the way to go:

Can a <name> or a <string-name> ever be an alternative for
a <collab>? Or, if you used multiple collaborations would it always
be with other <collab>s?

So I ask the group:

  - Would it be better to just allow any mix (these are NOT
    enforcing Tag Sets after all):

      name-alternatives  (collab | name | string-name)+

  - Or to try to restrict the usage:

      name-alternatives  (collab+ | (name | string-name)+ )

  - Or to give <collab> its own alternatives:

      collab-alternatives  (collab+)

  - Or something else entirely?

What say you all?

--Debbie

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