[jats-list] NISO and NFAIS Issue Draft for Public Comment of Second Part of Recommended Practice on Supplemental Materials for Journal Articles

Subject: [jats-list] NISO and NFAIS Issue Draft for Public Comment of Second Part of Recommended Practice on Supplemental Materials for Journal Articles
From: Alexander Schwarzman <aschwarzman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:44:12 -0400
Your comments are welcome! The deadline is 15 September 2012.
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/supplemental

http://tinyurl.com/cdzv7jd
Baltimore, MD & Philadelphia, PA - July 30, 2012 - The National
Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the National Federation
for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) have issued a new
Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials,
Part B: Technical Recommendations (NISO RP-15-201x) for public comment
until September 15, 2012. Although supplemental materials are
increasingly being added to journal articles, there is no recognized
set of practices to guide in the selection, delivery, discovery, or
preservation of these materials. To address this gap, NISO and NFAIS
jointly sponsored a working group to establish best practices that
would provide guidance to publishers and authors for management of
supplemental materials and would solve related problems for
librarians, abstracting and indexing services, and repository
administrators. The Supplemental Materials project has two groups
working in tandem: one to address business practices and one to focus
on technical issues. The draft currently available for comment
includes the recommendations from the Technical Working Group; the
Business Group draft recommendations were issued earlier this year.
Following the current public comment period, the two parts will be
finalized and combined into the final Recommended Practice.

"The Technical Recommendations are consistent with the distinction
made in Part A between Integral Content, which is essential for the
full understanding of the journal article, and Additional Content,
which provides relevant and useful expansion of the article's
content," stated David Martinsen, Senior Scientist, Digital Publishing
Strategy, American Chemical Society, and Co-chair of the NISO/NFAIS
Supplemental Journal Article Materials Technical Working Group.
"Integral Supplemental Materials essential for understanding the
article constitute part of the scholarly record and should be
preserved at the same level as the article. The recommendations
provide guidance to ensure such materials will be available in
conjunction with, and as long, as the relevant journal article."

"Ensuring effective access, use, and long-term preservation of
supplemental materials to journal articles requires up-front planning
about persistent identifiers, metadata, file formats, and packaging,"
explained Alexander ('Sasha') Schwarzman, Content Technology Architect
with OSA - The Optical Society, and Co-chair of the NISO/NFAIS
Supplemental Journal Article Materials Technical Working Group. "These
technical recommendations for handling of supplemental materials
simplify much of that planning and decision-making, and will also
ensure a standardized approach across publishers and publishing
platforms."

"In support of the recommendations, the Working Group has also
developed a metadata schema, a tag library, and tagged examples," said
Nettie Lagace, Associate Director for Programs. "This supporting
documentation, which is also available for review during the comment
period, should be very helpful to implementers of this Recommended
Practice."

Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials,
Part B: Technical Recommendations, the supporting documentation, and
an online commenting form are available from the NISO website at:
www.niso.org/workrooms/supplemental. Publishers, authors, librarians,
abstracting and indexing services, and repository administrators are
all encouraged to review and comment on this draft.

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