[jats-list] Index terms

["Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex" <gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx>]

Looking at the book 3.0 tag set [1], I didnt see any vocabulary for 
encoding inline index terms ` la DocBook [2] or TEI [3].

I hoped to see these concepts in JATS 1.0 but it doesnt seem to cover 
book peculiarities at all.

So there are essentially three questions for which I hope knowledgeable 
list members may provide answers:

 What is the future path for the book tag set?

 Will it include index terms proper?

 Which markup alternatives (e.g., named-content) would you recommend 
for the time being?

Im asking because a German publisher whom I advise is already using NLM 
for journal articles and theyd like to use essentially the same 
vocabulary for books. My current advice would be to mix in either the 
DocBook or the TEI vocabulary, or to go with named-content and a 
controlled @content-type vocabulary., In the latter approach, youd 
probably encode something like Anticonvulsants, Interactions (primary, 
secondary) as
<named-content content-type="indexterm">Anticonvulsants<named-content 
content-type="indexterm">Interactions</named-content></named-content>.
I dont like this approach because the named-content model is too 
liberal for index terms. Youd have to use Schematron (which were using 
anyway, so itll still be acceptable).

Thanks for your insights & suggestions.

Gerrit

[1] http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/book/tag-library/3.0/index.html
[2] http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/indexterm.singular.html
[3] http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/CO.html#CONOIXgen

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