Re: [jats-list] Tagging supplementary material in JATS

[Kevin Hawkins <kevin.s.hawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sasha,

On 4/26/14 6:24 PM, Alexander Schwarzman wrote:

> In addition to the technical question of which markup is more
> appropriate, this makes me think of two issues:
> - is JATS an appropriate tool to express the (hierarchical) structure
> and contents of supplementary materials? It's a *Journal Article* Tag
> Set after all, and not necessarily the right expressive instrument for
> dealing with the sprawling hierarchies of (potentially infinitely
> nested) components that may have a certain relationship to the said
> article.

I'll let others weigh in on whether they feel JATS is appropriate for 
reflecting the structure and contents of supplementary material. 
However, I'll note that you might consider creating a METS document to 
accompany each JATS article. This METS document can express the 
structure and content.  Furthermore, by keeping the structure there, it 
would free you to use the JATS markup as you read the JATS 
specification, without also trying to encode your hierarchy in it.

--Kevin