Re: [jats-list] Journal meta: Multiple volumes

["Randall, Laura (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E] laura.randall@xxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My initial reaction to that suggestion (Jeff made the same one when I ran this
by him) was that it was misuse of that tag.

The issue in question actually has a <volume-series> as it's currently defined
because it's (at least) the second volume 1 of The Hospital. So it could
conceivably be tagged as:
<volume>1</volume>
<volume-series>2</volume-series>

My understanding of volume-series is that it's a descriptive property of the
volume itself. (I'm actually wondering why we didn't make this an attribute
and my notes from the discussions in 2007 aren't helpful on that point.) I see
that as really fundamentally different than the described case in the
documentation and I'm not sure I'd be comfortable capturing both with the same
tagging.

It would also seem a bit off to me if the way to tag this was so very
different than the way to tag issues of the same ilk. I think I'm selling
myself more on the idea that I need to request that <volume> needs to be able
to repeat in Green. And now that I look at the Tag Library again, we've
already added @specific-use and @content-type to volume, which almost feels
like we were preparing for that eventuality.

Thanks Debbie, I'm off to fill out the NISO request form.  :)

Laura

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From: Debbie Lapeyre dalapeyre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: [jats-list] Journal meta: Multiple volumes

Laura--

On Jun 5, 2014, at 10:07 AM, Randall, Laura (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E]
laura.randall@xxxxxxx <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello, all.
>
> I've come across a situation with a very old journal that appears to have
more than one volume. A scan of the relevant page image is available here:
> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6MQUWovAMjaVW1xQ1ZRbVZPSEk/edit?pli=1

The definition for the element <volume-series> is:

Series number of a journal volume for the rare case where a single
journal has multiple volumes with the same volume number.


You seem to have the opposite case, an issue with two
different volume numbers for a single issue. This seems to me
to be a second case of a volume series.

Might we add amend the definition and add a second example,
or does this seem like shoe-horning to you?

--Debbie

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