[jats-list] Tagging page information in flow of a document

["Jan Driesen jan.driesen@xxxxxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,


Is there a good practice for tagging information on the print page number in
JATS and / or BITS? Not just the start & and page in the metadata level, but
rather balong the flowb in the body-text?
While the XML may be intended to be medium independent, it is customary to
cite statements in another work using the exact page number in the print/pdf
version. Print/PDF has this bpageb feature obviously exposed when
consulting it, and users tend to consider this paged format as a version of
record for citing because of this. To enable other output formats to deliver
these features (e.g. in a side-bar or overlay for html), contributes to the
capability of citing them, without the need to revert to a paged medium
version of the content.

I understand this touches on how digital or un-paged media can (or should) be
cited in other ways, but as things stand today, users of non-paged media feel
a need to refer to print page number (of a certain parallel paged version). If
there is a good way to code this in JATS/BITS, we could offer this information
to in other formats too, so it is easier to cite the workb&


Kind regards,

Jan Driesen