Re: [jats-list] Why is archiving JATS with a DOI not common?

["David Haber dhaber@xxxxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Castedo,

After reading your question a few times more, are you asking why the specific
XML component or format of a given article does not have its own unique DOI?

So, perhaps a publisher HTML version would have a DOI, maybe the PDF would
have a DOI, perhaps an ePub would have a DOI, and maybe the XML? And all these
dois would be unique?

If that is your question, then the reason is that the article is the unit of
measure in scholarly publishing, and those other versions are just that,
versions or different formats. The content is not unique to the format so
therefore would not get a separate doi. It is true that different formats may
display a piece of an article differently (or maybe not at all) but that does
not make the format unique because the DOI represents the entire published
object and all its formats because that is the unique piece we as publishers
are shepherding to the world.

It is true bits and pieces and even formats of an article could be assigned a
component DOI, but sort of relationship (between component piece and main
published object) is not standard across the industry and may cause confusion
and citation mayhem  if not standardized and controlled very carefully.

If I completely misinterpreted the question, apologies.

David

On Apr 29, 2022, at 3:51 AM, Nikos Markantonatos <nikos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

o;?
Hello Castedo.

There are literally tens of millions of scholarly articles encoded under JATS
Archiving DTD which also possess a DOI. I know that Atypon is hosting a good
portion of them and they all possess a DOI. So, yes, JATS XML DOIs are
extremely common as you would expect.

Does this address your question?

Nikos

On 4/15/22 7:10 PM, Castedo Ellerman
castedo@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:castedo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm new to JATS and a bit confused why archiving JATS with a DOI is not
common. I have yet to see an example actually. The closest example I have seen
is eLife publicly storing JATS XML files in
github.com/elifesciences/elife-article-xml

Are there any examples of JATS being archived with a DOI?

I believe many in this forum would agree that a DOI should refer NOT to a
manifestation of an article (in FRBR Group 1 terms) but rather the work or
expression. https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/archiving/rationale.html reads:
  "The intent of the Archiving Tag Set is to provide a standardized format in
which to preserve the intellectual content ..."

So shouldn't it be common that DOIs reference the intellectual content in the
form of JATS XML?

As it stand now, it seems most DOIs to scientific articles are actually IDs to
manifestations at journal websites which are optimized for the business
interests of the publisher.

Thank you in advance if someone can help me understand why JATS XML DOIs are
not common.

-Castedo



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