XML and HTML for scholarly communications
Birkbeck. 27th March 2017.
Professor Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck, University of London
Three general formats used in scholarly journals
- XML (JATS)
- HTML
- PDF (variety of approaches: InDesign etc.)
Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) XML
- Journal-specific metadata
- Widely-used format
- Tools for automatic production very expensive
- Manual creation tricky
- Automatically converted to HTML by platforms
HTML
- Not semantically rich
- But: works anywhere
- WYSIWYG tools can produce bad markup, though
Effort/Labour Levels:
- JATS: High
- HTML: High/Moderate
- PDF: Minimal (Word export)
File format examples
Creating Basic HTML
- A plain-text editor
- An online editor, such as https://html-online.com/editor/
Creating JATS
- A plain-text editor
- Use the online HTML editor to create a basic framework, then adapt the tags
- Decide whether to used mixed-citation or element-citation mode
The End
Thank you!
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