XML coversheet
Introduction
River Valley have a XML complaint production tracking system known as `RVMS' which means `River Valley Management System'. It can import XML coversheets and bookin a new job. It can render the coversheet. So we request XML coversheets from our clients.
What is XML coversheet?
XML coversheet means, coversheets in XML format which are accompanied with the manuscript for typesetting. Metadata is tagged using XML elements.
Advantages of XML coversheets
XML coversheet poses lot of advantages.
- All meta information are tagged properly.
- This can easily be generated from manuscript submission systems without any re-keying.
- This can be used for booking in an article in any XML compliant production tracking system.
- The tagged information can be extracted or re-used in subsequent stages of production.
- Since the original data is used, typos can be avoided which eliminates further checking of metadata while proof-reading.
- Using XSLT, these coversheets can be rendered in a browser.
Specimen
You may download a specimen XML coversheet and RVMS.xsd
from here.
Elements and attributes
- purchase_order
Top-level element
<geshi lang="xml"> <purchase_order
xmlns="http://www.river-valley.com/xml/schema/purchase_order/2012.1/RVMS" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.river-valley.com/xml/schema/purchase_order/2012.1/RVMS http://www.river-valley.com/xml/schema/purchase_order/2012.1/RVMS.xsd" schema-version="2012.1">
</geshi>
- order_meta
To hold the details about an order which may include publisher's name, order_date, due_date, stage.
- publisher
Publisher's name. For example PeerJ
.
- order_date
The date on which the purchase order is created.
- timestamp
The timestamp shall be in the format 2012-12-18T12:24:12.000
.
- due_date
The date on which the proof is due back to the publisher.
- stage
The milestone (or stage) for which the purchase order is sent. This has two attributes namely step
and version
.
<geshi lang="xml"> <order_meta>
<publisher>PeerJ</publisher> <order_date> <timestamp>2012-12-18T12:24:12.000</timestamp> </order_date> <due_date> <timestamp>2012-12-31T12:24:12.000</timestamp> </due_date> <stage step="proof" version="1"/>
</order_meta>
</geshi>
- article
Holds metadata related to the article. The main elements are journal_meta, article_meta, manuscript_meta, other_info, remarks
- journal_meta
Contains journal_id, journal_name, issn
- journal_id
Provide journal id here, usually four or five letter journal code. For example, SPMI
for Superlattices and Microstructures
.
- journal_name
Provide full name of the journal.
- issn
This has an attribute type
with values epub
and ppub
. epub
is for online issn and ppub
is for print issn.
<geshi lang="xml">
<journal_meta> <journal_id>peerj</journal_id> <journal_name>Journal of PeerJ</journal_name> <issn type="ppub">xxxx-xxxx</issn> <issn type="epub">yyyy-yyyy</issn> </journal_meta>
</geshi>
- article_meta
Details related to the article like doi, copyright, corresponding author etc.
- article_id[@pubid]
Article id provided by the publisher, usually numerals only.
<geshi lang="xml">
<article_id type="pubid">001</article_id>
</geshi>
- article_id[@doi]
The DOI of the article.
<geshi lang="xml">
<article_id type="doi">10.1111/PeerJ.2012.001</article_id>
</geshi>
- copyright[@year]
The copyright year and copyright owner of the article.
<geshi lang="xml">
<copyright year="2012">PeerJ</copyright>
</geshi>
- article_category
The type
attribute should hold two or three letters abbreviation for each article type. For example RP
for Research Papers
, EDI
for Editorial
etc. For example
<geshi lang="xml">
<article_category type="RP">Research Paper</article_category>
</geshi>
- article_title
Full title of the article. <geshi lang="xml">
<article_title>First PeerJ Article</article_title>
</geshi>
- first_author
First author's name.
<geshi lang="xml">
<first_author>John Smith</first_author>
</geshi>
- corr_author
This element has a type
attribute with values proofto
, inarticle
and all
.
proofto
— Author to whom the proof should be sent.
inarticle
— Corresponding author's details which needs to appear in the document.
all — This is used when the corresponding author's details which should come in the article and the proof should be sent to is same.
- name
Name of the corresponding author.
Email of the corresponding author.
<geshi lang="xml">
<corr_author type="proofto"> <name>Dr. Mary John</name> <email>m.john@reference.com</email> </corr_author> <corr_author type="inarticle"> <name>Dr. John Smith</name> <email>j.smith@university.com</email> </corr_author>
</geshi>
OR
<geshi lang="xml"> <corr_author type="all">
<name>Dr. Mary John</name> <email>m.john@reference.com</email> </corr_author>
</geshi>
- history_date
Has an attribute type
. The values shall be received, revised
and accepted
.
<geshi lang="xml">
<history_date type="received"> <date day="15" month="12" yr="2012"/> </history_date> <history_date type="revised"> <date day="16" month="12" yr="2012"/> </history_date> <history_date type="accepted"> <date day="17" month="12" yr="2012"/> </history_date>
</geshi>
- copy-edit-content
This element has one attribute required
. The values are yes
or no
.
<geshi lang="xml">
<copy-edit-content required="no"/>
</geshi>
- supplemental_info
Holds information regarding supplemental material.
- file
Details of supplemental material.
- filename
Filename of the supplemental material.
- type
File format. Audio, Video etc.
- title
Caption to the supplemental material.
<geshi lang="xml">
<supplemental_info> <file> <filename>Supplemental001S1</filename> <type>MOV</type> <title>This is video file.</title> </file> <file> <filename>Supplemental001S2</filename> <type>WAV</type> <title>This is an audio file.</title> </file> </supplemental_info>
</geshi>
- manuscript_meta
To hold details of the manuscript submitted.
- no_mns_pages
Number of manuscript pages submitted.
<geshi lang="xml">
<no_mns_pages>12</no_mns_pages>
</geshi>
- source
Source file submitted. TeX, Word or PDF.
<geshi lang="xml">
TeX
</geshi>
- figures
Contain one or more figure details.
- figure
Contains figure_nr, figure_type
and fig_parts
- figure_nr
Figure number. Figure 1, Figure 2 etc.
- figure_type
Should be COLOUR
or BW
- figure_parts
Option element. Should be provided if that particular figure has part figures. Enter the number of figure parts.
<geshi lang="xml">
<figures> <figure> <figure_nr>1</figure_nr> <figure_type>COLOUR</figure_type> <fig_parts>4</fig_parts> </figure> <figure> <figure_nr>2</figure_nr> <figure_type>BW</figure_type> </figure> </figures>
</geshi>
- tables
Number of tables.
<geshi lang="xml">
<tables>1</tables>
</geshi>
- other_info
Contains fastrack
and proof_to_author
.
- fastrack
If the article is fastrack, give YES
, otherwise NO
.
- proof_to_author
If the proof need not be send to the author, then please give NO
. Otherwise YES
.
<geshi lang="xml">
<other_info> <fastrack>YES</fastrack> <proof_to_author>YES</proof_to_author> </other_info>
</geshi>
- remarks
Any special remarks to the setter can be added here.
<geshi lang="xml">
<remarks> Any special remarks to the typesetter. </remarks>
</geshi>