Name of an institution or organization (for example, university, corporation) with which a contributor is affiliated.
All levels of a multi-tier organization are listed within a single <aff> element; for example, a program, a department, and a university may be part of the same <aff>. Similarly, both a division and a corporation would be inside one <aff>.
Best Practice: In a typical case, the @id attribute of an <aff> element will be pointed to from one or more <contrib> elements, establishing the linkage between them.
Even if the explicitly tagged numbers or symbols for author linkages are preserved in conversion, the ID/IDREF linking mechanism should be maintained or created during conversion.
If an archive wishes to record divisional distinctions made by a publisher, such as an “<institution>” element with “<dept>” and “<office>” sub-elements for the affiliation, the embedded divisions could be converted to this Tag Set using <named-content> elements:
<aff>
<institution content-type="edu">
University of Frostbite Falls
<named-content content-type="dept">Dept of Campus Security
</named-content>
<named-content content-type="dept">Dept of Moose and Squirrel
Security</named-content>
<named-content content-type="office">Office of the Acting Dean
</named-content>
</institution>
</aff><!ELEMENT aff (#PCDATA %aff-elements;)* >
(#PCDATA | addr-line | country | fax | institution | phone | email | ext-link | uri | inline-supplementary-material | related-article | related-object | hr | bold | italic | monospace | overline | overline-start | overline-end | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | underline-start | underline-end | alternatives | inline-graphic | private-char | chem-struct | inline-formula | tex-math | mml:math | abbrev | milestone-end | milestone-start | named-content | styled-content | fn | target | xref | sub | sup | x | break | label)*
Any combination of:
<aff-alternatives>, <article-meta>, <collab>, <contrib>, <contrib-group>, <front-stub>, <journal-meta>, <person-group>, <sig-block>
In metadata:
...
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name><surname>Weinstein</surname>
<given-names>Melvin P.</given-names></name>
<aff>Departments of Medicine and Pathology, UMDNJ-Robert
Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New
Jersey 08901-0019</aff>
<address>
<institution>Departments of Medicine and Pathology,
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School</institution>
<addr-line>1 Robert Wood Johnson Pl.</addr-line>
<addr-line>New Brunswick, NJ 08901-0019</addr-line>
<country>USA</country>
<phone>(732) 235-7713</phone>
<fax>(732) 235-7951</fax>
<email>weinstei@umdnj.edu</email>
</address>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
...
In a contributor group in article metadata:
... <article-meta> <title-group> <article-title>Systematic review of day hospital care for elderly people</article-title> </title-group> <contrib-group> <contrib contrib-type="author"> <name><surname>Forster</surname> <given-names>Anne Williams</given-names> </name> <role>research physiotherapist</role> <aff id="StLukes">Department of Health Care for the Elderly, St Luke’s Hospital, Bradford BD5 0NA</aff> <aff id="RoyalInf"> Academic Section of Geriatric Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G4 0SF</aff> </contrib> ... </contrib-group> <permissions> <copyright-statement>Copyright © 1999, British Medical Journal</copyright-statement> <copyright-year>1999</copyright-year> <copyright-holder>British Medical Journal</copyright-holder> </permissions> <abstract> <p>To examine the effectiveness of day hospital attendance in prolonging independent living for elderly people.</p> </abstract> </article-meta> ...
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