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<collab> Collaborative (Group) Author (deprecated)

Group of contributors credited under a single name, such as an organization credited as a contributor. This element is deprecated.

Usage/Remarks

Avoid using <collab> to tag new documents; instead use <collab-name> to hold the name of the collaboration and <collab-wrap> (a <collab-name>(s) as well as a list of collaboration contributors).
Tagging a Contributor as a Collaboration
Two elements describe what JATS can record concerning a collaboration in the context of a <contrib>:
  • <collab-name> holds the name of the collaboration and no other content
  • <collab-wrap> holds the names of the individuals who comprise the collaboration as well as the name of the collaboration.
These elements may also be used within bibliographic references (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>).
History and Deprecation of <collab>
The <collab-name> and <collab-wrap> elements completely replace <collab>, which is now deprecated. Originally, <collab> was defined to hold just the name of a collaboration (the function now performed by <collab-name>). But over the years, JATS added more and more metadata (such as the names of the collaboration members) to <collab>, until it was full of many objects that were not the collaboration name and there was no element specifically associated with the collaboration name. Machine processing and interchange suffered. The new design tries to bring some semantic sense to describing a collaboration, by creating a new element specifically to hold the collaboration name (<collab-name>) and a wrapper element to include the collaboration contributors (<collab-wrap>).
Original (pre-deprecation) Remarks
This element may contain either a collaboration of individuals or the name of an organization (such as a laboratory, educational institution, corporation, or department) when such a unit acts as a contributor by, for example, authoring the work.
Not to be confused with the element <contrib-group> which is a container element that holds information such as the names and affiliations of a group of individual contributors.
Attributes
collab-type
hreflang
specific-use

Multi-lang Attributes

lang-focus
lang-focus-custom
lang-group
lang-source
lang-source-custom
lang-translate
lang-variant
lang-variant-custom

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
xml:lang

Linking Attributes

xlink:actuate
xlink:href
xlink:role
xlink:show
xlink:title
xlink:type

Namespaces

xmlns:xlink
Models and Context
May be contained in
<collab-alternatives>, <contrib>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <person-group>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>
Description
Any combination of:
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  collab       (#PCDATA %collab-elements;)*                 >
Expanded Content Model
(#PCDATA | bold | fixed-case | italic | monospace | overline | roman |
sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | ruby | sub | sup | addr-line | city | country | fax |
institution | institution-wrap | phone | postal-code | state | address | aff | aff-alternatives |
author-comment | bio | email | ext-link | on-behalf-of | role | uri |
xref)*
Tagged Samples
Committee as contributor
(<collab-name> used instead of deprecated <collab>) 
...
<contrib-group>
 <contrib contrib-type="author">
  <collab-name collab-type="committee">Technical Committee ISO/TC 108, 
   Subcommittee SC 2</collab-name>
 </contrib>
</contrib-group>
...
In citations
(<collab-name> used instead of deprecated <collab>)
Mixed citations
...
<ref id="B1">
 <mixed-citation publication-type="book">
  <collab-name>Research Unit of the Royal College of 
  Physicians and British Geriatric Society</collab-name>. 
  <source>Geriatric day hospitals: their role 
  and guidelines for good practice</source>. 
  <publisher-loc>London</publisher-loc>:
  <publisher-name>RCP</publisher-name>; 
  <year iso-8601-date="1994">1994</year>.
 </mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
...
<ref id="c25">
 <mixed-citation publication-type="report" publisher-type="government">
  <collab-name>Federal Highway Administration</collab-name> (FHWA). 
  (<year iso-8601-date="1992">1992</year>). “<part-title>Evaluating 
  scour at bridges</part-title>.” <source><italic>Hydr. Engrg. Circular  
  No. 18</italic></source>: <gov><italic>FHWA-IP-90-017</italic></gov>, 
  <publisher-name>Office of Engineering, Bridge Div.</publisher-name>, 
  <publisher-loc>Washington, D.C.</publisher-loc>
 </mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
Element citation
...
<ref>
 <element-citation publication-type="report">
  <collab-name>National High Blood Pressure Education Program
   (US)</collab-name>
  <source>The fourth report on the diagnosis, evaluation,
   and treatment of high blood pressure in children and
   adolescents</source>
  <edition>Rev. ed</edition>
  <publisher-loc>Bethesda (MD)</publisher-loc>
  <publisher-name>National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
   (US)</publisher-name>
  <year iso-8601-date="2005">2005</year>
  <size units="pages">48 p</size>
  <comment>(NIH publication; no. 05-5267)</comment>
 </element-citation>
</ref>
...