Common Tagging Practice
This chapter is as close as the Tag Library gets to a user guide to tagging JATS documents
using the Publishing Tag Set. It provides descriptions of common tagging practices
and guidance for specific tagging issues. Essays discuss JATS structures and the design
choices involved in tagging complex conceptual structures, for example, author affiliations
and keywords, which involve numerous choices among elements and attributes. These
essays are important for learning to use this Tag Set well.
Since there are as many different uses of this Tag Set as there are users, “Best
Practice” is an elusive concept, impossible to define for all users. But in many
situations there are common practices, and it is sometimes possible to explain several
good
practices, allowing an archive or publisher to determine if one practice fits their
situation. This section contains tagging write-ups, more extensive than is appropriate
for any
single element page, that offer such tagging advice and alternatives.
Since there are as many different uses of this Tag Set as there are users, “Best
Practice” is an elusive concept, impossible to define for all users. But in many
situations there are common practices, and it is sometimes possible to explain several
good
practices, allowing an archive or publisher to determine if one practice fits their
situation. This section contains tagging write-ups, more extensive than is appropriate
for any
single element page, that offer such tagging advice and alternatives.
Subsidiary sections: