Remarks

The contributor writing on-behalf-of may also have a separate, different affiliation. For example, a physician affiliated with Johns Hopkins Hospital writing for the National Cancer Institute would be tagged as:

  <on-behalf-of>National Cancer Institute</on-behalf-of>

and the physician’s affiliation would be tagged as usual as:

  <aff>Johns Hopkins Hospital</aff>

The <on-behalf-of> element is akin to a “role” the person is playing with respect to the organization. Thus, this element joins the related element <role> as a way to describe the particular contribution of a contributor. The <role> element will say that a person is an “Editor” or “Associate Editor”, and the <on-behalf-of> element will state that this editing was undertaken as a representative of a group or organization, typically capturing all text associated with the organization (see “for” in the example below):

  <contrib>
    <name><surname>Smith</surname>
      <given-names>J.D.</given-names>
    </name>
    <on-behalf-of>for the Cardiac Research Group</on-behalf-of>
  </contrib>

Conversion Note: Some Tag Sets identify what this Tag Set calls “on-behalf-of” content as a Collaborative (Group) Author or Editor <collab>. In other tag sets, the association “on-behalf-of” may be tagged as a <role> rather than as a specific <on-behalf-of>. It is therefore also acceptable (although not best practice) to tag the example as:

  <contrib>
    <name><surname>Smith</surname>
      <given-names>J.D.</given-names>
    </name>
    <role>for the Cardiac Research Group</role>
  </contrib>