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<article-version-alternatives> Article Current Version Alternatives

A container element to hold multiple <article-version> elements, when a single article has more than one simultaneous version identifier and all should be recorded. For example, an article may be described with both a NISO-RP-8-2008 JAV version phrase and a publisher or aggregator version number.

Usage/Remarks

A single article should be given only a single version identifier in any given system. This alternatives element is intended to hold version identifiers from different systems that all apply to an article at the same time.

JAV and Other Version-naming Schemes Best Practice

A publisher wishing to use NISO JAV, or any other formal versioning vocabulary/ontology, should name the vocabulary using the @vocab attribute and provide a URI or other identifier for the vocabulary using the @vocab-identifier attribute. The @vocab-term attribute can provide the term source canonical version, if the element content does not, and the @vocab-term-identifier attribute may point to the term, if appropriate. For example: 
<article-version-alternatives>
  <article-version 
   article-version-type="version-of-record"
   vocab="NISO-RP-8-2008"
   vocab-identifier="https://www.niso.org/publications/rp/RP-8-2008.pdf"
   />
  <article-version
    article-version-type="done" 
    vocab="mulberry-ontology"
    vocab-term="finished">Finished</article-version>
</article-version-alternatives>
Related Elements
Prior or subsequent versions of an article should be tagged as <related-article> elements.
Attributes

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
Models and Context
May be contained in
<article-meta>, <event>, <event-desc>, <front-stub>
Description
<article-version> Article Current Version Status or Number, one or more
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  article-version-alternatives
                        (article-version+)                           >
Tagged Sample

Two versions (one per system)

...
<article-meta>
 <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">181325198</article-id>
 <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1073/pnas.181325198</article-id>
 <article-version-alternatives>
  <article-version vocab="JAV" 
    vocab-identifier="http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/RP-8-2008.pdf"
    vocab-term="Version of Record"
    article-version-type="VoR"  
   >Version of Record</article-version>
  <article-version 
    article-version-type="host-accession-number"  
   >2017-06-26-VoR</article-version>
 </article-version-alternatives>
 ...
</article-meta>
...
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