Comment Details - National Information Standards Organization

#00163 Comment Details - z39-96-dsftu-final.pdf

Document Information
Title	NISO Z39.96-201x, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite
File Name	z39-96-dsftu-final.pdf	State	Final
Date Added	2011-03-30 07:39:41	Revision Number	0
Submitter Name	Cynthia Hodgson	Size	2MB

Comment Information
Summary	Add time element to date and date-in-citation elements	State (Disposition)	New (Unresolved)
Date Added	2011-09-29 04:00:13	Last Updated	2011-09-29 04:00:13
Submitter Name	Paul Donohoe	Assigned To	Unassigned
Company Name	Nature Publishing Group	Response	None
Interest Category		Category	N/A
Origin	Public Review	Section, Page, Line
Item		Item Description

Submitter Comment
NPG would like to be able to include timestamps to the publication dates of some of our articles. This would be particularly used for our news content where publishing embargoes specify a time as well as a date. These embargo times usually arise from external agencies, such as the publisher of the article being reported on. The embargo time is intended to inform readers exactly when an article was published. We would also like to include such timestamps in our citations.

Submitter Comment

NPG would like to be able to include timestamps to the publication dates of some of our articles. This would be particularly used for our news content where publishing embargoes specify a time as well as a date. These embargo times usually arise from external agencies, such as the publisher of the article being reported on. The embargo time is intended to inform readers exactly when an article was published.
We would also like to include such timestamps in our citations.

Submitter Proposed Solution
We would like to propose adding an optional "time" element to the "date" and "date-in-citation" elements. The "time" element would have the same attributes (@content-type, @specific-use, and @xml:lang) and content model (Text, numbers, or special characters) as the related elements "day", "month" and "year". We would propose that the documentation for this element recommend that the content be either a time or a date-time string in UTC format (ISO 8601 specifications), to ensure international conformity and applicability. The documentation could also recommend the @content-type attribute value be either "UTC" or "ISO-8601" to indicate this.

Submitter Proposed Solution

We would like to propose adding an optional "time" element to the "date" and "date-in-citation" elements. The "time" element would have the same attributes (@content-type, @specific-use, and @xml:lang) and content model (Text, numbers, or special characters) as the related elements "day", "month" and "year". We would propose that the documentation for this element recommend that the content be either a time or a date-time string in UTC format (ISO 8601 specifications), to ensure international conformity and applicability. The documentation could also recommend the @content-type attribute value be either "UTC" or "ISO-8601" to indicate this.