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Comment 165
New (Unresolved)
NISO Z39.96-201x, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite (Draft Standard for Trial Use) (Revision 0)
Comment Submitted by
Nikos Markantonatos
2011-09-29 11:43:03
The current <counts> model is rather restrictive in the sense that the Tag Suite imposes a specific constrained set of such statistical counts for an article:

- figures
- tables
- equations
- references
- pages
- words

In practice, publishers may wish to expand on this list of count statistics in a number of ways. For example:

- images (not only those in figures)
- citations (there may be more than one citation per reference)
- sentences
- characters (bytecount)
- sections
- contributors
Submitter Proposed Solution
Instead of limiting the choice of count statistics with predefined tags, like <fig-count>, <table-count>, etc, the JATS Tag Suite could employ a uniform tag <count> under <counts> which takes a single required attribute @content-type with a list of recommended values, such as "figure", "table", "equation", "reference", etc.

This change will make the <counts> tag more extensible and potentially more useful. It will also lighten the JATS Tag Suite from a number of pre-specified elements like <fig-count>, <table-count>, etc, as well as from the @count attribute.

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