Part B: Technical Recommendations of Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials (NISO RP-15-201x) has been issued for public comment until September 15, 2012.
The draft currently available for comment includes the recommendations from the Technical Working Group; the Business Group draft recommendations were issued earlier this year. Following the current public comment period, the two parts will be finalized and combined into the final Recommended Practice.
The Technical Recommendations address issues with persistent identifiers, metadata, file formats, and packaging with the goal of ensuring that Integral Supplemental Material--essential for understanding the article--can be preserved at the same level as the article. The recommendations provide guidance to ensure such materials will be available in conjunction with, and as long, as the relevant journal article.
In support of the recommendations, the Working Group has developed additional materials including a metadata schema, a tag library, and tagged examples. This supporting documentation is also available for review during the comment period.
Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Part B: Technical Recommendations, the supporting documentation, and an online commenting form are available from the NISO website at: www.niso.org/workrooms/supplemental. Publishers, authors, librarians, abstracting and indexing services, and repository administrators are all encouraged to review and comment on this draft.
Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
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