Article XML Header

An Article XML Header contains the tagged metadata for an article, such as the article title, author information, journal and issue. The full text of the article is not included. An XML Header may be tagged using either the <tf:header> element, or the <front> element. It is important that the <body> element is not present in XML Header files. Article XML Headers should include:

  • Journal Metadata
  • Issue Metadata
  • Status & Tracking Information
  • Article Metadata, including:
    • Article identifiers: DOI and Article ID
    • Article Type
    • Section Heading (if available)
    • Article Title and Subtitle
    • Authors, Affiliations, Biographies
    • Copyright/License Information
    • Control date (and cover date if available)
    • Abstract (if available)
    • History Dates (if available)
    • Pagination and Article Sequence (if available)
    • Keywords (if available)
    • Related article links (if available)
  • References (if available and required)

References may be included in header files. Typically, for retrodigitization projects references should be included, and for just-accepted article tagging references should not be included in header files. However, this may vary by journal or office.

Example

This example is an XML Header for a retrodigitized article. More or less article metadata may need to be captured depending on the article and the project requirements.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO646-US"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//TF//DTD JATS (Z39.96) v1.0 Taylor and Francis Journal Content v1.0//EN" "http://cats.informa.com/tfjats/1.0/dtd/tfjats1.dtd">
<article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:tf="http://cats.informa.com/tfjats" xmlns="http://jats.nlm.nih.gov" tf:schema-version="1.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="Article">
   <tf:article-status stage="final">
      <tf:tagger name="VendorName"/>
   </tf:article-status>
   <tf:header>
      <journal-meta>
         <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">VHIM</journal-id>
         <journal-id journal-id-type="title-id">vhim20</journal-id>
         <journal-title-group>
            <journal-title>Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History</journal-title>
         </journal-title-group>
         <issn pub-type="ppub">0161-5440</issn>
         <issn pub-type="epub">1940-1906</issn>
         <publisher>
            <publisher-name>Routledge</publisher-name>
         </publisher>
      </journal-meta>
      <article-meta>
         <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">10594042</article-id>
         <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1080/01615440.1980.10594042</article-id>
         <article-categories>
            <series-title content-type="article-type">Article</series-title>
         </article-categories>
         <title-group>
            <article-title>On Measuring Transitions And Turning Points</article-title>
         </title-group>
         <contrib-group>
            <contrib contrib-type="author">
               <name>
                  <surname>Watkins</surname>
                  <given-names>Susan Cotts</given-names>
               </name>
               <xref ref-type="aff" rid="AF0001"/>
            </contrib>
            <aff id="AF0001">
               <institution><tf:department>Department of Sociology</tf:department>, <tf:institution-name>Yale University</tf:institution-name></institution>
            </aff>
         </contrib-group>
         <pub-date date-type="control" iso-8601-date="1980-07-01"/>
         <pub-date date-type="cover">
            <string-date>Summer 1980</string-date>
         </pub-date>
         <volume>13</volume>
         <issue>3</issue>
         <fpage seq="4">181</fpage>
         <lpage>187</lpage>
         <permissions>
            <copyright-holder>Taylor and Francis Group</copyright-holder>
         </permissions>
         <self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="VHIM_A_10594042_O.pdf"/>
         <counts>
            <page-count count="7"/>
         </counts>
      </article-meta>
   </tf:header>
</article>