This document discusses considerations for supplemental journal article materials. It outlines the scope of work for the NISO/NFAIS working group on supplemental data, including metadata standards, persistent identifiers, granularity of relationships, and archiving. The document notes that properly designating supplemental materials as integral, additional, or related can impact peer review, editing, discoverability, hosting, and preservation. It also discusses metadata complexities like heterogeneous file formats, assigning metadata at different granularity levels, and equivalency relationships between representations. Contact information is provided for learning more.
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Schwarzman-CSE2011
1. Supplemental Data:
Questions and Considerations
Alexander (Sasha) Schwarzman
Information Systems Analyst
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Co-chair, TWG
NISO / NFAIS Supplemental Journal Article Material
Working Group
2. Contents
Supplemental material: Deluge
Integral, Additional, Related: So what?
NISO/NFAIS WG: Whats in and out of scope?
TWG Charge
Metadata: Basics
Metadata: Complexities
More info and contact
7. TWG Charge
Metadata, persistent identifiers, granularity
Citing, linking to and from, references within
Archiving, preservation, migration
Packaging, exchange, delivery
Accessibility
8. Metadata: Basics
Article being supplemented (main article)
Function: integral, additional, related (?)
Descriptive metadata
IDs, contributors, title, language, summary, subject
descriptors, rights/permissions, funding, accessibility, etc.
Physical metadata
File name, format, size, date, mimetype/subtype, created
with, application requirements, validity check, ext. link, etc.
9. Metadata: Complexities
Heterogeneity: a single supplemental ZIP, TAR, or PDF may
contain multiple files. Some may be Integral; others, Additional.
Content granularity: assign metadata to supplemental material
as a whole? Individual objects? Object groups? All?
Relationship granularity: identify relationship to the article as a
whole or to its individual components (to Table 4, to Fig. 7)?
Equivalency relationship: a single chemical structure or a
protein may have multiple representations, e.g., a table, a
figure, and an interactive application. One may be primary;
each may have different preservation requirements.
10. More info and contact
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/supplemental
http://www.agu.org/dtd/Presentations/sup-mat/
sschwarzman@agu.org