Abstract
Increasingly, authors are submitting additional content along with their papers for publication. These supplemental materials can range in type from supporting narratives to datasets, to visualizations and executable programs. There is no consensus about how best to handle these materials: whether they should be reviewed, edited and markedâ€up by publishers; how to cite them; or how to preserve them. In partnership with the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has launched a project to develop a consensusâ€based recommended practice on how best to incorporate supplemental journal materials into the publication stream.
Highlights
Supplemental materials and resulting challengesThere has always been a variety of additional content that authors have submitted along with their articles to the journal publisher
On 22 January 2010, the roundtable discussion was held under the sponsorship of National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) and with meeting space and logistical support generously provided by The American Psychological Association (APA)
The NISO/NFAIS working group will do outreach to additional organizations as other relevant projects are identified
Summary
On 22 January 2010, the roundtable discussion was held under the sponsorship of NISO and NFAIS and with meeting space and logistical support generously provided by The American Psychological Association (APA). The consensus of the group was that work needed to be undertaken to develop community recommended practices for definitions of and methods for handling supplemental materials. There is an absolute need for a common vocabulary of relevant terms Beyond these general recommendations, additional work elements that the recommended practices working group will need to address were identified. To achieve the goal of creating such a ‘Recommended Practice’, the NISO and NFAIS leadership are following the roundtable group’s recommendation that three groups be established to undertake the work These groups will be: Stakeholders Interest Group – This group will comprise stakeholders who would be directly affected by the recommendations and want to be kept apprised of the work, but would not be involved in the actual development of the Recommended Practice. Technical Working Group – This second small group will develop the recommendations around issues such as syntax, linking, interoperability, markup and metadata
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