eml-literature

[Owen Eddins]

Question 1:

In the book complex type we have totalPages, totalFigures, totalTables.  totalPages I can understand.  I could see where someone would want to know that a book is of a certain length plus its easy to get this info you just turn to the back of the book.  But why is it important that we document that the number of Tables and Figures in a book?  Is anyone really going to count the number of Tables and Figures in a book?

Question 2:

EndNote has the reference type Book Section which takes care of chapter.  Remember we have a reference type in eml called chapter.  But Book Section has a finer granularity.  So for example the section of a book being referenced could be a section of a chapter.  So the reference could be Book chapter 15 section 1 (15.1)  rather that all of chapter 15.  Or table 15.7 could be referenced and so on.  Would this be useful to have this level of granularity.  The reason I'm asking is that we've already implied it is because we have a chapter reference type.  So if folks think this is useful I'd like to propose that we get rid of Chapter altogether and add an optional <section> element to book, article, edited book, report and so on.   This will give us this finer granularity to what we are citing.


Owen


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