Z39.98-2012 Periodicals Vocabulary

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About this vocabulary

This RDF vocabulary contains terms for use primarily in the context of the NISO Z39.98-2012 Newsfeeds Aggregator profile. It defines terms for semantic inflection of document content, and terms for article-level metadata.

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Document last modified: 2012-12-19. Refer to the revision history for details.

Article and section types

news

An article or group of articles that contains current or recent news of either general interest or on a specific topic

feature

An article which discusses a selected issue in-depth

review

An evaluation of a publication or other item.

An advertisement.

editorial

An article stating opinions or giving perspectives.

commentary

An article or posting containing commentary on a publication or other item.

classifieds

Classified advertisements.

weather

The weather forecast.

sports

The sports section.

Article content structures

headline

The heading or title of an article

byline

Indicates the names of the author(s) of an article or story, sometimes also giving credit for accompanying resources or information

dateline

Indicates the time and/or place where an article or story was reported, occurred or was written

lead

An initial segment of an article introducing and/or summarizing the content

deck

A teaser segment near the title of an article.

kicker

A lead-out segment at the end of an article.

continuation

A reference to another part of the publication which contains the continuation of the current article

Inherits from:
http://www.daisy.org/z3998/2012/vocab/structure/#continuation
continuation-of

A reference to a previous part of the publication that contains the initial part of the article that the current article is a continuation of

Inherits from:
http://www.daisy.org/z3998/2012/vocab/structure/#continuation-of

Article aggregation metadata

This set of article metadata terms are intended for use in aggregation contexts to maintain information about the location of source content segments, and to describe intended locations in the aggregation being built.

positionSequence

Holds ordinal information about the article within its parent section/sub section. For example, a value of 2 means that the article is the second article in its parent section/sub section. Is only relevant in instances where the instance document is being used to deliver a single article, or a collection of articles for one or more publications.

positionSection

Holds ordinal information about the parent section and or sub section(s) within a publication, that an article appears in. For example, a value of 1.2 means that an article appears in a section that is the first section in the publication, and a sub section that is the second subsection within the section;is only relevant in instances where the particular instance document is being used to deliver a single article, or a collection of articles for one or more publications.

Datatype: xsd:decimal.

positionPage

Holds information about the page that the article appears on in the publication. Is only relevant in instances where the Feeds Profile document instance is being used to deliver a single article, or a collection of articles for one or more publications.

Datatype: xsd:integer.

revision

Holds revision information about the article. Is relevant in instances where the Feeds Profile instance document is being used to deliver a single article, or a collection of articles for one or more publications.

destEdition

Holds information about an edition of a publication that the article is meant to appear in. Is only relevant in instances where the instance document is being used to deliver a single article, or a collection of articles for one or more publications; can appear more than once inside the Article head; each occurrence of destEdition holds information about a particular edition of a publication that the article is meant to appear in.

destPublication

Holds information about a publication that the article is meant to appear in; is only relevant in contexts where the instance document is being used to deliver a single article, or a collection of articles for one or more publications; can appear more than once inside the Article head; each occurrence of destPublication holds information about a particular publication that the article is meant to appear in.

sourceEdition

Holds information about an edition of a publication that the article is originally a part of; is only relevant in instances where the instance document is being used to deliver a single article, or a collection of articles for one or more publications; can appear more than once inside the Article head; each occurrence of sourceEdition holds information about a particular edition of a publication that the article is originally a part of.

sourcePublication

Holds information about a publication that the article is originally a part of; is only relevant in contexts where the instance document is being used to deliver a single article, or a collection of articles for one or more publications; can appear more than once inside the Article head; each occurrence of sourcePublication holds information about a particular publication that the article is originally a part of.