In the example XML for a journal XML batch submission here, the articles and the issue data sit at the same level in the XML hierarchy. Given that a batch could in principle include articles from many different issues, and also many different issues, how would we associate the issue metadata with the specific articles belonging to that issue?
Should the wrapping tag in the example be seen as enclosing metadata for an individual issue of the journal, rather than a broader set?
Hi Rob,
Essentially, yes.
In practice, most members submit either a single article per batch (with the journal- and issue-level metadata that pertains to that article), or all articles from a given issue per batch.
However, as you see in that example submission, you can include metadata for articles from multiple issues, or even multiple journals in a single batch. But, everything within a set of <journal> tags would pertain to a single issue of a single journal, whether there is one <journal_article> or multiple <journal_article>s given per issue.
-Shayn