Deceased status

[JGilbert-eLife]

Description

An indicator that an author is deceased.

User stories

Author

• (1) As an author, I want to be able to see if an author has been marked as deceased so that I can check this is correct.

Production staff

• (2) As production staff, I want to be able to mark an author as deceased so that I can indicate this status when publishing the article.
• (3) As production staff, I want to be able to remove the deceased status from an author so that I can correct errors.

But what if . . . ?

Consideration

• This will hopefully be a rarely used optional attribute, but it is required from time to time.
• Usually, deceased author status will be known from submission. However, it has and can come in after submission/acceptance, so we need to be able to edit the status.

XML requirements

Deceased status is captured with a deceased="yes" attribute on the contrib element. This is currently linked to a footnote containing the content which will be pulled out and displayed against that author, but we would prefer just to have the attribute:

<contrib deceased="yes">
               <name>
                    <surname>Atherden</surname>
                    <given-names>Frederick P</given-names>
               </name>
</contrib>

Mock ups

Proposal

[michael]

Would make sense to exclude the footnote from TextureJATS and only have the deceased flag set. If needed the translation could provide both the flag + a generated footnote with the content. This would make sense to avoid redundancy, but only works if the content of the deceased footnote is fixed (you can't enter custom text). Is that the case?

Does JATS4R specify how authors should be marked as deceased? Did not find a sample.

[Melissa37]

Would make sense to exclude the footnote from TextureJATS and only have the deceased flag set. If needed the translation could provide both the flag + a generated footnote with the content. This would make sense to avoid redundancy, but only works if the content of the deceased footnote is fixed (you can't enter custom text). Is that the case?

Yes agreed, we'd need to agree on text!

Does JATS4R specify how authors should be marked as deceased? Did not find a sample.

Nope

[michael]

Ok, then please specify the text and we can provide a proposal for this.

[Melissa37]

Ok, then please specify the text and we can provide a proposal for this.

Maybe a tick box for Texture could work for this feature? It's a status. For eLife we just need the attribute in the XML to appear for us somehow, no need for a footnote of text to appear This is one we can discuss on the call if it's confusing.

@NickDuf

[michael]

Well then this is already implemented. :)