Video supplements

[JGilbert-eLife]

Description

eLife allows videos to be included as supplements to main figures.

User stories

Author

• (1) As an author, I want to be able to play a video supplement so that I can check that it is the correct video.
• (2) As an author, I want to be able to clearly see the relationship between a video supplement and the main figure with which it is associated so that I can check this has been captured correctly.
• (3) As an author, I want to be able to edit the title and legend for a video supplement so that I can fix any errors with the text.
• (4) As an author, I want to be able to add a reference or asset citation to a video supplement title and legend so that I can cite other articles or assets in this context.
• (5) As an author, I want to be able to clearly identify any source data or code that is directly associated with a video supplement so that I can confirm this relationship has been captured correctly.

Production staff

• (6) As production staff, I want to be able to replace a video supplement so that I can fix any issues with the video itself.
• (7) As production staff, I want to provide an explanation for why I am replacing a video so that I can record the reason for the change.
• (8) As production staff, I want to be able to add a new video supplement to the manuscript so that I can include new content at the request of the author.
• (9) As production staff, I want to be able to remove an existing video supplement on behalf of the author, so that the manuscript is up to date for publishing.

But what if . . . ?

Consideration

• The labelling scheme for video supplements is:
  • Figure 1
  • Figure 1—video 1
  • Figure 2
  • Figure 2—video 1
  • Figure 2—video 2
• At eLife, videos are currently hosted externally for display on our website, so if videos are added, replaced, deleted within the texture framework this information would need to be sent across to the host.
• Examples of video file types eLife has used in the past:
  • mov
  • avi
  • mp4
  • wmv
  • f4v
  • mpeg
  • m4v
  • 3gp

XML requirements

Videos which are supplements to figures are captured in the same fig-group as the corresponding main figure.

<fig-group>
    <fig id="fig1" position="float">
        <label>Figure 1.</label>
        <caption>
            <title>...</title>
            <p>...</p>
        </caption>
        <graphic xlink:href="..." mimetype="application" mime-subtype="postscript"/>
    </fig>
    <media id="fig1video1" xlink:href="http://static-movie-usa.glencoesoftware.com/mp4/10.7554/839/6eb7150a5e63d806971b60e5c01a0ad2f1002d7b/elife-44431-fig1-video1.mp4" mimetype="video" mime-subtype="mp4">
        <label>Figure 1—video 1.</label>
        <caption>
                <title><italic>Tg(prox1a:tagRFP;pou4f3:gfp)</italic> during regeneration.</title>
                <p>A dividing <italic>prox1a</italic>-positive cell downregulates <italic>prox1a:tagRFP</italic> and upregulates the hair cell marker <italic>pou4f3:gfp.</italic></p>
        </caption>
    </media>
</fig-group>

They have every XML requirement that videos do.

Mock ups

Proposal