Container Entity Reference
Fields
name
(string, required): The title of the publication, as used in international indexing services. Eg, "Journal of Important Results". Not necessarily in the native language, but also not necessarily in English. Alternative titles (and translations) can be stored in "extra" metadata (see below)container_type
(string): eg, journal vs. conference vs. book series. Controlled vocabulary is described below.publication_status
(string): whether actively publishing, never published anything, or discontinued. Controlled vocabularity is described below.publisher
(string): The name of the publishing organization. Eg, "Society of Curious Students".issnl
(string): an external identifier, with registration controlled by the ISSN organization. Registration is relatively inexpensive and easy to obtain (depending on world region), so almost all serial publications have one. The ISSN-L ("linking ISSN") is one of either the print (issp
) or electronic (issne
) identifiers for a serial publication; not all publications have both types of ISSN, but many do, which can cause confusion. The ISSN master list is not gratis/public, but the ISSN-L mapping is.issne
(string): Electronic ISSN ("ISSN-E")issnp
(string): Print ISSN ("ISSN-P")wikidata_qid
(string): external linking identifier to a Wikidata entity.
extra
Fields
abbrev
(string): a commonly used abbreviation for the publication, as used in citations, following the [ISO 4][] standard. Eg, "Journal of Polymer Science Part A" -> "J. Polym. Sci. A"acronym
(string): acronym of publication name. Usually all upper-case, but sometimes a very terse, single-word truncated form of the name (eg, a pun).coden
(string): an external identifier, the [CODEN code][]. 6 characters, all upper-case.default_license
(string, slug): short name (eg, "CC-BY-SA") for the default/recommended license for works published in this containeroriginal_name
(string): native name (ifname
is translated)platform
(string): hosting platform: OJS, wordpress, scielo, etcmimetypes
(array of string): formats that this container publishes all works under (eg, 'application/pdf', 'text/html')first_year
(integer): first year of publicationlast_year
(integer): final year of publication (implies that container is no longer active)languages
(array of strings): ISO codes; the first entry is considered the "primary" language (if that makes sense)country
(string): ISO abbreviation (two characters) for the country this container is published inaliases
(array of strings): significant alternative names or abbreviations for this container (not just capitalization/punctuation)region
(string, slug): continent/world-region (vocabulary is TODO)discipline
(string, slug): highest-level subject aread (vocabulary is TODO)urls
(array of strings): known homepage URLs for this container (first in array is default)issnp
(deprecated; string): Print ISSN; deprecated now that there is a top-level fieldissne
(deprecated; string): Electronic ISSN; deprecated now that there is a top-level field
Additional fields used in analytics and "curration" tracking:
doaj
(object)as_of
(string, ISO datetime): datetime of most recent check; if not set, not actually in DOAJseal
(bool): has DOAJ sealwork_level
(bool): whether work-level publications are registered with DOAJarchive
(array of strings): preservation archives
road
(object)as_of
(string, ISO datetime): datetime of most recent check; if not set, not actually in ROAD
kbart
(object)lockss
,clockss
,portico
,jstor
etc (object)year_spans
(array of arrays of integers (pairs)): year spans (inclusive) for which the given archive has preserved this containervolume_spans
(array of arrays of integers (pairs)): volume spans (inclusive) for which the given archive has preserved this container
sherpa_romeo
(object):color
(string): the SHERPA/RoMEO "color" of the publisher of this container
doi
: TODO: include list of prefixes and which (if any) DOI registrar is useddblp
(object):prefix
(string): prefix of dblp keys published as part of this container (eg, 'journals/blah' or 'conf/xyz')
ia
(object): Internet Archive specific fieldssim
(object): same format askbart
preservation above; coverage in microfilm collectionlongtail
(bool): is this considered a "long-tail" open access venue
publisher_type
(string): controlled vocabulary
For KBART and other "coverage" fields, we "over-count" on the assumption that works with "in-progress" status will soon actually be preserved. Elements of these arrays are either an integer (means that single year is preserved), or an array of length two (meaning everything between the two numbers (inclusive) is preserved).
container_type
Vocabulary
journal
proceedings
conference-series
book-series
blog
magazine
trade
test
publication_status
Vocabulary
active
: ongoing publication of new releasessuspended
: publication has stopped, but may continue in the futurediscontinued
: publication has permanently ceasedvanished
: publication has stopped, and public traces have vanished (eg, publisher website has disappeared with no notice)never
: no works were ever published under this containerone-time
: releases were all published as a one-time even. for example, a single instance of a conference, or a fixed-size book series