Re: journal article for next call?

> 
>> We need
>>> 
>>> "pagination" rather than Book's "numberOfPages" because there is no
>>> way of knowing if the pagination is continuing or not with a plain
>>> Integer value.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Even "numberOfPages", as I pointed out earlier, is not appropriate for
>> library book cataloging. ONIX includes number of pages, but library data
>> contains pagination. In the OpenURL schema for journals there are start
>> page, end page (for where they are separated and presumably numeric) and
>> "pages" for the information as a character string. (I'd love to know the
>> stats on usage of those!)
>> 
>> http://alcme.oclc.org/openurl/servlet/OAIHandler/extension?verb=GetMetadata&metadataPrefix=mtx&identifier=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal
>> 
>> I presume that the library cataloging treatment of "pagination" is not
>> widely used elsewhere.
> 
> It does have some usage in wikipedia, both in the Pagination article
> (surprise, heh) and the Page Numbering article. But if we switch over
> to citations as the domain of interest, "pagination", and "page(s)"
> are used in describing APA format in at least one guide [1] and "Page
> Numbers" is used for MLA in a different (library sourced) guide [2]. I
> like "pagination" as a pretty precise term that starts with "pag*" and
> avoids the pluralization that schema.org appears to be trying to avoid
> in general that would result from "pageNumbers" or "pages". We could
> make those singular, but most of the time the property will be
> referring to more than one page... and somewhere the universe will
> shudder!
> 

As far as I'm aware generally library practice throws the pagination with other aspects of 'extent'  so I'm not sure how far we need to worry about these (the way libraries express pagination of books vs the way they express extent)  - this may suggest a more general property (cf dc:extent of course)

I think OpenURL has the right idea in terms of having start/end page as specific things outside a more textual description of pages. However this start/end ignores the issue that for an article (whether in a journal or a newspaper) are not necessarily continuous. This is something that citaitons styles and reference management tools tend to have to handle. I know for example in RefWorks they have a 'start page' and 'other pages' rather than start/end.

Owen