Schematron tool to enforce certain coherence checks to make sure JATScontent is according to Brill's requirements. We will from now on require all JATS files uploaded to the platform to validate against this script.

Download

Dowload JATS checker from Gitlab. For Oxygen users, it might make sense to create a validation scenario using the Gitlab link to the as source URL in order to make sure your version of the Schematron is up to date.

Release log

Expect this file to be updated regularly and become more precise in the future.

Planned future updates:

• Future updates will contain graphics assigned to errors to indicate severity of an error.
• More checks are going to be added as soon as we can identify potential issues.
• Embed suggested solutions to problems detected where applicable.
• Expect some bugfixing early in the rollout.

Version 1.0

Contains the following checks:

• article/@article-type must be "abstract", "addendum", "announcement", "article-commentary", "book-review", "books-received", "brief-report", "calendar", "case-report", "collection", "correction", "discussion", "dissertation", "editorial", "in-brief", "introduction", "letter", "meeting-report", "news", "obituary", "oration", "partial-retraction", "product-review", "rapid-communication", "reply", "reprint", "research-article", "retraction", "review-article" or "translation"
• articles with article-type "correction", "editorial", "introduction", "obituary", "partial-retraction", or "retraction" must have ali:free_to_read
• /article must have @xml:lang @dtd-version="1.0"
• ORCID (/contrib-id[@contrib-id-type='orcid']) has attributes authenticaded="yes" and matches regex https://orcid.org/[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9X]
• <= 1 /subtitle per (book-)title-group, <= 1 trans-subtitle per trans-title-group
• no empty attributes
• counts/@count must be numerical
• value of name/@name-style is "eastern", "western" or "given-only"
• /abbrev-journal-title must be specified and must have @abbrev-type="ltwa"
• issn/@publication-format must be specified, accepted values "print" or "online"
• ISSN and eISSN must match regex [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9X]
• eISSN must be specied
• DOI must be stated, prefix actually belongs to Brill, DOI matches regex ^10.\d{4,9}/[-._;()/:a-z0-9]+$', chapter doi prefixes identical to book DOI prefix
• article-id/@pub-id-type must be specified, values "EM" or "doi"
• article-title must be specified
• alt-title/@alt-title-type must be specified, values "toc" or "running-head", alt-title[@alt-title-type='toc'] must be stated
• /contrib must have @contrib-type, values "author", "translator", "editor"
• article-meta//contrib/@corresp only has accepted value "yes"
• article-meta//contrib/@deceased has accepted values "yes", "no"
• article-meta//contrib/@equal-contrib has accepted values "yes", "no"
• article-meta//institution-id must have @institution-id-type = 'ringgold'
• article-meta//pub-date/@date-type has accepted values "issue" or "article"
• pub-date/year must match [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]
• article-meta/fpage must have @specific-use='PDF' and @seq
• supplementary-material must have @xlink:href and @specific-use with accepted values "local" or "figshare"
• article-meta/history/date must have @date-type with value "received", "initial-decision", "rev-recd", "rev-request", "accepted", "version-of-record", "pub", "preprint", "retracted" or "corrected"
• article-meta/permissions must have /copyright-statement, /copyright-year, /copyright-holder, /license and /license/license-p
• article-meta/permissions/license must have @license-type with value "CCC" or "open-access". In case of "open-access", @xlink:title with value "CC-BY", "CC-BY-SA", "CC-BY-ND", "CC-BY-NC", "CC-BY-NC-SA" or "CC-BY-NC-ND" and @xlink:href must be specified.
• article-meta/self-uri must have @xlink:href
• article-meta/trans-abstract must have @xml:lang
• article-meta/kwd-group must have @kwd-group-type="uncontrolled"
• funding-group//institution-id must have @institution-id-type with value "doi" or "ringgold"
• article-meta must have custom-meta-group with /custom-meta / /custom-value pair "version"/"header" or "version"/"fulltext"
• body//graphic must have @orientation with value "portrait" or "landscape"
• sec/@sec-type must be heading-[1-8]
• fig-group//attrib|verse-group//attrib must not have /sc
• @list-type must be 'order', 'bullet', 'alpha-lower', 'alpha-upper', 'roman-lower', 'roman-upper' or 'simple'
• ref and media must have @id
• person-group must have @person-group-type with value 'all-authors', 'assignee', 'author', 'compiler', 'curator', 'director', 'editor', 'guest-editor', 'inventor', 'transed' or 'translator'
• mixed-citation/@publication-type must be 'book', 'journal', 'web', 'data', 'list', 'other', 'patent', 'thesis', 'commun', 'confproc', 'discussion' or 'gov'
• media must have @content-type='fighsare', @specific-use='original-format', @position='anchor', @orientation='portrait', @mimetype='video', @mime-subtype='avi', @xlink:href and /object-id
• object-id must have @pub-id-type="doi" and @specific-use="metadata"
• mixed-citation must have <=1 /fpage, /volume, /article-title, /series, /issue respectively