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Documentation for the IOP Publishing specific implementation of BITS 2.0 for book content
Chapters
All of a books chapters must be captured in seperate <book-part > elements within a <book-body> element.
Book-Part Meta
<book-part-meta>is a mandatory element for all chapters as a container for the chapter level metadata.
Chapter Self-uris
Capture the filenames of the PDF and EPUB representations of the chapter in <self-uri> elements.

Books
Documentation for the IOP Publishing specific implementation of BITS 2.0 for book content
- Root element
  The root element for a book is a <book> element.
- Book Meta
  <book-meta >is a mandatory element for all books as a container for the book level metadata.
- Front Matter
  Capture the front matter information for a book inside a <front-matter> element.
- Chapters
  All of a books chapters must be captured in seperate <book-part > elements within a <book-body> element.
  - Book-Part Meta
    <book-part-meta>is a mandatory element for all chapters as a container for the chapter level metadata.
    - Book Part ID
      All chapters must contain a <book-part-id> element containing the chapter level doi.
    - Chapter Title
      Capture the chapter title in a <title> element inside a <title-group> element.
    - Chapter Contributors
      Chapter level contributor information is captured in a <contrib-group> element.
    - Page Numbers
      Capture first and last page numbers for a chapter in fpage and lpage elements respectively.
    - Chapter Copyright and Licenses
      Capture Copyright and License information inside a <permissions> element child of <book-part-meta>
    - Chapter Self-uris
      Capture the filenames of the PDF and EPUB representations of the chapter in <self-uri> elements.
    - Abstract
      Capture Abstracts in an <abstract> element.
  - Chapter Body
    Capture the body content of a book chapter inside a <body> element as a child of the relevent <book-part>.
  - Chapter Back
    Capture the back matter for a chapter in a <back> element.
- Back Matter
  Capture the book back matter inside a <book-back> element.
- Version and Change Log

Chapter Self-uris

Capture the filenames of the PDF and EPUB representations of the chapter in <self-uri> elements.

Each <self-uri> element must have @content-type and @xlink:href attributes

The allowed values of @content-type are:

pdf
epub

The @xlink:href attribute must contain the name of the relevant binary file (including file extension).

Example

<self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="bk978-0-7503-3579-9ch1.pdf"/>
<self-uri content-type="epub" xlink:href="bk978-0-7503-3579-9ch1.epub"/>