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Documentation for the IOP Publishing specific implementation of BITS 2.0 for book content
Front Matter
Capture the front matter information for a book inside a <front-matter> element.
Front Matter Part
<front-matter-part> is a mandatory element for all <front-matter> as a container for the front-matter metadata.
Front Matter Self-uris
Capture the filenames of the PDF and EPUB representations of the front matter 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.
  - Front Matter Part
    <front-matter-part> is a mandatory element for all <front-matter> as a container for the front-matter metadata.
    - Front Matter Title
      Capture the title of the front matter section in a <title> element inside a <title-group> element.
    - Front Matter Contributors
      Front matter 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.
    - Front Matter Self-uris
      Capture the filenames of the PDF and EPUB representations of the front matter in <self-uri> elements.
  - Dedication
    Capture book dedication information in a <dedication> element.
  - Preface
  - Acknowledgments
    Capture the book acknowledgments in a <ack> element.
  - Full Biographies
    Capture full author biographies in a <bio> element.
  - Glossary
    Capture glossary information inside a <glossary> element.
  - Other Front Matter
    Capture non-standard prelim sections in a <front-matter-part> element.
- Chapters
  All of a books chapters must be captured in seperate <book-part > elements within a <book-body> element.
- Back Matter
  Capture the book back matter inside a <book-back> element.
- Version and Change Log

Front Matter Self-uris

Capture the filenames of the PDF and EPUB representations of the front matter 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="bk978-0-7503-3579-9ch0.pdf"/>
<self-uri content-type="epub" xlink:href="bk978-0-7503-3579-9ch0.epub"/>