Oxford University Press Text Capture Instructions

To use the TCIs, read these About introduction sections. Then, with a question in mind, start with TCIs for the specific publication or product and work through the product family or platform (where applicable) to the Core TCIs and lower-level content looking for a relevant rule.

So, for example, for an UPSO publication:

• Your entry point is UPSO: University Press Scholarship Online (partner presses) TCIs where you can look for an applicable rule
• If you do not find the rule, move on to the OSO: Oxford Scholarship Online TCIs (as indicated in the UPSO introduction) where you again look for a relevant rule
• Next, look in the Core TCIs to find the most general rule. Most sections in the Core TCIs are for high level elements
• If you are looking for a low-level element, look in the Core TCIs in the Lower-level elements subsection

Where a manuscript is marked with typecodes, use the index of these TCIs to navigate directly to instructions labelled with those typecodes. Where a typecode index entry links to more than one topic, start with the more specific instruction and work backwards to the more general rule.

The TCIs provide guidance on the capture of structured text to DTDs including the core OxStructML elements. For further detail on the DTDs and guidance on tagging regulations generally see the Specification of Text Structure (STS) documents for the appropriate DTDs. The following DTDs include these elements:

• OxChapML
• OxEncyclML
• OxLawML
• OxLawRepML
• OxStructML.

As a guide to whether a particular topic in the Core TCIs is applicable to the content you are capturing, use the topic title. Instructions in a topic apply to all content unless the title indicates that a topic is specific to a particular product (e.g. UPSO), publishing area (e.g. Law), or content type (e.g. Articles, Chaptered works, A-Z reference).

If you are unclear on whether or not a topic applies to your content, please contact OUP.