IDA PUR 1997-001

This is an annotated file explaining how to complete the description file for the IDA Publication Register. The file shall have a name such as 1997-001.html, and the beginning of the file shall look as follows when you look at it in a text editor:

<html> <head>
<title>IDA PUR 1997-001
</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>1997-001</h1>

Then follows the essence of the description. It has the general format

<dl>
<dt> property 1
<dd> value 1
<dt> property 2
<dd> value 2
 ... (additional properties)
</dl>

Properties are single, capitalized identifiers from a standard reportoire (defined below). Values are free text, although specific properties may require a specific format. In those cases where a property contains several values (for example, several authors for an article), then each value is marked with its own dd (so that one dt is followed by several dd expressions). For some of the properties, full HTML text is allowed. For author names, see details below. The following is the properties and their corresponding values in the example, together with comments. Comments are written in italic font. AUTHOR Coradeschi,Silvia Karlsson,Lars The list of authors, separated by break. Details, see below. TITLE A Decision-Mechanism for Reactive and Cooperating Soccer-Playing Agents The full title of the article. REGNR 1997-001 The registration number that you got from Barbara. DATE 1997-01-15 The official date when the article was published, in the (supposedly) international standard date format. This property only applies for articles that have been published in a formal sense. Manuscripts don't have publication dates. NRPAGES 10 The number of pages of the article, as it appears in the publication. Don't count title pages and the abstracts page; do count pages for figures, references, and annexes. SERIES ep-cis This is the journal, conference, etc where the article was published, represented by its full name or by a code. There is (will be) a separate index of appropriate codes. VOLUME 1997 The year of publication (for conferences); the volume number (for journals). For the E-Press, either will do. NUMBER 001 This is the serial number of the article within the E-Press volume, and the number of the issue within a journal. It does not apply to conference proceedings and the like. PAGES 85-92 This property applies to journals and conferences, but not for the E-Press. It specifies the first and last page of the article as it appears in the journal or proceedings. PUBCOM It will be presented at the forthcoming International Conference on Autonomous Robots. Include any text about alternative publication that you would like to have appear on the ALP after the specification of primary publication as defined by the previous properties. Here is a special feature: author names SHALL be entered in a rigid format, exemplified by Karlsson,Lars. The basic rules are: Omit all initials, etc. - just last name and first name, separated by a comma. Omit all diacritical signs - å and ä become a, é becomes e, etc. No space between last name and first name. The reason for this is that we can then fetch the necessary information about the authors' web pages, etc. from a webpage database, and include that information as a hot link in the ALP. Also, it facilitates building a list of articles for each author. Another special feature applies when the same article has been published in several places. Then, the properties listed above shall always apply to the first publication. Subsequent publications are described by sub-property-lists, as in the following example:

<dl>
<dt>  ... (as above)
<dd>  
<dt>  REPUBLICATION
<dd>  <dl>
      <dt> SERIES
      <dd> International Conference on Autonomous Robots
      <dt> VOLUME
      <dd> 1997
      <dt> PAGES
      <dd> 25-30
      <dt> NRPAGES
      <dd> 6
      </dl>
<dt>  ... (continued)
<dd>  
</dl>

In case of more than one republication, the tag REPUBLICATION is repeated for each of them (unlike what is the case for multiple authors). The descriptor page is concluded by the following standard ending: </body> </html> This is all there is to it. Here is a link to a page showing the page of the present example but in explicit HTML code.