PublishingLanguage

Overview

PublishingLanguage declares an individual language in which a research-publishing organization regularly produces content with demonstrated fluency and frequency. It is a leaf element whose meaning is carried entirely by its mandatory publishingLanguage attribute, which uses an ISO 639 language code. Each instance represents one distinct language capability of the publisher, and multiple instances together describe the full set of languages the organization actively supports (sources: data-dictionary-2.4 p.30, release-notes-2.4 p.18, data-dictionary-v3-draft p.80).

Usage

PublishingLanguage appears as a required child of the PublishingLanguages container (renamed PublishingLanguageList in the v3 draft), with cardinality 1..n so that multilingual organizations can list every language they publish in (sources: release-notes-2.4 p.18, data-dictionary-v3-draft p.80). The publishingLanguage attribute is mandatory on every instance and must be populated with an ISO 639-2/T three-letter language code in 2.x (the v3 draft generalises this to the ISO639LanguageType). Typical placement is within an organization's expertise/profile section, where consumers use it to filter and route research by linguistic audience (sources: data-dictionary-2.4 p.30, example-company-advanced-2.4, example-rosterupdates-2.4).

Rules

• MUSTPublishingLanguage MUST carry the publishingLanguage attribute populated with a valid ISO 639 language code (ISO 639-2/T in RIXML 2.x; ISO 639 more generally in the v3 draft).[RIXML Research Data Dictionary v2.4 p.30] [RIXML Release Notes v2.4 p.18] [RIXML Research Suite Data Dictionary v3.0 (DRAFT) p.80]↗
• MUSTWhen PublishingLanguages (or PublishingLanguageList in v3) is present, it MUST contain at least one PublishingLanguage child; multiple instances MAY be used to declare additional languages.[RIXML Release Notes v2.4 p.18] [RIXML Research Suite Data Dictionary v3.0 (DRAFT) p.80]↗
• SHOULDEach PublishingLanguage SHOULD represent a language in which the organization publishes with demonstrated frequency and professional fluency, rather than an occasional or ad hoc translation.[RIXML Research Data Dictionary v2.4 p.30] [RIXML Research Suite Data Dictionary v3.0 (DRAFT) p.80]↗

Relationships

• child-ofPublishingLanguages — PublishingLanguage is a required child of the PublishingLanguages container, which aggregates one or more language capabilities for an organization.
• requiresPublishingLanguage.publishingLanguage — PublishingLanguage requires the publishingLanguage attribute to identify the language using a standardized ISO 639 code.
• qualifiesExpertise — Used as part of an organization's expertise profile to describe linguistic publishing capability alongside other Expertise dimensions.