Allow rich-text abstracts

[ja573]

Abstracts often contain titles – that need to be italicised – or multiple paragraphs. At present, both short_abstract and long_abstract are plain-text.

Crossref allows submitting abstracsts in JATS-formatted XML¹, so it'd make sense to use this format. ONIX supports various formats for abstracts, including XML – they simply need to be specified with textformat as an attribute of the <Text> element in ONIX files².

Complications: validation, namespace, support by platforms, user-friendliness (rich-text editor), converting existing abstracts.

Footnotes

1. https://www.crossref.org/documentation/schema-library/markup-guide-metadata-segments/abstracts/ ↩

2. https://onix-codelists.io/codelist/34 ↩

[tosteiner]

Just to note, this has become more urgent due to the first round of publishers using the new OMP-Thoth plugin, and OMP abstracts now being displayed in Thoth with full html tags in plain-text format ...

So will need to think about

a) a short-term workaround as part of the OMP-Thoth development work with Lepidus (potentially including an HTML stripping routine within the plugin), and
b) mid-term implications of how to handle OMP abstract ingest in Thoth, and how to render these in a rich-text-enabled abstract field ...