petersuberI just posted a note on the #irmanagers email list and thought I'd reprint it here. A user asked how to support a journal at her institution that wants to use #elocators (or e-locators) rather than page numbers. My reply, lightly edited:
#PubPub automatically gives each paragraph an elocator. One journal publishing in PubPub format is the Harvard Data Science Review, and here's a sample article. When you mouse over a paragraph, you can see the elocator (a graphic "link" icon) in the left margin next to the start of the paragraph. Note that a large and growing number of journals use PubPub, though I can't find a good list of them.
https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/8uui4gv2
Digital Humanities Quarterly publishes in HTML, PDF, and XML, and uses elocators in each format. Here's a sample article from DHQ -- three links to show the effect in each format. In the HTML and PDF editions, the elocators are boxes with paragraph numbers in the right margin next to the start of each paragraph. The XML edition doesn't display the elocators but shows how they are coded within the text. Also note that DHQ has been publishing this way since 2007.
--HTML → https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/2/000787/000787.html
--PDF → https://dhq-static.digitalhumanities.org/pdf/000787.pdf
--XML → https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/2/000787.xml
Good luck! I wish more journals did this.
