[open-bibliography] Fwd: NISO Publishes Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) Standard

Wed Aug 22 21:54:38 UTC 2012

This may not change anything in the bibsoup work, but being a NISO 
standard will reinforce the NLM DTD as journal data.

kc

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Subject: 	NISO Publishes Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) Standard
Date: 	Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:06:32 -0400
From: 	Cynthia Hodgson <chodgson at niso.org>
Reply-To: 	<chodgson at niso.org>
Organization: 	NISO
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*NISO Publishes Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) Standard**/
Provides common XML format for exchanging journal content/*

**

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the
publication of a new American National Standard, /JATS: Journal Article
Tag Suite/, ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012. JATS provides a common XML format in
which publishers and archives can exchange journal content by preserving
the intellectual content of journals independent of the form in which
that content was originally delivered. In addition to the element and
attribute descriptions, three journal article tag sets (the /Archiving
and Interchange Tag Set/, the /Journal Publishing Tag Set/, and the
/Article Authoring Tag Set/) are part of the standard. While designed to
describe the textual and graphical content of journal articles, it can
also be used for some other materials, such as letters, editorials, and
book and product reviews.

"Although this is the first version of JATS as an American National
Standard," stated Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate Director for Programs,
"the specification has a long history as the /National Library of
Medicine (NLM) Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite/, commonly
referred to as the NLM DTDs. Those DTDs were based on an article model
that was used in the National Center for Biotechnology Information
(NCBI)/NLM PubMed Central project to archive life science journals. The
original PubMed Central article model was expanded in scope with support
from Harvard University Libraries and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
in collaboration with Inera, Inc. and Mulberry Technologies, Inc.,
resulting in 2003 in the full /NLM Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag
Suite/. The Tag Suite had reached version 3.0 prior to initiation of the
NISO standardization process."

"Since its initial release, the /Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite/
has been widely popular," said B. Tommie Usdin, President of Mulberry
Technologies, Inc. and Co-chair of the NISO JATS Working Group. "The
format is being used to tag thousands of journals worldwide and is used
for the journal archives at PubMed Central and Portico and by the online
publisher HighWire Press. The Library of Congress and the British
Library have announced their intention to use these models for archiving
electronic content."

"Taking JATS through the NISO standardization process will bring
awareness of the Tag Suite to a larger and more varied audience,"
explained Jeffrey Beck, NCBI Technical Information Specialist at the
National Library of Medicine and Co-chair of the NISO JATS Working
Group. "We expect this wider audience will find uses for the Tag Suite
in new applications, beyond its traditional uses in journal publishing
and archiving."

"We are pleased that the NLM project team brought this valuable standard
to NISO for wider dissemination," stated Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive
Director. "We will be supporting a standing committee to continuously
update the standard and NLM will continue to host the user documentation
and schemas that support the standard."

The JATS standard is available as both an online XML document and a
freely downloadable PDF from the NISO website
(www.niso.org/workrooms/journalmarkup
<http://www.niso.org/workrooms/journalmarkup>). Supporting documentation
and schemas in DTD, RELAX NG, and W3C Schema formats are available at:
jats.nlm.nih.gov/ <http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/>.