Standardized Markup for Journal Articles: Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS)
THE TRIAL USE PERIOD FOR THIS DRAFT STANDARD IS NOW OVER.
The Working Group will be reviewing the comments and make any necessary revisions prior to submitting the standard to the NISO Voting Members Pool for approval.
Trial Period: March 30, 2011 - September 30, 2011.
JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite, NISO Z39.96-201x, draft standard webpage (includes links to the PDF and XML versions)
Supporting documentation and schemas in DTD, RELAX NG, and W3C Schema formats
Background
The goal of this work item, "Standardized Markup for Journal Articles Based on the NLM's Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite," is to take the currently existing National Library of Medicine (NLM) Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite version 3.0, the three journal article schemas, and the documentation and shepherd it through the NISO standardization process. The intent of this proposal is for the Tag Suite to be a NISO standard and each of the schemas to be a "sub-standard" or appendix to the Tag Suite standard. To achieve this objective, this proposal is to convene a NISO Working Group with the intention of proposing that the Tag Suite, as it currently stands, be accepted as a Draft Standard following a brief period of review within the group.
Proposal Document: http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/document.php?document_id=2577.
The proposal was approved by the Content & Collection Management Topic Committee on July 29, 2009, and was approved by the NISO membership on September 2, 2009. Of the 77 NISO Voting Members, 37 Voting Members cast ballots. The votes were as follows:
- Yes: 26 (71% of those voting; 34% of NISO Voting Members)
- No: 0 (0% of those voting; 0% of NISO Voting Members)
- Abstain: 11 (30% of those voting; 14% of NISO Voting Members)