[Asis-standards] NISO JATS standard

[Thornburg,Gail]

I am ok with this

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[mailto:asis-standards-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Mark Needleman
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 3:23 PM
To: ASIST Standards Committee
Subject: [Asis-standards] NISO JATS standard

Folks

i just cast the flowing vote on

NISO Z39.96-201x, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite

ASIST votes YES on this standard with some reluctance. Because the
standard has been a DSFTU we feel that potential implemented have gotten
experience with it and have vetted it for technical issues.

We actually don't have any problems with the technical contents of the
standard itself.

Our concern is with the sentence in Section 2 Scope:

"The Tag Suite has been designed to be extensible. Any of the tag sets
may be extended or restricted to meet the needs of a given project.
Also, new tag sets can be built from the elements and attributes in the
Tag Suite and should be considered conforming to the standard."

We feel that this definition of allowed extensibility is too liberal and
has the potential to lead to interoperability issues. We feel, at
minimum this should be replaced with language to the effect that new tag
sets and attributes may be defined for use among agreeing partners
(their use is outside the scope of the current version of the standard)
and may be proposed for addition to future versions of the standard."

I was tempted to vote NO just  to force NISO to justify why they put
that statement in the scope section - but all of the other votes cast so
far have been YES so a NO vote from ASIST would not do much to change
the standard and would just delay the approval of what in most respects
seems like a pretty decent piece of work

If anyone has any problems or objections let me know - we have until
7/15 to change our vote

mark