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NISO Publishes Updated Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) Standard 1.1

Baltimore, MD - January 7, 2016 - The National Information Standards 
Organization (NISO) announces the formal publication of the updated 
version of JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite 1.1, ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2015. 
This newly official edition is a revision of ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012, also
 known as JATS 1.0, first published in July 2012. The purpose of JATS is
 to define a suite of XML elements and attributes that describes the 
content of metadata and journal articles using a common format that 
enables the exchange of journal content. This Tag Suite thus is intended
 to preserve intellectual content of journals independent of the form in
 which the content was originally delivered, and enables an archive to 
capture structural and semantic components of existing material. In 
addition, the JATS standard includes three implementations of the suite,
 called Tag Sets, which are intended to provide models for archiving, 
publishing, and authoring journal article content. 





"JATS 1.1 continues to build on the success of JATS 1.0, which was 
itself the successor to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) DTD 
version 3.0, widely adopted in industry," comments Jeffrey Beck, NCBI 
Technical Information Specialist at the National Library of Medicine and
 Co-chair of the NISO JATS Standing Committee. "JATS is used to tag 
thousands of journals worldwide by a wide array of implementers and 
publishers. And JATS continues to grow," says Beck. "The TaxPub 
extension provides elements for tagging taxonomic treatments in journal 
articles. BITS is an NLM effort to make a JATS-based book model, and 
NISO STS is a NISO activity to make a JATS-based standard for Standards 
based on ISO STS."





"Comments from users made on JATS 1.0 through February 2015 have been 
addressed by the NISO JATS Standing Committee and incorporated into JATS
 1.1. All changes are also backward compatible with JATS 1.0, which 
means that any document that was valid according to JATS 1.0 will be 
valid according to JATS 1.1," explains B. Tommie Usdin, President of 
Mulberry Technologies, Inc. and co-chair of the NISO JATS Standing 
Committee. "We are pleased that this formalization, performed via the 
ANSI/NISO consensus standardization process, enables adopters of JATS to
 trust that the enhancements added to JATS 1.1 are fully stable and will
 function as intended."





Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate Director of Programs, comments that, "JATS
 1.0 was approved by ANSI and published by NISO in 2012. Since then, 
updates to the standard are managed through an ANSI-approved Continuous 
Maintenance procedure, which means that comments are reviewed and 
approved by a NISO JATS Standing Committee on a regular basis before the
 full updated standard is formalized." Lagace continues, "The Standing 
Committee evaluated feasibility and priority of all comments and created
 responses, which are now available via the NISO JATS web pages, so that
 any user can view the full history of these changes."





The NISO JATS 1.1 standard is available as both an online XML document and a freely available PDF from the NISO website at http://www.niso.org/workrooms/journalmarkup. Supporting documentation and schemas in DTD, RELAX NG, and W3C Schema formats are available at  http://jats.nlm.nih.gov.








About NISO


NISO, based in Baltimore, Maryland, fosters the development and 
maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent 
management, and effective interchange of information so that it can be 
trusted for use in research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO 
engages libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other 
organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through 
the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO 
works with intersecting communities of interest and across the entire 
lifecycle of information standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association
 accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). For 
more information, visit the NISO website.
    




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   NISO Publishes Updated Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) Standard 1.1
   Baltimore,  MD  - January 7, 2016 - The National Information Standards
   Organization (NISO) announces the formal publication of the updated version
   of JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite 1.1, ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2015. This newly
   official edition is a revision of ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012, also known as JATS
   1.0, first published in July 2012. The purpose of JATS is to define a suite
   of XML elements and attributes that describes the content of metadata and
   journal articles using a common format that enables the exchange of journal
   content. This Tag Suite thus is intended to preserve intellectual content of
   journals  independent  of the form in which the content was originally
   delivered,  and  enables an archive to capture structural and semantic
   components of existing material. In addition, the JATS standard includes
   three implementations of the suite, called Tag Sets, which are intended to
   provide models for archiving, publishing, and authoring journal article
   content.
   "JATS 1.1 continues to build on the success of JATS 1.0, which was itself
   the successor to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) DTD version 3.0,
   widely  adopted  in  industry,"  comments Jeffrey Beck, NCBI Technical
   Information Specialist at the National Library of Medicine and Co-chair of
   the NISO JATS Standing Committee. "JATS is used to tag thousands of journals
   worldwide by a wide array of implementers and publishers. And JATS continues
   to grow," says Beck. "The TaxPub extension provides elements for tagging
   taxonomic treatments in journal articles. BITS is an NLM effort to make a
   JATS-based book model, and NISO STS is a NISO activity to make a JATS-based
   standard for Standards based on ISO STS."
   "Comments  from users made on JATS 1.0 through February 2015 have been
   addressed by the NISO JATS Standing Committee and incorporated into JATS
   1.1. All changes are also backward compatible with JATS 1.0, which means
   that  any  document that was valid according to JATS 1.0 will be valid
   according to JATS 1.1," explains B. Tommie Usdin, President of Mulberry
   Technologies, Inc. and co-chair of the NISO JATS Standing Committee. "We are
   pleased that this formalization, performed via the ANSI/NISO consensus
   standardization  process,  enables  adopters of JATS to trust that the
   enhancements  added  to JATS 1.1 are fully stable and will function as
   intended."
   Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate Director of Programs, comments that, "JATS 1.0
   was approved by ANSI and published by NISO in 2012. Since then, updates to
   the standard are managed through an ANSI-approved Continuous Maintenance
   procedure, which means that comments are reviewed and approved by a NISO
   JATS Standing Committee on a regular basis before the full updated standard
   is  formalized."  Lagace  continues, "The Standing Committee evaluated
   feasibility and priority of all comments and created responses, which are
   now available via the NISO JATS web pages, so that any user can view the
   full history of these changes."
   The NISO JATS 1.1 standard is available as both an online XML document and a
   freely     available     PDF     from     the    NISO    website    at
   [3]http://www.niso.org/workrooms/journalmarkup.Supportingdocumentationand
   schemas  in  DTD,  RELAX  NG,  and W3C Schema formats are available at
   [4]http://jats.nlm.nih.gov.
   About NISO
   NISO, based in Baltimore, Maryland, fosters the development and maintenance
   of  standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and
   effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in
   research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries,
   publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
   learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
   management,  and  curation  of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
   communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information
   standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American
   National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, [5]visit the NISO
   website.

References

   1. mailto:niso-announce at niso.org
   2. mailto:niso-announce at niso.org
   3. http://www.niso.org/workrooms/journalmarkup
   4. http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/
   5. http://www.niso.org/