[Sigpub-l] [CNI-ANNOUNCE] New Archiving DTDs released by National Library of Medicine

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded from Cliff Lynch.  Dick Hill]
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The announcement below represents an important additional step along the 
road towards effective large scale archiving of journals in digital form. 
My thanks to Betsy Humphreys at NLM for passing this along.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

XML DTD Describes Standard Content Model for Electronic Archiving and 
Publishing of Journal Articles


BETHESDA, MD -- May 27, 2003 --  The National Center for Biotechnology 
Information (NCBI; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) of the National Library of 
Medicine (NLM; http://www.nlm.nih.gov) has created two XML DTDs that will 
simplify electronic journal publishing and increase the accuracy of the 
archiving and exchange of scholarly journal articles.  The Journal 
Publishing DTD (http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing) and the Archiving and 
Interchange DTD (http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov) were both created from the 
Archiving and Interchange Tagset.

The Publishing DTD defines a common format for the creation of journal 
content in XML. The Archiving DTD also defines journal articles, but it has 
a more open structure; it is less strict about required elements and their 
order. The Archiving DTD defines a target content model for the conversion 
of any sensibly structured journal article and provides a common format in 
which publishers, aggregators, and archives can exchange journal content.

The DTDs were created after collaboration between the Harvard University 
E-Journal Archiving Project and NCBI. This collaboration was inspired by 
Inera Inc.'s (http://www.inera.com)  "E-Journal Archival DTD Feasibility 
Study" (http://www.diglib.org/preserve/hadtdfs.pdf). Harvard and Inera's 
participation was supported by the Mellon Foundation.

Mulberry Technologies (http://www.mulberrytech.com) and Inera examined 
thousands of articles from hundreds of journals to be sure that the content 
models being defined were comprehensive. After this extensive modeling, the 
consultants worked with NCBI to create the Archiving and Interchange DTD, 
then NCBI and Mulberry created the Journal Publishing DTD to help 
publishers who had not yet selected a format for their electronic content.

The DTDs may be used as is, or the Tagset can be used to construct other 
DTDs.  These DTDs and the Tagset are in the public domain. Complete 
information and documentation can be found at http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov.

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