Please note: this standard has been withdrawn in favor of ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2015) JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite, version 1.1

ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012

Foreword

(This foreword is not part of the ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012 standard, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite. It is included for information only.)

About This Standard

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) originally created the Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite with the intent of providing a common format in which publishers and archives could exchange journal content.

The Tag Suite was developed in response to a Document Type Definition (DTD) used by the NCBI/NLM PubMed Central project to archive life science journals from a variety of sources. Input and support from Harvard University Libraries, as well as support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and collaboration with Inera, Inc. and Mulberry Technologies, Inc., allowed the scope of the project to be broadened and resulted in the NLM Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite.

Changes to the Tag Suite have always been user-driven. User-suggested changes are collected and discussed by the Working Group who decide on action. The intent is to put this standard under continuous maintenance, and allow the standard to continue to change based on user comment.

This standard (now named NISO JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite 1.0) is a revision of the NLM Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite version 3.0. An NLM version named NLM 3.1 was never published; the intermediate Tag Sets for the NISO Trial Use standard were numbered NISO JATS 0.4. This NISO JATS 1.0 standard is the intellectual successor to NLM 3.0. 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) have been provided as part of NISO JATS 1.0.

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NISO Voting Members

At the time this standard was balloted, the following were members of the NISO Z39.96 voting pool:

American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Carter Glass (Primary), Jon Sears (Alternate)
Library of Congress
Sally McCallum (Primary), John Zagas (Alternate)
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Terry Hulbert (Primary), Evan Owens (Alternate), James Wonder (Alternate)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Miriam Blake (Primary)
American Psychological Association
Linda Beebe (Primary), Janice Fleming (Alternate)
Lyrasis
Peter Murray (Primary), Robin Dale (Alternate), Tim Daniels (Alternate)
American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)
Mark Needleman (Primary)
Music Library Association
Mark McKnight (Primary), David Sommerfield (Alternate)
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
Julia Blixrud (Primary), Charles Lowry (Alternate)
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Laura McCarthy (Primary), Marilyn Redman (Alternate)
College Center for Library Automation (CCLA)
David Brightbill (Primary), Lucy Harrison (Alternate)
National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS)
Marjorie Hlava (Primary)
EBSCO Information Services
Oliver Pesch (Primary)
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Barbara Rapp (Primary), Jacque-Lynne Schulman (Alternate)
Ex Libris, Inc.
Mike Dicus (Primary)
National Security Agency
Kate Dolan (Primary), Kathleen Rattell (Alternate)
Inera Inc.
Bruce Rosenblum (Primary)
Ringgold, Inc.
Donald Chvatal (Primary)
Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
Gerald Kline (Primary), Betsy Graham (Alternate)
SAGE Publications
Carol Richman (Primary), Richard Fidczuk (Alternate)
ITHAKA/JSTOR/Portico
Amy Kirchhoff (Primary) , Bruce Heterick (Alternate)

Content and Collection Management Topic Committee

At the time this standard was approved, the following were members of the Content and Collection Management Topic Committee that had oversight for the project:

Julia Blixrud, Co-Chair
Association of Research Libraries
Rebecca Kennison
Columbia University
Eva Bolkovac
Yale University Library
Betty Landesman
NIH Library
Lettie Conrad
SAGE Publications
Rice Majors, Co-Chair
University of Colorado at Boulder
Diane Hillmann
Syracuse University
Dorothea Salo
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Marjorie Hlava
National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS)
Ken Wells
Innovative Interfaces, Inc.

NISO Standardized Journal Article Markup Working Group Members

The following individuals served on the NISO Standardized Journal Article Markup Working Group, which developed and approved this standard:

Jeffrey Beck, Co-chair
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), U.S. National Library of Medicine
John Meyer
ITHAKA/JSTOR/Portico
Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK
Evan Owens
American Institute of Physics
Kathryn Henniss
HighWire Press
Bruce Rosenblum
Inera Inc
Laura Kelly
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), U.S. National Library of Medicine
B. Tommie Usdin, Co-chair
Mulberry Technologies, Inc.
Deborah A. Lapeyre
Mulberry Technologies, Inc.
Alex Wade
Microsoft Corporation
Nikos Markantonatos
Atypon Systems Inc.