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