| (This foreword is not part of the ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2015 standard, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite. It is included for information only.) |
This Standard was first published in 2012 and revised in 2015. This 2015 revision is JATS Version 1.1 of the Standard. In addition to the element and attribute descriptions, three journal article tag sets have been provided as part of NISO JATS.
This standard was originally based on the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite, which was created by 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) with the intent of providing a common format in which publishers and archives could exchange journal content. The NLM Tag Suite was developed as an update of 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.
The NISO JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite Version 1.1 is a revision of NISO Z39.96-2012, which was published in July 2012. The NISO JATS 1.0 standard was the intellectual successor to NLM DTD version 3.0. Since the first version was released, there have been three non-normative Committee Draft versions: 1.1d1 (the first Committee Draft of version 1.1) in December 2013; 1.1d2 in December 2014; and 1.1d3 in April 2015. The current version (ANSI NISO Z39.96-2015) includes all of the changes made due to public comment on the three Committee Draft versions.
Comments on JATS 1.0 made through the NISO form through November 2015 have been addressed by the JATS Standing Committee and incorporated in this update. All of the changes accepted are 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. Details of the Standing Committee recommendations on the comments submitted are available in: http://www.niso.org/apps/org/workgroup/jats-sc/download.php/15323.
JATS 1.0 was released by ANSI/NISO in August 2012. Since then, JATS has been in continuous maintenance mode; a full description of this ANSI-approved process is available at http://www.niso.org/workrooms/journalmarkup/continuous_maintenance/. A Z39.96 Standing Committee was formed to review comments and suggested changes. The response of the Standing Committee to the comments is documented on the NISO website and Committee drafts of the supplemental materials that reflect the changes are made available to the public.
If a provision of the standard is proposed for addition, deletion, or modification, the text of the provision must be submitted in writing. Comments or proposals for revision to any part of the standard may be submitted to NISO at any time. Submissions must be accompanied by the submitter’s name, affiliation, telephone number, and email address. Comments may be submitted to NISO online at http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/add_comment.php?document_id=10591.The Z39-96 Standing Committee reviews suggestions at least twice a year.
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At the time NISO approved this standard, the following organizations were members of the NISO voting pool that approved this standard.
| American Library Association (ALA) Jill Emery American Physical Society (APS) Mark Doyle American Psychological Association (APA) Janice Fleming American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Mark Needleman Association of American Publishers (AAP) John Tagler Cengage Learning Marti Heyman CrossRef Chuck Koscher EBSCO Information Services Oliver Pesch Ex Libris, Inc. Mike Dicus Inera Inc. Bruce Rosenblum ITHAKA/JSTOR/Portico Amy Kirchhoff JAMA and The JAMA Network Annette Flanagin |
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Duncan Campbell Library of Congress John Zagas Los Alamos National Laboratory Dianna (Dee) Magnoni Minitex Paul Swanson Mulberry Technologies, Inc. B. Tommie Usdin Music Library Association Nara Newcomer National Library of Medicine (NLM) Barbara Rapp Oxford University Press James Phillpotts ProQuest Beat Barblan Public Library of Science (PLoS) Helen Atkins SAGE Publications Lettie Conrad Society of American Archivists (SAA) Genevieve Preston-Chavez |
At the time NISO approved this standard, the following individuals served on the Content and Collections Management Topic Committee.
| Eva Bolkovac Yale University Library Marti Heyman, Co-chair Cengage Learning Eric Hildress OCLC Online Computer Library Center Marjorie Hlava National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) |
Rebecca Kennison K|N Consultants Amy Kirchhoff ITHAKA/JSTOR/Portico Robert Klingenberger Yale University Library Betty Landesman, Co-chair University of Baltimore, Langsdale Library |
The following individuals served on the NISO JATS Standing Committee, which prepared this revision:
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Ardie Bausenbach Library of Congress Jeffrey Beck, Co-chair National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), U.S. National Library of Medicine Brook Begin (from June 2014) Silverchair Information Systems Mark Doyle American Physical Society Kevin Hawkins University of North Texas Kirsten Howard (through May 2014) Silverchair Information Systems Betty Landesman University of Baltimore, Langsdale Library Deborah A. Lapeyre Mulberry Technologies, Inc. Nikos Markantonatos Atypon Systems, Inc. |
Mary McRae IQ Solutions John Meyer ITHAKA/Portico Nick Nunes Highwire Press Evan Owens Cenveo Publisher Services Laura Randall National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), U.S. National Library of Medicine Bruce Rosenblum Inera Inc. Soichi Tokizane Aichi University B. Tommie Usdin, Co-chair Mulberry Technologies, Inc. Alex Wade Microsoft Corporation |