| (This foreword is not part of the standard NISO Z39.96-201x, 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 JATS) is a revision of the NLM Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite version 3.0. There will never be an NLM version 3.1, this NISO standard is the intellectual successor and the version numbers will now start at NISO JATS 1.0 (this draft is 0.4). 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 the standard.
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At the time this standard was balloted, the following NISO voting members of the NISO Z39.96 voting pool:
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At the time NISO approved this standard, the following individuals served on its Board of Directors:
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At the time this Draft Standard was approved for trial use, 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 |
Betty Landesman NIH Library |
| Eva Bolkovac Yale University Library |
Bonnie Lawlor National Federation of Advance Information Services |
| Diane Hillmann Syracuse University |
Rice Majors, Co-Chair University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Marjorie Hlava Access Innovations |
Anne O’Melia American Chemical Society |
| Rebecca Kennison Columbia University |
The following individuals served on the NISO Standardized Journal Article Markup Working Group, which developed and approved this standard:
| Jeff Beck, Co-chair
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), U.S. National Library of Medicine |
John Meyer Portico/Ithaka |
| Thomas Dowling OhioLINK |
Evan Owens American Institute of Physics |
| Beth Friedman Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. (DCL) |
Wendy Queen Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Kathryn Henniss Highwire Press |
Bruce Rosenblum Inera |
| Laura Kelly National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), U.S. National Library of Medicine |
Nate Trail Library of Congress |
| Deborah A. Lapeyre
Mulberry Technologies, Inc. |
B. Tommie Usdin, Co-chair
Mulberry Technologies, Inc. |
| Nikos Markantonatos Atypon Systems, Inc. |
Alex Wade Microsoft |