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Journal Article Tag Suite

NISO - National Information Standards Organization
United States of America
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Launched: 2003
Record Updated: Oct 04, 2024
Standard, specification or protocol
The Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) is an XML format used to describe scientific literature published online. It is a technical standard developed by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), approved by the American National Standards Institute, also known in its most current version as ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2021, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite.
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Mission

The Journal Article Tag Suite provides a common XML format in which publishers and archives can exchange journal content. The JATS provides a set of XML elements and attributes for describing the textual and graphical content of journal articles as well as some non-article material such as letters, editorials, and book and product reviews.

Key Achievements

  • ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2021, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite, version 1.3 published in 2021.
  • JATS Compatibility Model (https://groups.niso.org/higherlogic/ws/public/document?document_id=21033) published in 2021. he goal of this document is to enable creators and maintainers of JATS-based document models to know when the extensions they make to JATS models are JATS-compatible and to suggest ways in which they can achieve their modeling goals in a JATS-compatible way.
  • JATS4R (https://jats4r.niso.org/ ) formed to provide further guidance on JATS. JATS4R (JATS for Reuse) is a working group devoted to optimising the reusability of scholarly content by developing best-practice recommendations for tagging content in JATS XML.

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    Code of Conduct

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    Community Engagement

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    Contribution Guidelines or Fora

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    User Contribution Pathways

    • Contribute to education or training
    • Contribute to working groups or interest groups

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    Community Engagement Activities:

    webinars, teleconferences, conferences such as JATS-Con (https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/jats-con/)

    Policies & Governance

    Governance Summary

    User-suggested changes are collected and discussed by the JATS Standing Committee who decide on action based on NISO continuous maintenance procedures.

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    Commitment to Equity & Inclusion

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    Privacy Policy

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    Governance Records

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    Governance Structure & Processes

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    Board Structure

    • Advisory board or steering committee

    Community Governance

    • Formal

    Additional Information

    Organizational History

    The NISO project was a continuation of the work done by NLM/NCBI, and popularized by the NLM's PubMed Central as a de facto standard for archiving and interchange of scientific open-access journals and its contents with XML. See also https://www.niso.org/niso-io/2017/09/jats-wheres-it-going-where-has-it-been

    With the NISO standardization the NLM initiative has gained a wider reach, and several other repositories, such as SciELO and Redalyc, adopted the XML formatting for scientific articles. (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_Article_Tag_Suite)

    Organizational Structure

    Business or Ownership Model

    Non-profit organization

    Current Affiliations

    • Mulberry Technologies / National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)/United States National Library of Medicine(NLM)

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