About
Launched:
2003
Record Updated:
Apr 19, 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.
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.
United States
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