October 16 & 17, 2012
Feb 22, 2016
October 16 & 17, 2012
No Smoking!(yes, they are serious about this)
Facilities• No food or drinks in this room.• Restrooms: To the right, on either side of the
elevators.• Lunch will be on your own. Cafeterias downstairs
in this building and across the street in Natcher.• Coffee Breaks will in the lobby. Again, no food or
drinks in this room.• WiFi is available.• Parking
Program
• Opportunities for questions and discussion after each presentation.
• Please use the microphones.• And tell us who you are. • Participant lists will be distributed tomorrow.• There will be an open session on Wednesday
afternoon. Bring your suggestions, questions, and gripes.
JATS News
• JATS is an ANSI/NISO standardANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012 announced Aug 22, 2012(For the time being, send feedback to the JATS-List:www.mulberrytech.com/JATS/JATS-List/)
• Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS) v0.2 has been releasedhttp://jats.nlm.nih.gov/extensions/bits/
Thank You to the Peer Reviewers
• Steve DeRose• Jeff Fisher• Daniel Grossberg• Mirko Janc• Sheila Morrissey• Evan Owens• Bruce Rosenblum• Kim Tryka
And to the Program Committee
• Jeffrey Beck• Deborah Lapeyre• B. Tommie Usdin
(Who were also peer reviewers)
Jargon Primer• NLM DTDs – original name for the JATS• Green – Archiving Tag Set; most permissive
model• Blue – Publishing Tag Set; moderately
prescriptive• Orange or Pumpkin – Article Authoring Tag
Set; most prescriptive• Greenification – making the Blue Tag Set more
permissive
October 16 & 17, 2012
Evolutionary Chaos and the
Road Ahead
JATS-ConOctober 16, 2012
Laura KellyNCBI/NLM/NIH
In the beginning…
STM Journal Publishers
Influence JATS
A little while later…
STM Journal Publishers
Influence JATS
Aggregators
Archives
Not too long after that…
not justSTM Journal
Publishers
Influence JATS
ArchivesExtensions & customizations talked about at JATS-Con:
2010• ACS• Portico• AGU• TaxPub2011• Annotum• Atypon (issues)2012• BITS• PMC (journal front
matter)
Aggregators
Extensions
Customizations
Not too long after that…
not justSTM Journal
Publishers
Influence JATS
Archives
Aggregators
Extensions
Customizations
Not too long after that…
not justSTM Journal
Publishers
Influence JATS
Extensions
Customizations
Archives
Aggregators
And then this happened…
not justSTM Journal
Publishers
Influence JATS
Extensions
Customizations
NISOStandardization
Archives
Aggregators
“… bring awareness of the Tag Suite to a larger and more varied audience”
“We expect this wider audience will find uses for the Tag Suite in new applications, beyond its traditional uses in journal publishing and archiving.”
—Jeffrey Beck
Evolution in the JATS
• Adjusting models to accommodate what’s being done.– <media>– <permissions>– @xml:lang
• Adjusting models to accommodate what users know they should be doing.– <contrib-id>
Evolution in publishing
Data is king.What you do with that data matters.
What else you do with that data
matters more.
These days…
not justSTM Journal
Publishers
Influence JATS
Extensions
Customizations
New user groups
New uses
Archives
Aggregators
How does the JATS continue to evolve without descending into chaos?
It doesn’t.
Chaos is unavoidable…unless you want things to be really, really boring.
How does the JATS continue to evolve making the best use of the chaos?
• Accept that it’s happening.
• Utilize available resources.JATS-Community is its own best and most under-utilized resource.www.mulberrytech.com/JATS/JATS-List/