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

kelly@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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/