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Baltimore, MD | October 31, 2024 - NISO is pleased to announce publication
of an update to the Journal Article Tag Suite Standard (1.4), ANSI/NISO
Z39.96-2024
<https://groups.niso.org/higherlogic/ws/public/download/31415/ANSI-NISO-z39.96-2024.pdf>
.

Last revised in 2019, JATS defines a suite of XML structures describing the
content of journal articles using a common format that enables the exchange
of that content between publishers and archives. It is intended to preserve
intellectual content of journals independent of the form in which the
content was originally delivered, and to enable an archive to capture
structural and semantic components of existing material. JATS has been
adopted widely by journals publishers from around the world and is required
or supported by many archives as well as web-hosting and conversion
vendors. The updated standard introduces important changes to meet evolving
needs and practices in scholarly communications.

“This update, while remaining compatible with older versions of JATS,
incorporates many changes made in response to feedback from the wider
community,” said Jeffrey Beck, Literature Program Head at the National
Library of Medicine and co-chair of the JATS Standing Committee. “For
example, it provides additional details on institutional affiliations and
collaboration information and can now describe anonymous peer review.”

B. Tommie Usdin, President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc. and co-chair of
the JATS Standing Committee, added, “An especially important feature of the
new revision is its ability to model multilingual documents. Many articles
include substantial portions of text in two or more languages, and we can
now better accommodate this content.”

“We are excited to publish this new revision of JATS,” stated Todd
Carpenter, NISO Executive Director. “The JATS standard has become
foundational to the exchange of scholarly information, and we are grateful
to members of the Committee for their work to ensure that it continues to
reflect the needs of the information community.”

The NISO JATS 1.4 revision is freely available at
https://niso.org/standards-committees/jats. Those interested in learning
more can also attend a free Open Teleconference
<https://niso.org/events/2024/11/opentelecon-jats> on Monday, November 18,
at 3:00 pm Eastern (US/Canada).


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