[jats-list] JATS 4 Reuse working group launch first public event

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Hi Everyone,

This is a group that came together after a comment I made at JATS-Con in April
about publishers establishing some tagging best practices.

Join us in a Google Hangout on Wednesday 22nd October (4pm UTC;  11am EDT and
8am, PDT) to discuss these issues:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c4skqol6qlg8ai7m200l31pvlv4

Jeff



The NISO standard Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) is a set of XML elements
and attributes for tagging journal articles. It is used by most open-access
(and non-OA) publishers, and for storage of articles in archives such as
Pubmed Central (PMC).  PMC currently hosts over 800,000 articles in their
open-access subset, which are freely available to download in this format.

In theory, providing the articles in a well-defined XML format should make
them easy to parse and reuse.  However, in principle, there is considerable
variation in the tagging conventions used by various publishers, which makes
it difficult to write software to reliably extract key metadata or to parse
the content in important ways.

 One important example of the problem is the way that license information is
represented within the JATS xml of articles.  Even if the article is licensed
under a standard Creative Commons license, there are many different ways of
inserting this information into the XML, which causes problems for anyone
wanting to reliably determine which of a large subset of JATS article conforms
to a specific set of licenses.

 There are many other examples of types of data and metadata for which the
JATS standard provides only loose guidance or suggestions as to how they
should be tagged, which leads to considerable variability in the wild, and
consequent problems for reuse of openly-licensed content.

 A group of open access publishers and others have started a new effort, JATS
for Reuse, which is attempting to establish definitive guidelines on how these
various types of metadata should be tagged in journal articles in order to
facilitate reuse of the articles.  These guidelines will conform to JATS and,
in fact, be a layer of specification on top of the JATS standard.

 We hope you will join us in a Google Hangout on Wednesday 22nd October (4pm
UTC;  11an EDT and 8am, PDT) to discuss these issues:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c4skqol6qlg8ai7m200l31pvlv4

A recording of the hangout will be posted online afterwards in case you cannot
attend.