[jats-list] NISO Releases Content Profile/Linked Document Standard

["Nettie Lagace nlagace@xxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Baltimore, MD b December 12, 2023: The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) today announced publication of its newest standard,
ANSI/NISO Z39.105-2023, Content Profile/Linked Document (CP/LD)
<https://www.niso.org/publications/z39105-2023-cpld>, which enables portions
of content, data, semantics, and other resources from separate sources to be
combined into a single, standards-based format optimized for interchange,
search, and display.
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> For most disciplines, the journal article remains the primary means of
communicating the outputs of scholarly research. As a result, publishing
workflows and systems as well as the information standards supporting them
have been largely based on large XML document models. Increasingly, however,
users also expect to access articles and associated contentbe.g., research
data, semantics, code, models, and imagesbin smaller, arbitrary portions or
bchunks.b
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> The CP/LD Standard addresses this growing need by providing flexible
instructions for linking and combining academic, research, and professional
content, data, and semantics in a single package. It defines a
machine-readable, self-describing, standards-based markup format that can be
used to exchange data between systems, APIs, and services. The new standard
advances scholarly research by enabling users to engage with a specific
portion of content at the appropriate time in the research lifecycle,
including prior to publication. CP/LD does not replace existing models and
standardsbe.g., ANSI/NISO Z39.96, Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS)bused
for articles, books, data sets, or semantic and metadata schemes, but rather
complements them.
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> bWe are excited to support the publication of this important and timely
new standard,b noted Suzanne BeDell, consultant and co-chair of the NISO
CP/LD Working Group. bThe CP/LD Standard was developed in response to the
growing need to communicate research in new and different ways and formats.
The working group wrote the standard to support access, accessibility,
collaboration, and reproducibility through all aspects of the research
lifecycle and across different corpuses and domains.b Fellow co-chair Bill
Kasdorf, Principal of Kasdorf & Associates, added, bItbs significant that
this standard is itself standards-based, using HTML, JSON-LD, and schema.org
<http://schema.org/>, which are well known, well supported, and routinely
employed. This should enable CP/LD to be widely adopted by the community, and
it is with wide adoption that the standard will have the greatest impacts
accelerating research and discovery.b
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> bHow users interact with academic content is ever-evolving, and NISO is
pleased to support researchers and the broader scholarly communications
ecosystem with CP/LD,b said NISO Executive Director Todd Carpenter. bWe
thank Suzanne, Bill, and all Working Group members who contributed to the
development of the new standard and congratulate them on its publication.b
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> The NISO Content Profile/Linked Document standard is freely available at
https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/cpld
<https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/cpld>.
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> About NISO
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discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through
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information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning,
research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and
curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of interest
and across the entire lifecycle of information standards. NISO is a nonprofit
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<mailto:nisohq@xxxxxxxx>.
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