[jats-list] Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS) Draft released

["Beck, Jeff (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E]" <beck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A draft version of the Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS) is now available from
the NCBI site. http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/extensions/bits/

The complete documentation for this draft is available in the Tag
Library<http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/extensions/bits/tag-library/0.2/>. The
structure and suggested usage of the Tag Library is described in the How to
Use (Read Me First) section.
http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/extensions/bits/tag-library/0.2/

The DTD is available through the web at this stable URL:
http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/extensions/bits/0.2/BITS-book0.dtd.

The files are also available by anonymous FTP:
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/jats/extensions/bits/0.2/.

The Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS) draft contains an XML model for STM
books that is based on the Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS; ANSI/NISO
Z39-96-2012). The intent of the BITS is to provide a common format in which
publishers and archives can exchange book content, including book parts such
as chapters. The Suite provides a set of XML schema modules that define
elements and attributes for describing the textual and graphical content of
books and book components as well as a package for book part interchange.

The spring-board for developing the BITS was the observation that a JATS-based
XML book model would be useful to a wide variety of publishers of professional
and scholarly books, especially but not exclusively to publishers who are
already using one of the JATS journal article models and looking for a
compatible model for their books.

The BITS Book Interchange DTD is a superset customization of the ANSI/NISO
JATS Z39.96-2012 Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite, with added
material to describe STM books, book components such as chapters, and
information concerning the inclusion of books and book components in book
series. The Tag Set describes both the metadata and the narrative content of a
book, both the metadata and narrative content for book components, and
collection-level metadata for book sets and book series, when a book part is
associated with one or more such collections.

BITS is managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at
the US National Library of Medicine (NLM). BITS is not a NISO standard.

Until we find that the traffic is overwhelming, let's discuss BITS using this
jats-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thank you

Jeff Beck

Beck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx