[jats-list] Final Harassment - JATS-Con Paper Proposals due this Friday

["Jeff Beck beck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

JATS-Con (http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/jats-con/
<http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/jats-con/>) is the user conference for the NISO
Z39.96-2012 Journal Article Tag Suite. JATS-Con is a peer-reviewed conference
hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the
National Library of Medicine (NLM) on the NIH campus in Bethesda MD. The next
conference will take place on April 12 & 13, 2016.

JATS-Con is seeking papers relevant to the use or non-use of JATS or an
extension such as the Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS), TaxPub, or the ISO
Standards Tag Set (ISOSTS). The following topics are suggestions only:

    * the creation, presentation, manipulation, and/or storage of content
tagged according to one of the models in the Tag Suite
    * modification or customization of one of the models in the Tag Suite or
creation of a new model using the Tag Suite
    * location of the models in a workflow
    * tools or resources developed or desired for working with content tagged
using the Tag Suite
    * desired enhancements to the Tag Suite

Presentations will be 35 minutes long, in English, followed by 10 minutes of
Questions and Answers or audience discussion.

Please submit your paper proposals on the JATS-Con site:
http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/jats-con/forms/JATSsubmission.html
<http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/jats-con/forms/JATSsubmission.html> by November 6,
2015.

Presenters at JATS-Con are required to:

    * Provide a full paper, in XML, using the Article Authoring Tag Set on or
before March 11, 2016.
    * Attend the Journal Article Tag Suite Conference in person.
    * Give a 35-min presentation, in English, based on the paper.
    * Participate in a 10-min discussion with the audience immediately after
the paper is presented.
    * Provide on-site materials (slides) to the conference committee in HTML,
Powerpoint, or OpenOffice format.
    * Grant permission to the NLM to archive and post a copy of the paper and
onsite materials on the conference proceedings website.

The JATS-Con Proceedings will be published on the NCBI Bookshelf, freely
available to the public. See the Proceedings from 2010-2015 at
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK65129
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK65129>.


Schedule and Logistics

    * November 6, 2015 - Paper proposals due
    * January 7, 2016 - Speakers notified
    * March 11, 2016 - Papers due for Online Proceedings

Please contact Jeff Beck at beck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:beck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> or 1-301-435-5992 if you have any questions.

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