[jats-list] JATS4R needs your help!

["Melissa Harrison m.harrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all

On behalf of the JATS4R Steering Committee, I am emailing the JATS Listserv
to request your help!

JATS4R is now a NISO recommended practice, and members of our steering
committee are currently involved with the JATS Standing Committee,
Crossref, Force11, Metadata2020, and STM. Things are changing a lot in our
world and we want to ensure that we have input from other organisations so
that the best possible recommendations are made available to suit the
communitybs needs.

We need feedback and input; as little or as much as you can provide:


   -

   The JATS4R website was relaunched in September, and now it contains a
   roadmap <https://jats4r.org/roadmap> section. Would you be able to help
   us better understand what our community needs by voting on the importance
   of the entries that are currently listed?
   -

   If you would like to propose a new recommendation that has not been
   created or is missing from the roadmap, please suggest a recommendation
   <https://jats4r.org/requests/>.


(You will need to login to the site to do these things, but it only takes a
second.)

Recommendations often take time to publish. Work goes on beforehand, and
lots of people contribute to this - from suggesting a need, to joining a
topic-specific subgroup, to making comments on a draft recommendation. We
need people (YOU) at all of these stages. Joining or running a subgroup
allows you to meet new people, use your creativity, and contribute to and
influence the way JATS is used and developed by the publishing community.
If you are interested in participating in a particular subgroup, please let
us know!

It helps your company, too.

   -

   By contributing, your company will have an opportunity to shape the
   recommendations.
   -

   The more standardisation there is in usage, the more efficient file
   exchanges become, and tools and services can be built on top of publishing
   processes.


With the anticipated release of JATS 1.3, we foresee a lot of interest in
updating current recommendations and proposing new ones. In the constantly
changing environment in which we work, we want to publish recommendations
in a timely manner so that people implementing new initiatives have a
reference. For example, the preprint citations recommendation
<https://jats4r.org/preprint-citations/> was published early in the Covid
pandemic - this was luck rather than design, but it was helpful.

If you are unable to do any of the above, providing feedback on how/if you
are using JATS4R recommendations would be great. We all need feedback, and
as an organisation made up of volunteers, the knowledge that our time is
being spent well and is useful to others helps motivate us to keep going!

We look forward to hearing from you!


Melissa Harrison (on behalf of the JATS4R Steering Committee)

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