Dear JATS Community,
As announced in a previous message to this list [1], Nina Reinhardt is
currently working on her master's thesis in which she tries to find a
consensus customization for the (estimated) 90% of JATS users that only
need about half of Blue's available elements and attributes.
My role in this is that I am co-supervising the thesis and that I came
up with the idea after another discussion on this list last year, in
which Tommie suggested that "a dozen different people (or small groups)
each craft[ed] a 'JATS Lite' and we compare[d] them" [2].
This was our first idea: To provide a form with a list of available
elements and attributes, and people would be able to put together their
favorite Lite customization interactively.
But then we thought that we should also offer a way for people to upload
representative JATS content from their production or repositories and
treat these collections as expressions of tagging preferences, or as
"de-facto customizations". And then she skipped the interactive form
part and focused entirely on analyzing these collections and which
metrics are applicable to them in order to identify consensus
customizations.
Nina has written a paper in which she describes her approach and what is
needed to find this lean consensus customization (your data!):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jYDT0TkYP9Tg31Ldd9gFmdwSiu98Q2mg_qOuhgnxpRc/
You may skip most technical discussions for the time being and navigate
right to the last section called "Data Collection". It is a call to
action that asks you to donate some of your valuable JATS files to
research. Or you can use some XSLT [3] in order to extract
element/attribute name lists from the JATS files yourselves so you need
not send potentially proprietary data to someone else.
Please donate generously, and if possible do it by March 1st. Nina's
thesis needs to be completed by June.
You are allowed to add comments and suggestions to the Google doc, you
may of course file issues and pull requests in the Github repo, and you
can contact Nina and/or me via this list or direct email messages if you
have questions or suggestions.
On behalf of Nina (and myself),
Gerrit
[1]
https://www.biglist.com/lists/lists.mulberrytech.com/jats-list/archives/202009/msg00019.html
[2]
https://www.biglist.com/lists/lists.mulberrytech.com/jats-list/archives/202004/msg00030.html
[3] https://github.com/nreinhar/JATS_Customizing_Analysis/
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