The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced that it will be holding its second Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, on September 26-27, 2011.
The conference is intended for users of NLM's Journal Article Tag Suite, a set of standards to publish, author, archive or exchange journal articles and other documents. Originally developed as the data structure for journals participating in NLM's PubMed Central archive, the Tag Suite has achieved strong acceptance among publishers and authors and has been adopted by the Portico and Highwire Press archives, the British Library, and the Library of Congress for electronic journal articles. The Tag Suite will soon be standardised as National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Z39.96.
JATS-Con will be held in the Natcher Conference Center at NIH and will be videocast. The peer-reviewed conference will include a broad range of information on the Tag Suite, from the technical to publishing theory, and will feature speakers from NLM, the Library of Congress, and many others.
To register for the free conference or to watch the videocast, interested parties may visit the JATS-Con website at http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/jats-con. The agenda, proceedings from the 2011 and 2010 conference, and information for visitors are also available on the website.
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