The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has opened the call for proposals for JATS-Con 2026, the annual user conference for the Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS). The event will be held on February 16, 2026, at the Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, Maryland, preceding the NISO Plus 2026 Conference.
JATS-Con welcomes papers examining the use or extension of JATS and related models including Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS), TaxPub, and NISO Standards Tag Set (NISO STS). Suggested topics include:
• 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 run 35 minutes followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. Proposals are due December 12, 2025; notifications will follow December 30, and full papers, submitted in XML format, are due January 30, 2026. Accepted papers will appear in the open-access JATS-Con Proceedings on the NCBI Bookshelf.
The event aims to advance best practices for content tagging, metadata management, and workflow standardization across scholarly publishing processes.
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