The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that its draft Content Profile/Linked Document (CP/LD) standard is open for public comments through May 12, 2023, at the project web page.
Users today expect contextualized, bite-sized, targeted content delivered as a natural part of their research. However, current content standards in scholarly publishing are typically based on a small number of large, complex XML document models, biased by online publication workflows and formats that continue to be built primarily on print or PDF outputs.
The new NISO CP/LD standard will provide a flexible industry standard for linking and combining academic, research, and professional content, data, and semantics. It defines a machine-readable, self-describing, standards-based mark-up format that can be used to exchange data between systems, APIs, and services. CP/LD is not intended to replace existing models used for journal articles, books, data sets, or semantic and metadata schemes. Instead, this new standard enables arbitrary portions of content, data, semantics, and other resources from separate sources to be combined into a single, standards-based format optimized for interchange, search, and display. Stratification of the document into different layers or roles—content, structure, narrative data, and semantic data—is key to the CP/LD standard, allowing the specific requirements for each role to be addressed.
The draft CP/LD standard is available for public comment through May 12, 2023, here: https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/cpld
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