The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that its Standing Committee for Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) has invited Sheridan’s Mary McRae to serve on the committee.
The JATS Tag Suite began as the NLM Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite and was sent to NISO for standardization in August 2009. It was approved as a NISO standard in 2012. JATS provides a common XML format in which publishers and archives can exchange journal content by preserving the intellectual content of journals independent of the form in which that content was originally delivered. In addition to the element and attribute descriptions, three journal article tag sets (the Archiving and Interchange Tag Set, the Journal Publishing Tag Set, and the Article Authoring Tag Set) are part of the standard. While designed to describe the textual and graphical content of journal articles, it has been widely adopted for other uses, including the production and maintenance of ISO standards.
McRae, who joined Dartmouth Journal Services as Director of Publishing Technology in 2012, has served on numerous technical committees focused on developing standardised markup vocabularies including DocBook, DITA, and Open Document Format.
