Carpenter "We All Know the Benefits of Standards: Let's Apply That Knowledge to Publishing Standards"
1. We All Know the Benefits
of Standards:
Let’s Apply That Knowledge
to Publishing Standards
Todd Carpenter
Executive Director, NISO
Typefi Users Conference
Baltimore, MD
May 2, 2019
2. ➢ Non-profit trade association SDO accredited by ANSI
➢ Mission of developing and maintaining technical standards
related to information, documentation, discovery and
distribution of published materials and media
➢ Volunteer driven organization: 230+ members and
500+ contributors spread out across the world
➢ Responsible for standards like ISSN, DOI, Dublin Core
metadata, DAISY talking books, OpenURL & MARC records
➢ US Technical Advisory Group to ISO TC 46 (Information &
documentation) & its five SCs, the JTC 1/SC 34 (Document
description and processing languages), and also serves as
ISO TC46/SC9 (Identification & Description) Secretariat
About
3. We don’t think twice about the
value of standards in creating
efficiencies in manufacturing
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5. And there are standards
aplenty in the publishing world
going way, way, way back
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6. Photo: Maggie McCain -
Flickr: PB103474
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UPPER-CASE
lower-case
Page Numbering
Ben Franklin’s A Scheme for a new
Alphabet and a Reformed Mode of
Spelling:
“Color” is how you spell “colour”
7. Can we create standards
that are native to our current
digital environment?
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30. NISO Tag Suite Family
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NLM
JATS 1.1 (NISO
Z39.96-2015)
ISO STS
BITS
NISO STS
31. A Quick History on ISO STS
• ISO Goals:
– Improve ISO publication process
– Output in many formats: PDF, HTML or EPUB
– Create change documents (redlines)
– See: Rosenblum, B. Standards Engineering,
Vol. 65, No. 6, November/December 2013
• Worked with consultant
– Reviewed existing XML standards for
documents, such as DITA, DocBook, JATS, TEI
32. ISO Standards Tag Set (ISO STS)
Originally developed by ISO in 2011
Based on NISO Z39.96 – JATS
“Wherever possible closely aligned
with JATS with minimal changes to
tags or definitions”
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33. ISO STS in Public
• Nicholas Fleury introduced ISO STS at 39th SPAB
• ISO posted to public Website
– http://www.iso.org/schema/isosts/
– DTD, Documentation, other resources
– Available for other standards developers
34. Origins of NISO STS in 2015
• ISO recognized the need to maintain alignment
between JATS & STS
• Adapt and expand STS to meet the needs of
broader set of SDOs, especially WRT metadata
• Expand participation by a variety of SDOs
• Move maintenance of STS to a neutral 3rd party
organization
35. Why use JATS Foundation for STS?
• Standards & journal articles share structures
– Sections
– Tables
– Figures
– Equations
– Bibliography
• Well-developed and well-tested model
• Easily modifiable for standards use
• Strong third party support
36. NISO STS Development
Steering Committee
Kim Breitfelder, IEEE
Jo Collins, NEN
Keith Doubleday, IHS Global
Becky Fadik, SAE International
Laurent Galichet, ISO
Linda Guard, U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention
Debbie Lapeyre, Mulberry Technologies, Inc.
Eamonn Neylon, Signal Arc
Gareth Oakes, Global Publishing Solutions
Evan Owens, Cenveo Publisher Services
Markus Plessel, IEEE
Tim Preuss, Silverchair Information Systems
Karen Reczek, NIST
Antti Saari, SFS
Ivan Salcedo, BSI
Al Sanders, Boeing,
Greg Saunders, , OASD-R&E
Brian Trombley, DCL
B. Tommie Usdin, Mulberry Technologies, Inc.
Mike Visser, Thomson Reuters
Lesley West, ASTM
Cord Wischhöfer, DIN
Elizabeth Wolf, Copyright Clearance Center
Hong Xu, CEN
Wei Zhao, Ontario Council of University Libraries
Observers:
George Gulla, ANSI
Bob Hager, ANSI
Co-chairs
Bruce Rosenblum, Inera Inc.
Robert Wheeler, ASME
Working Group Members
37. NISO STS Development
Technical Committee
Matt Brown, BSI
Heather Flanagan, IETF
Laurent Galichet, ISO
Howard Gilson, ASTM
Frans Gooskens, NEN
Vinay Gupta, Edaptive Technologies LLC
Bob Hollowell, ASME
Gerrit Imsieke, le-tex Publishing Services
* JATS & BITS Working Group Members
Serge Juillerat, ISO
Debbie Lapeyre, Mulberry Technologies, Inc.*
Nikos Markantonatos, Atypon Systems Inc.*
Mary McRae, Dartmouth Journal Services
Ken Rawson, IEEE
B. Tommie Usdin, Mulberry Technologies, Inc.*
David Winchell, XSB Inc.
Observer:
Bob Dreyfuss, Consultant
Co-chairs
Bruce Rosenblum, Inera Inc.*
Robert Wheeler, ASME
Working Group Members
41. STS Benefits: New Products
• Easier production of HTML, ePub, Mobile
• Develop new products
– e.g. ISO Online Browsing Platform
• Aids when multiple standards are used across an
enterprise or for a single project;
• Co-publish standards
• Interchange with distributor partners
• Inter-standard linking
– Click-through linking
– Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
42. STS Benefits: Adoption
• Consistent metadata delivery to distribution
partners
• Site-crawling indexers benefit from
consistencies
• Encourage adoption with industry users that
are publishing internal standards
Lower costs and more efficient production
43. STS Adopters
– API (1)
– ASI (Austria) (1)
– ASCE (1)*
– ASME (2)
– ASTM (2)
– AWWA (1)
– BSI (1)
– CEN (1)
– CSA (2)
– DIN (1)
– Danish Standards (1)
Adopted (1)/Adopting (2)/Considering (3)
ISOSTS or JATS-based*
– IEC (2)
– IEEE (1)*
– ISO (1)
– NEN (1)
– NISO (3)
– NIST (2)
– Standards AU (1)
– SAE (1)*
– SFS (1)
– SIS (2)
– Standards Norway (1)
– U.S. DoD (2)
44. NISO Tag Suite Family
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NLM
JATS 1.1 (NISO
Z39.96-2015)
ISO STS
BITS
NISO STS
45. JATS Family Release History
• NLM 1.0: released April 2003
• NLM 2.0: released December 2004
• NLM 2.3: released March 2007
• NLM 3.0: released November 2008
• Moved to NISO, renamed JATS: July 2009
• First JATS-Con: November 2010
• ANSI NISO Z39.96 JATS 1.0: released August 2012
• BITS 1.0: released December 2013
• ANSI NISO Z39.96 JATS 1.1: released January 2016
• BITS 2.0: released February 2016
• (Launch of Standards-Specific Ontology Project January 2019)
• ANSI NISO Z39.96. JATS 1.2: released February 2019
47. We took initial $150,000 investment
Added 100+ XML expert volunteers
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48. We took initial $150,000 investment
Added 100+ XML expert volunteers
Added another fifteen years of work
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49. We took initial $150,000 investment
Added 100+ XML expert volunteers
Added another fifteen years of work
Tens of thousand dollars more
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50. We took initial $150,000 investment
Added 100+ XML expert volunteers
Added another fifteen years of work
Tens of thousand dollars more
Focused it on the standards
community
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