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Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con): Call for Participation

Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con)

November 2024

This year’s JATS-Con, the user conference for the Journal Article Tag Suite Standard (NISO Z39.96-2021), will be held as a pre-conference day associated with the annual NISO Plus Baltimore meeting on February 10, 2025 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. Registration for JATS-Con 2025 is now open. 

JATS-Con seeks papers relevant to the use or non-use of the JATS or an extension such as the Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS), TaxPub, or the NISO Standards Tag Set (STS). The following topics are suggestions only:

  • 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 be 35 minutes in length, in English, followed by 10 minutes of questions and answers or audience discussion.

Presenters at JATS-Con are required to:

  • Provide a full paper, in XML and  using the Article Authoring Tag Set, on or before January 31, 2025
  • Give a 35-min presentation, in English, based on the paper at NISO Plus in Baltimore
  • Participate in a 10-minute discussion with the audience immediately after the paper is presented
  • Provide on-site materials (slides) to the conference committee in HTML, PowerPoint, PDF, or OpenOffice format
  • Grant permission to the NLM to archive and post a copy of the paper and onsite materials on the conference proceedings website

The JATS-Con Proceedings will be published on the NCBI Bookshelf, freely available to the public. See the Proceedings from 2010-2023 at JATS-Con Proceedings

Conference Editorial Schedule

December 20, 2024: Paper proposals due

January 3, 2025: Speakers notified

January 31, 2025: Full papers due for Online Proceedings

To submit a proposal, send your proposed title, abstract, and list of contributors as a word processing or text file to jats-con@ncbi.nlm.niih.gov by December 20, 2024. 

Please contact Jeffrey Beck at jats-con@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov if you have any questions.