[Eril-l] NISO Releases Content Profile/Linked Document Standard

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Baltimore, MD — December 12, 2023: The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) today announced publication of its newest
standard, ANSI/NISO
Z39.105-2023, Content Profile/Linked Document (CP/LD)
<https://www.niso.org/publications/z39105-2023-cpld>, which enables
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.

For most disciplines, the journal article remains the primary means of
communicating the outputs of scholarly research. As a result, publishing
workflows and systems as well as the information standards supporting them
have been largely based on large XML document models. Increasingly,
however, users also expect to access articles and associated content—e.g.,
research data, semantics, code, models, and images—in smaller, arbitrary
portions or “chunks.”

The CP/LD Standard addresses this growing need by providing flexible
instructions for linking and combining academic, research, and professional
content, data, and semantics in a single package. It defines a
machine-readable, self-describing, standards-based markup format that can
be used to exchange data between systems, APIs, and services. The new
standard advances scholarly research by enabling users to engage with a
specific portion of content at the appropriate time in the research
lifecycle, including prior to publication. CP/LD does not replace existing
models and standards—e.g., ANSI/NISO Z39.96, Journal Article Tag Suite
(JATS)—used for articles, books, data sets, or semantic and metadata
schemes, but rather complements them.

“We are excited to support the publication of this important and timely new
standard,” noted Suzanne BeDell, consultant and co-chair of the NISO CP/LD
Working Group. “The CP/LD Standard was developed in response to the growing
need to communicate research in new and different ways and formats. The
working group wrote the standard to support access, accessibility,
collaboration, and reproducibility through all aspects of the research
lifecycle and across different corpuses and domains.” Fellow co-chair Bill
Kasdorf, Principal of Kasdorf & Associates, added, “It’s significant that
this standard is itself standards-based, using HTML, JSON-LD, and schema.org,
which are well known, well supported, and routinely employed. This should
enable CP/LD to be widely adopted by the community, and it is with wide
adoption that the standard will have the greatest impacts accelerating
research and discovery.”

“How users interact with academic content is ever-evolving, and NISO is
pleased to support researchers and the broader scholarly communications
ecosystem with CP/LD,” said NISO Executive Director Todd Carpenter. “We
thank Suzanne, Bill, and all Working Group members who contributed to the
development of the new standard and congratulate them on its publication.”

The NISO Content Profile/Linked Document standard is freely available at
https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/cpld.

About NISO
Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO’s mission is to build knowledge, foster
discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through
collaboration among the cultural, scholarly, scientific, and professional
communities. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages with libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information
standards. NISO is a nonprofit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO
website (https://niso.org) or contact us at nisohq at niso.org.

NISO
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302
Baltimore, MD 21211
Phone: 301.654.2512
E-mail: nishoq at niso.org
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