[Eril-l] JATS-Con to Be Hosted in Baltimore as a NISO Plus 2025 Pre-conference

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**Apologies for cross posting**

Next year’s JATS-Con <https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/jats-con/upcoming.html>, the
user conference for the Journal Article Tag Suite Standard (ANSI/NISO
Z39.96-2024) <https://niso.org/standards-committees/jats>, will be held as
a pre-conference day associated with the annual NISO Plus Baltimore
<https://niso.plus/niso-plus-2025-baltimore/>meeting on February 10, 2025
at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. This is the first JATS-Con since 2023
and the first to be held in person since 2019.

The Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) is an XML format used to describe
scientific literature published online. First published by NISO in 2012,
the standard built on the work of the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
and was popularized by the NLM’s PubMed Central as a de facto standard for
the interchange of scientific open access journals content. The latest
revision (Version 1.4) to JATS was published earlier this year. JATS-Con
will bring diverse perspectives to bear on the standard, exploring
different tools for working with JATS, JATS workflows, possible future
enhancements, and more.

NISO Plus Baltimore attendees will now have their choice of three
pre-conferences
<https://niso.plus/niso-plus-2025-baltimore-pre-conferences/>, including
JATS-Con as well as a workshop on AI in scholarly publishing and a session
on assessing open access usage for scholarly books. “We are delighted that
JATS-Con is returning in person, just in time for our February meeting in
Baltimore,” said Jason Griffey, Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO.
“There is of course lots of crossover interest among attendees of the two
meetings, and we expect many of them to participate in both events. The
week promises to be full of productive conversations on facilitating the
flow of information in scholarly communications.”

The JATS-Con call for papers
<https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/jats-con/callforparticipation.html> is now open
through December 20, 2024. Proposals are welcome from anyone in the
information community wishing to explore topics related 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). Information on the
types of topics covered at past conferences and instructions on how to
submit a proposal can be found on the JATS-Con website
<https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/jats-con/callforparticipation.html>.

Tickets for JATS-Con, the NISO Plus 2025 in Baltimore meeting, or the NISO
Plus Baltimore pre-conferences, are available on our conference
registration page
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/niso-plus-baltimore-2025-tickets-1038096132477>
.

Best wishes,

The NISO Team



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