Marcalyc: XML JATS Markup System A tool to approach and preserve

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Marcalyc - XML JATS Markup System
Marcalyc: XML JATS Markup System
A tool to approach and preserve knowledge for everyone

Origins: The need of Latin
American and Caribbean Social
Sciences and Humanities to
become more visible is
identified
Inception: Founded by the
research group “Science
Communication and
Dissemination”, from the
Autonomous University of the
State of Mexico

Origins: The need to build a
communication infrastructure
considering sustainability and
digital publishing technology
for all scientific knowledge is
acknowledged
Inception: The initiative
emerged as the result of
Redalyc’s experience aiming to
build a communication system
for Latin America’s and the
Global South’s journals in
response to the financial
sustainability crisis

A little bit of background on XML
• It’s not a markup language.
• It's a meta-markup language.
• XML has a compound of simple rules.
• It provides a uniform method to describe and mix structured data
• It describes the structure and semantics, not the format.
• EXtensible Markup Language
SGML
1986
Electronic
Publishing
Challenges
1991
Web
Presentation
Challenges 1996
Data
Presentation
Challenges
HTML
XML

XML File
• comprises the following elements:
Closing tag
Name of the element
<name> James </name>
Content
Opening tag

• The content is set apart from any presentation
related notion.
• The XML is an International Standard
independent of the platforms.
• It’s also an open format that can be interpreted
by any software.
• The XML can also be exchanged between
systems that might not have been designed for
such specific purpose.

• JATS (Journal Article Tag Suite) is a technical standard. An initiative that
defines an XML formatting to describe structure, semantics, and
metadata for digital scientific content.
• It provides a set of elements and XML attributions to describe graphic and
textual content for journal articles.
• JATS is a technical standard based on the National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) currently on version Z39.96 2012 (ISO z39.96-2015
(JATS 1.1; Current Standard).

•An online tool for the XML tagging of articles
compliant with JATS standards. A cost-free service
offered to OA journals indexed in Redalyc.
• An intuitive and user-friendly software for
scientific journal editors and authors that needs no
advanced technical knowledge to use it.
•Redalyc continuously upgrades the XML JATS
Marcalyc tool, offered to more than 700 journals.
Currently Marcalyc is under its 2.0.14 version

Some Advantages of
Implementing XML-JATS…

Visualization and ubiquity of scientific content, a
new reading experience.

Digital Preservation
• Digital Preservation consists of a series of processes intended to
gain permanent accessibility to digital products. To secure this,
we need to find ways of representing what was originally
presented to users through a set of equipment and software that
can process data. (UNESCO)
• Control the content using structured metadata and other
documents that facilitate access and help throughout the
preservation process.
• Any XML article is expected to be more durable than other
proprietary program products, which makes them useful for
preservation.

Information recovery and interoperability
• Without “smart” content
it’s imposible to exploit
smart search engines
• Finding the right content
• Obtaining condensed
information
• Having a more in-depth
web search

<article>
According to NCBI
(2015)
It contains
<front> <body> <back> <floats-group>
<response> or
<sub-article>
Contains metadata, from
both the journal and the
article
Graphic and textual
content corresponding to
the scientific article
References. appendix.
acknowledgements.
glossary.
Often used
XML-JATS Structure
Container
element for
floating objects
(figures, tables,
text boxes,
graphics, etc.)
Reply, response,
or commentary
concerning the
journal article.
263 tags and 135 attributes

XML-JATS: markup process
The steps of the XML JATS tagging process are as follows:
Front Back Body
1º 2º 3º
This is so because all the information that is identified in the references and footnotes
(included in the Back) is needed to tag citations quoted within the article.

<front>
<journal-meta><article-meta>
contains
Journal information:
• Title.
• Short Journal Title
• ISSN.
• Publisher.
Article information:
• Article title.
• Translated title.
• Name
• Affiliation.
• Author Comments.
• Abstract.
• Keywords.
• Volume Number.
• Issue.
• Page Ranges.
• History.
• License Information.
• Uniform Resource
Identifier.
• Funding.
• Related Article
Information

<back>
contains
<ack>
Acknowledgments
<fn-group>
Footnote Group
<app-group>
Appendix Group
<glossary>
Glossary
Elements List
<ref-list>
Reference List (Bibliographic)
Used to
Aside from providing
functionalities to the viewer, it
offers the necessary data for
bibliometric analysis.
Contains the information for each
reference, both the original and
detailed one. It holds more tags that are
used to describe the content of each
reference, for example:
• Surname.
• Given (First) Names.
• Article Title.
• Source (Journal Title).
• Chapter Title in a Citation.
• Source (Book title).
• Year, Volume, Issue and Page
Ranges.

<body>
contains
<sec>
Section
contains
<title>
Title of the section
<p>
Paragraph
• Text.
• Bibliographic references, Figures, tables,
equations, etc.
• URLs.
• Lists.
• Graphics contained within the text.
• Quotations.
<sig-block>
Signature Block
used as The main textual portion of the
document that conveys the narrative
content, used for visualizing tables,
images, equations, and every other
piece of information that corresponds
to the article itself.

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