Marcalyc: XML JATS Markup System

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

Origins: Identifying the need of
Latin American and Caribbean
Social Sciences and Humanities
become more visible
Emergence: An iniciative
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
thinking about sustainability and
digital publishing technology for
all scientific knowledge
Emergence: The initiative
emerged as the result of
Redalyc’s experience in order to
build a communication system
for Latin America’s and the
Global South’s journals as a
response to the financial
sustainability crisis

A little bit of background on XML
• It is not a markup language.
• It is 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
SGML

XML File
• It 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 to the platforms.
• It is 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 that 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 versión Z39.96 2012 (ISO
z39.96-2015 (JATS 1.1; Current Standard).

•An online tool for the XML tagging of articles that
aligns with JATS standards. A free of charge
service offered to the OA journals indexed in
Redalyc.
•A friendly and intuitive software that doesn’t
require advanced technical knowledge, for the
editors of scientific journals and authors to use.
•Redalyc keeps upgrading the XML JATS
Marcalyc tool, offered to more than 700 journals .
Currently Marcalyc is under its 2.0.14 version

Some of the Advantages of
Implementing XML-JATS
are:

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

Digital Preservation
• Digital Preservation consists of a series of processes destined
to gain permanent accessibility to digital products. To guarantee
this it is necessary to find ways of representing what was
originally presented to users, through a set of equipment and
software that can process the 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 magazine and
the article
Graphic and textual
content corresponding to
the scientific article
References. appendix.
acknowledgements.
glossary.
Are used frequently
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 atributes

XML-JATS: markup process
The tagging XML JATS process requires it to be done in the following order:
Front Back Body
1º 2º 3º
This is because all the information that is identified on the references and footnotes (part
of the Back) is needed to tag the quotes found in the article.

<front>
<journal-meta><article-meta>
contains
Información de la
revista:
• Title.
• Abbreviated
Journal Title
• ISSN.
• Publisher.
Information about the Article:
• Article title.
• Translated title.
• Name
• Affiliation.
• Author Comments.
• Abstract.
• Keywords.
• Volume Number.
• Issue.
• Páge Ranges.
• History.
• License Informations.
• 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)
Its used to
To provide functionalities to
the viewer, in addition to
providing the necessary data
for bibliometric analysis.
Contains the information for each
reference, both the original and
detailed. 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.
• List.
• Graphics contained within the text.
• Quotations.
<sig-block>
Signature Block
used as The main textual portion of the
document that conveys the narrative
content, it is used for visualizing tables,
images, equations, and every other
piece of information that corresponds
to the article itself.

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