JATS-Con Asia in Tokyo

Abstract: JATS was created to solve specific issues of electronic journal publication and archiving. As e-journal publishing has expanded and evolved, JATS has been continually updated to meet new publishing requirements. This presentation will describe the history of JATS, recent JATS developments, and use of JATS features for Asian- and multiple-language content. The talk will also discuss how JATS fits into the expanding ecosystem of scholarly publishing standards, and how these standards provide the foundation for innovative new publication systems.

Abstract: A Japanese-language journal has been converted into the JATS XML format, and typeset automatically via XSL-FO to produce both the printed issues and online journals which are published on the J-STAGE e-journal platform in full-text HTML. As there is no established XML workflow tools available for Japanese language journals, the Nakanishi Printing Company has developed its own workflow using AH (Antenna House) Formatter. AS STM journals are by-and-large in international standards even in Japanese-language, typesetting is fairly straightforward.  Still, there are several challenges in processing agglutinative languages which are common in Asian counties such as Japanese, such as identifying family names/given names in a name string, or inserting "Zero Width Joiner" to avoid unfavorable line breaks.  Also we had to develop individual XSLT for each article to position tables and figures rightly. As we go on and work with humanities journals we should face more challenges.

Abstract: Ichushi Web, which is medical bibliographic and abstracts database, annually adds records for 400,000 medical and related articles published in 6,000 Japanese journals (3,000 are current).  Although most of the record data are created manually from printed publications, we have been receiving machine data for some journals since 2007.  Initially, we asked publishers to use our proprietary DTD, which only few publishers accepted.  Thus we decided to introduce JATS to invite more publishers, and implemented the system in 2014.  We now receive electronic data from about 80 journals, but plan to receive more. JATS data thus received are divided into several fractions such as bibliographic data and abstracts, link-related data such as DOI, and citation data.  Link-related data are used to deposit DOI data to JaLC (Japan Link Center), enriched with links, and then sent back to publishers.

Abstract: There are many challenges in implementing a multi-lingual publishing process.  This presentation will focus on identifying these challenges and strategies to address them in a JATS and BITS publishing processes.  This paper will specifically focus on issues such as selecting the optimum point in the publishing process for content translation, treatment of translated and generated content and addressing the limitations of fonts that cover a limited number of languages in a multi-lingual environment.  Finally the session will recommend some best practice approaches in implementing a multi-lingual publishing process.

Abstract: Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE) is a producer and service provider of three eminent databases of Korean biomedical journals. KoreaMed (http://koreamed.org) is an abstract database; Synapse (http://synapse.koreamed.org) is a full text e-journal database serving as the digital archive and reference linking platform of journal articles; and Korean Medical Citation Index (KoMCI, http://komci.org) is a citation index. KAMJE is also a major data provider to PubMed Central and PubMed/MEDLINE for Korean journals. Once an XML file is faithfully marked up as described in the PubMed Central Tagging Guidelines, previously in NLM DTD 2.3, now in JATS 1.0, the file is used for the creation and generation of records for each and every databases mentioned above. A CrossRef DOI deposit XML file is also extracted from the JATS full text XML file. JATS certainly is a journal article tag suite. More importantly, we found JATS is an excellent guide which elaborates the best practices in tagging journal articles.

Abstract: J-STAGE is a platform system that supports publishing electronic scholarly journals related to science and technology in Japan. The presentation will introduce overview of J-STAGE including description of the trend of XML format articles on J-STAGE and the approaches aimed at enhancing overseas visibility in the next version of J-STAGE. In the next version we are considering improving usability of full text HTML pages to promote the dissemination of scholarly information in XML format.