Archiving and Interchange Tag Set

This Tag Set was created from the Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite, which provides a set of schema modules that define elements and attributes for describing the textual and graphical content of journal articles as well as some non-article material such as letters, editorials, and book and product reviews.

The Suite of Modules

The intent of this Tag Suite is to preserve the intellectual content of journals independent of the form in which that content was originally delivered. The Suite has been written as a set of XML schema modules, each of which is a separate physical file. No module is an entire schema by itself, but these modules can be combined into a number of different schemas.

The Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite may be used as is, or the Suite can be used to construct Tag Sets for authoring and archiving journal articles as well as schemas for transferring journal articles from publishers to archives and between archives. Details on creating Tag Sets from the Suite are available in the Tag Library. Although the full Suite was developed to support electronic production, the structures should be adequate to support some print production as well.

[Note: NCBI/NLM also created a DTD for the submission of citations and abstracts for MEDLINE/PubMed that predated this Suite full-text effort. If you want to submit citations and abstracts to NLM for inclusion in PubMed/MEDLINE, use the PubMed Journal Article DTD. Detailed information is available from the PubMed web site: Information for Publishers re: XML Tagged Data.]

Using the Suite

These Tag Sets and the Suite are in the public domain. An organization that wants to create its own schema from the Suite may do so without permission from NLM.

The Suite has been set up to be extended using a new schema file and a new schema-specific customization module to redefine the many Parameter Entities. Do not modify the Suite directly or redistribute modified versions of the Suite.

In the interest of maintaining consistency and clarity for potential users, NLM requests:

Documentation

Introduction	An introduction to the content of the Tag Library, to the design philosophy and intended usage of the Archiving and Interchange DTD Suite, and to the Journal Archiving and Interchange DTD.
Elements Section	Descriptions of the elements used in the Journal Archiving and Interchange DTD and DTD Suite modules.
Attributes Section	Descriptions of the attributes in the DTD modules.
Parameter Entity Section	Names (with occasional descriptions) and contents of the Parameter Entities in the DTD modules.
Context Table	Listings of where each element may be used. All elements are given in a simple alphabetical list. There is a single table for the elements from all the Suite modules that are called from the DTD.
Document Hierarchy Diagrams	Tree-like graphical representations of the content of many elements. This can be a fast visual way to determine the structure of an article or of any element within an article.
Index by Tag Name	Index of element descriptions, alphabetically by tag name (element-type name).
Index by Element Name	Index of element descriptions, alphabetically by element name (the longer, more descriptive name).
DTD Section	Copies of the Journal Archiving and Interchange DTD, its customization module, and the full Archiving and Interchange DTD Suite of XML DTD modules described in the Tag Library.

Frequently Asked Questions

Getting the Files

Updates

Version

Version 2.3 was released on March 28, 2007. A detailed explaination of the changes from version 2.2 is available in the v2.3 Change Report.

W3C XML Schema Version

A W3C XML Schema has been generated from the DTD. The Schema version describes the same content model as the DTD. Information is available on the W3C XML Schema page.

RELAX NG Schema Version

A RELAX NG Schema has been generated from the DTD. The Schema version describes the same content model as the DTD. Information is available on the RELAX NG Schema page.

Feedback

Any suggestions for changes to the Tag Set or documentation should be made through the Journal Article Tag Set Comment Form at the Mulberry Technolgies site.

Related DTDs

The Journal Publishing DTD, a prescriptive DTD optimized for the initial XML tagging of journal material for PubMed Central, was created from the Suite also.

The Article Authoring DTD, a prescriptive DTD optimized for authoring articles directly in XML was created from the Suite also.

NCBI has also created two DTDs for textbooks from the modules. Details are here: Book DTD.

Tools

NLM has created an XSL transform to HTML for previewing content in the Archiving and Interchange DTD and a Cascading Style Sheet to support it.

XML Information

Links to general information on XML, XSLT, Unicode™, and XLink are available on the XML Resources page.