Talk:Journal Article Tag Suite

Definition is scarily technical
It would be nice to put a plain English description right at the start of the summary. Starting off with this is not terribly friendly for ordinary humans:

"The NISO Journal Article Tag Suite, or simply JATS, is formally the technical standard of the US-based NISO Z39.96 2012-08-22 (NISO JATS 1.0). It is an open science data initiative for scientific literature, defining an XML format that describes the structure semantic[1] and metadata for scientific digital contents."

I would change that to something like:

" The NISO Journal Article Tag Suite, or simply JATS, is an XML format for publishing in science journals.

''JATS is formally the technical standard of the US-based NISO Z39.96 2012-08-22 (NISO JATS 1.0). It is an open science data initiative for scientific literature, defining an XML format that describes the structure semantic[1] and metadata for scientific digital contents.' "

Aelfgifu (talk) 15:48, 4 December 2015 (UTC)


 * good point. I polished up the intro a bit; feel free to make any other improvements you can think of.—Neil P. Quinn (talk) 20:19, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

About the article's name
--Krauss (talk) 21:53, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
 * "JATS": I created only this wikipedia article, no redirection (no alternative title for the article);
 * "Journal Article Tag Suite": better, because in past was "NLM JATS" and in the future can be "ISO JATS";
 * "NISO JATS" or "NISO Journal Article Tag Suite": not seems good.

Please check?
The article currently has the ff. line: "PubMed Central: (please check these numbers)". I'm guessing that the "please check these numbers" part was someone's request to other editors of this article to check the #s that follow. Does that seem probable? In which case those words should be removed, and possibly a note put somewhere else. Mcswell (talk) 19:11, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Check perfomance of this article
This article started in February 2014... When the (Feb. and Apr.) the statistics of traffic was less than 5 pageviews/day. After stable content, in March 2014 (2014-03), the statistics increased to more than ~5 pageviews/day in 2014-03 and 2014-04...

Them adding of links in related articles, in 2014-09, increase to average ~10 pageviews/day... (of course Google etc, knowing the content, also generated pageviews)... Edits on 2015-01 and some more links pointing to this article, increased to more than 12 pageviews/day in June and September 2015. PS: this article have less visits at school holidays and weekends.

Please, check the lasted 90 days average here to check the growing... And do more links (from other articles or from external sites) to this article! The traffic can grow!

--Krauss (talk) 16:51, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Example xmlns weirdness
The example claims to be a minimal example of an article, but its treatment of XML namespaces seems a bit odd. It defines prefixes for MathML and xlink; while these are certainly useful things, I somehow doubt they are mandatory, since not every article contains a math formula or hyperlink (even if many do). On the other hand, it does not define the default namespace, so the elements shown are in no namespace at all. Is that even correct? Finally, one would like to see an example with at least some content. Would it be necessary to at least wrap the paragraphs of body text up in XHTML p tags, or is it somehow possible to make do without tags in the body? 130.243.94.123 (talk) 15:46, 9 March 2023 (UTC)