Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) is an application that defines a set of XML elements and attributes for tagging journal articles, published as ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012 on 22 August 2012 . JATS is the successor to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) DTD.

JATS provides a common XML format in which publishers and archives can exchange journal content by preserving the intellectual content of journals independent of the form in which that content was originally delivered. In addition to the element and attribute descriptions, three journal article tag sets are part of the standard:

• Archiving and Interchange Tag Set,
• Journal Publishing Tag Set, and
• Article Authoring Tag Set.

If you want to know more about JATS, you can access to the Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con) Proceedings 2012 (in open access!). Among many interesting articles, to be highlighted mapping NISO JATS v1.0 to RDF using the SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies by S. Peroni (University of Bologna), D.A. Lapeyre (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.) and D. Shotton (University of Oxford).

The article presents JATS2RDF v1.0, a mapping of the principle metadata components of JATS from XML to RDF. The mapping uses the SPAR ontologies, together with elements from other well-known vocabularies such as the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Metadata Terms and the Friend of a Friend (FOAF) Vocabulary. Authors believe that this ability to express in RDF the JATS Journal Publishing Tag Library metadata descriptions will promote the use of JATS to a wider community.