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IntroductionThe National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a center of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), created the Journal Publishing Document Type Definition (DTD) with the intent of providing a common format for the creation of journal content in XML. For journals that have not selected an SGML/XML model, NCBI will encourage the use of this DTD to define the incoming data for PubMed Central, the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature. AncestryThe DTD was constructed using the modules of the Archiving and Interchange DTD Suite and has been modeled along the same philosophical lines as the Archiving and Interchange DTD, which is a DTD for interchange and storage of journal material. However, because this is a publishing DTD optimized for the creation of new material, the DTD is far smaller (fewer elements and fewer choices in many contexts) than the full Journal Archiving and Interchange DTD. The philosophy for the interchange DTD was to accept as many varied forms of as many structures as possible. The philosophy of this DTD is to prefer a single structural form, or at least a single style of tagging to simplify the creation of content in XML. Not a Strict SubsetThe only element in the Publishing DTD that is not in the Archiving and Interchange DTD is the NLM Citation Model (<nlm-citation>). This citation model is more prescriptive than <citation>. This model and the extensive examples of tagged citations provided are intended to encourage the creation of citations according to NLM's guidelines. PubMed/MEDLINEIf 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. DocumentationThe complete documentation for the Journal Publishing DTD is available in the tag library http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/tag-library. The Tag Library contains the following sections:
Also, the DTD modules themselves are well commented. Frequently Asked QuestionsA Frequently Asked Questions page is available. Getting the FilesThe DTD files and W3C Schema version are available by anonymous FTP: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/publishing_dtd. A direct link to the files is available: ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/publishing_dtd/journal-publishing-dtd-1.1.zip and ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/publishing_dtd/journal-publishing-dtd-1.1.zip. The DTD is available on the Web: http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/1.1/journalpublishing.dtd The W3C Schema is available on the Web: http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/1.1/xsd/journalpublishing.xsd UpdatesVersionThe current version of the Journal Publishing DTD is v1.1. Version 1.1 was released on November 5, 2003. A detailed explanation of the changes from version 1.0 is available in the General Introduction to the v1.1 Tag Library. Version 1.0 is available here: http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.0/. W3C Schema VersionA W3C Schema has been generated from the DTD. The Schema version describes the same content model as the DTD. Information is available on the W3C Schema page. Working Group and SecretariatBecause this DTD has been created to define incoming data for PubMed Central, NCBI will manage all updates. These updates will be based on suggestions from the XML Interchange Structure Working Group. This group advises NLM on recommended changes in and/or additions to the tag set. The first meeting of the Working Group was held on August 18, 2003. The meeting notes are available as a Word document (AITWG-08-18-2003.doc). NLM has contracted with Mulberry Technologies, Inc. of Rockville, MD to act as Archiving and Interchange Tagset Secretariat. The Secretariat will collect the feedback to be discussed by the Working Group and will maintain the files and documentation. FeedbackIf you are creating content for PMC and have any questions or comments, please email them to publishing-dtd@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. This is a public mailing list. More information on the list is available: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mailman/listinfo/publishing-dtd. If you are interested in making a new version of the DTD, please see the Archiving and Interchange DTD Suite site for information about creating a new DTD from the Suite of DTD modules. Any suggestions for changes to the Tagset or documentation should be made through the Journal Article Tag Set Comment Form at the Mulberry Technolgies site. Coding ExamplesExamples of tables and citations using the Journal Publishing DTD are provided in this section. The citation examples illustrate fully tagged National Library of Medicine citations. The table examples demonstrate a wide array of style-compliant tables. ToolsNLM has created an XSL transform to HTML for previewing content in the Archiving and Interchange DTD and a Cascading Style Sheet to support it. Commercial Tools that have been written for the DTDs are also available on the Tools page. Related DTDsThis DTD was constructed using the modules in the Archiving and Interchange DTD Suite. 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. XML InformationLinks to general information on XML, XSLT, Unicode™, and XLink are available on the XML Resources page. |
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