The Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS), published on 22 August 2012 as ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite (version 1.0), is the successor to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) DTD. It is de facto standard for the XML markup of scholarly journal articles that is widely used by many academic publishers within their routine publication workflows, and also used as the ingest format for PubMed Central. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the key enabling technology for the Semantic Web, also know as the web of linked data. By defining statements about entities and their relationships in RDF syntax using publicly available ontologies, such statements can be combined into interconnected information networks (RDF graphs) in which the truth content of each original statement is maintained, thereby creating a web of linked data, the Semantic Web. The SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies are a suite of complementary and orthogonal OWL 2 DL ontologies. They were created to permit RDF descriptions of bibliographic entities, citations, reference collections and library catalogues, the structural and rhetorical component parts of documents, and roles, statuses and workflows in publishing. This paper describes JATS2RDF v1.0 (http://purl.org/spar/jats2rdf/), a mapping of the principle metadata components of the ANSI/NISO JATS Journal Publishing Tag Library Version 1.0 from XML to RDF. Our 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. By means of an Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) transform that we have also created (http://purl.org/spar/jats2rdf/xslt), this JATS2RDF mapping now permit the JATS metadata elements and their attributes, from documents marked up in XML using the NISO-JATS Journal Publishing Tag Library v1.0, to be converted automatically to RDF, enabling this information to be published to the Semantic Web as linked open data in a manner that is unambiguous and universally understood. We hope 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.
From Markup to Linked Data: Mapping NISO JATS v1.0 to RDF using the SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies
PERONI, SILVIO;
2012
Abstract
The Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS), published on 22 August 2012 as ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite (version 1.0), is the successor to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) DTD. It is de facto standard for the XML markup of scholarly journal articles that is widely used by many academic publishers within their routine publication workflows, and also used as the ingest format for PubMed Central. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the key enabling technology for the Semantic Web, also know as the web of linked data. By defining statements about entities and their relationships in RDF syntax using publicly available ontologies, such statements can be combined into interconnected information networks (RDF graphs) in which the truth content of each original statement is maintained, thereby creating a web of linked data, the Semantic Web. The SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies are a suite of complementary and orthogonal OWL 2 DL ontologies. They were created to permit RDF descriptions of bibliographic entities, citations, reference collections and library catalogues, the structural and rhetorical component parts of documents, and roles, statuses and workflows in publishing. This paper describes JATS2RDF v1.0 (http://purl.org/spar/jats2rdf/), a mapping of the principle metadata components of the ANSI/NISO JATS Journal Publishing Tag Library Version 1.0 from XML to RDF. Our 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. By means of an Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) transform that we have also created (http://purl.org/spar/jats2rdf/xslt), this JATS2RDF mapping now permit the JATS metadata elements and their attributes, from documents marked up in XML using the NISO-JATS Journal Publishing Tag Library v1.0, to be converted automatically to RDF, enabling this information to be published to the Semantic Web as linked open data in a manner that is unambiguous and universally understood. We hope 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.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
