The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) officially announced the publication of the Standards Tag Suite (STS)—an XML tag suite for the publication of standards—on 9 October 2017.
To celebrate the release of the new standard, Typefi and Inera will host a weekly webinar series on how you can best leverage STS, starting on 30 October 2017.
What is STS and why is it important?
STS is a suite of XML elements and attributes that describes the full-text content and metadata of standards.
STS builds upon JATS (Journal Article Tag Suite)—the existing, widely used standard for journal publishers—and a variant of JATS, ISOSTS, the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) version of STS created in 2011.
Bruce Rosenblum, CEO of Inera and co-chair of the NISO STS Working Group, said that the standard will positively impact the bottom line of standards publishers and their vendors.
“Investment in publishing technology is a significant cost. When companies don’t ‘speak the same language’, costs remain high and innovation is stifled,” he said.
“NISO STS allows all parties to leverage a common investment and spread costs over a larger number of organisations, which will in turn lower costs of software and services for everyone.”
Other benefits of the new standard:
- Greater interoperability between standards publishers and the standards distribution ecosystem;
- Greater ease of discovery, use and adoption of standards worldwide;
- The ability to easily publish complex standards in multiple print and digital formats;
- A sustainable way to create, publish, share, and store standards (as opposed to the widely-used but inflexible PDF).
Watch the Standardising Standards webinar series