[WEB4LIB] DTD for journal articles?

[Eric Hellman]

Openly Informatics released its eFirst XML DTD for free licensing 
last year. The design philosophy was to produce a clean-slate DTD 
optimized for an internet journal instead of producing a port of a 
print SGML DTD. We also released  XSL stylesheets for this DTD, along 
with Framemaker+SGML EDD's and templates.

We've production tested this DTD on over 150 published articles.

We've integrated citations marked according to this DTD into our 
Link.Openly software as well.

The URL is http://www.openly.com/efirst/


At 7:35 AM -0800 1/29/00, Thomas Dowling wrote:
>Is there (or is anyone working on) a standard XML DTD for scholarly journal
>articles?  My particular interest is in markup for the citation and
>abstract, but I'd also be interested in DTDs that provide for full text.
>
>I ask because the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center currently incorporates
>journals from large commercial publishers, all of whom have their own
>in-house DTDs (usually SGML, and usually restricted to their own journals by
>copyright or license agreements).  We have started talking with some smaller
>publishers that put out only one or two titles each, and some of them are
>looking for guidance on how to mark up their data.  We could put together a
>DTD that meets our purposes, but I don't want to duplicate someone else's
>efforts if they're creating an open standard.
>
>BTW, regarding open source: given how the field of bibliographic management
>software is gravitating toward an ISI monopoly, I think a really slick open
>source citation manager--perhaps using a family of DTDs like the one I'm
>looking for here--would have a relatively easy path toward acceptance and
>adoption.
>
>
>Thomas Dowling
>Ohio Library and Information Network
>tdowling at ohiolink.edu

Eric Hellman
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