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Medical Library Proposes New Standards to Ease Exchanging and Archiving of Journal Articles - SCOTT CARLSON, the Chronicle

The National Library of Medicine has created a set of standards for publishing online journal articles in hopes of simplifying the process for publishing, transferring, and archiving scholarly information. The library's model, announced on Tuesday, includes formats for creating journal articles and for archiving and exchanging articles. The formats -- called Document Type Definitions, or DTD's -- identify and encode various elements of an article, like a quotation, a bibliographic reference, or the start of a paragraph. By adopting those formats, scholars, librarians, and journal publishers could more easily transfer the files to different types of archives, or recreate the articles in new journals. The library's new formats are based in XML, a Web-programming language.

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