On 9/29/10 4:46 PM, "Wendell Piez" <wapiez@mulberrytech.com> wrote:
So a journal publisher may start with NLM as an interchange format for materials submitting to Pubmed Central. But then they discover that investments made there can pay off further back in the document workflow. There are already some early movers using NLM variants behind production systems (some of them not small). This means there is opportunity for editing applications in this space, if not for much authoring as such (conversion vendors and applications will still have a role as long as word processors don't go away), then at least for copy editing and document QA.
While in comparison to, say, DITA (which serves the needs of a different sort of document production), the uptake of the NLM JATS ("Journal Article Tag Set") will be slow, there's also no reason to think it won't also be steady and, eventually, strong.
Not if I have anything to do with it :-) That is, I would much rather define a STM vocabulary set for DITA that includes OOTB to-NLM transforms than encourage any of my clients to author in NLM directly. Just saying. Cheers, E. -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 512.554.9368 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com