JAMS = Journal Article Metadata Schema

Standardized method to represent scholarly metadata in JSON or YAML, focusing on authors/contributors information.

A first yaml schema is ready for documentation, community review, validation and tests. It was based on JATS4R recommendations and what orcid can provide (see requirement folder).

Objectives

Some of us got frustrated when needing to re-use an author list for different research outputs (grants, papers, datasets, software,...), other want a way to create JATSXML outputs from markdown-written documents (using pandoc), in order to allow single source publishing. This lead to this this project that wants to:

• [X] create a standard way to represent academic authors in a JSON or YAML format
• [ ] create tool to validate metadata entries
• [ ] develop pandoc, so this information will find its way in jatsxml, pdf and html outputs
• [ ] develop tools to transform author lists from one format to another.
• [ ] develop/list tools to facilitate data entries by researchers

Community

We have been working openly and collaboratively using Github and virtual meetings. We have met pretty irregularly so far, and will welcome any suggestion, feedback or help.

We do have a code of conduct and a contibuting section in this repository, but we are not using GitHub as our main communication channel. Please see https://github.com/jam-schema/jams/issues/7 to participate in our efforts.

The Initiators

We are people interested using markdown and pandoc to write manuscripts, and include contributor lists in research outputs (datasets, software, artilces). We work on different projects like GIN, pandoc-scholar, the tenzing, sciflow and papaja.

A list of contributor (maybe in the jams format) will be created relatively soon.