The Long Road to JATS Paul Donohoe Senior XML Developer Jenny
Sherman XML Developer Ashwin Mistry - XML Developer Macmillan
Science and Education
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In the beginning over half a million articles (increased to a
million by the time the project started) 143 journals (increased to
180) three in-house DTDs five typesetters numerous workflows and
production systems teams based across the world
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Mapping process
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Mapping to JATS the value of examining the content Example date
element 19991125 Feasibility report mapping Content-based mapping
Nothing. Used for only 10 articles in one supplement.
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Standardization to JATS List type mapping from JATS to AJ or
NPG AJJATSNPG Numbers1 2 3 Numbers with parens1) 2) 3) Lettersa b c
Letters with parensa) b) c) Uppercase lettersA B C Roman numeralsi
ii iii Roman numerals with parensi) ii) iii) Uppercase Roman
numeralsI II III Bullets
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Program kickoff
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External customers
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Internal customers
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Existing workflow StagingLive
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Existing to final desired workflow StagingLive Content Hub
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Suggested interim workflow StagingLive Staging
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Current hybrid workflow Staging Live
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Opportunities
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Scrum Development Process
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(Re)Write a test Does the test fail? (Re)Write production code
Run all tests Clean up code Test Succeeds Test Fails Tests Fail All
Tests Succeed Repeat Test Driven Development
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Unit Testing
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XMLUnit
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MarkLogic Content Ingestion Service Content Hub API Asset
Service Triple- store Content Gateway MongoDB Transformation
Service Validation Service FTP Hot Folder New Publishing Platform
incl Article Rendering Search Product Set Up tool MySQL Content
Work Flow Tool File System Ontologies Content Hub Architecture
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Core Ontology
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The Big Picture
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New Publishing Platform
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New Search old searchnew search
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Other benefits Marketing site launch reduced from two months to
two weeks Full journal launch reduced from eight months to four
months
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Continuous Modelling
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Four DTDs
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Next Steps Single environment publishing Data sends for third
parties Archive conversion
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Lessons Learned Dont start from here! Do not rely on DTD to DTD
mappings Make use of an XML database to establish actual content
markup Agile development methodology for tool development and do it
properly
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Lessons Learned (2) JATS is the best journal article DTD we
know!
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Systems, Science and Scholarly Macmillan Science and Education
Transforming Learning and Discovery The Macmillan Campus, 4 Crinan
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