Description
Changes Between Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) NISO/JATS 1.2 and JATS 1.3 (in Response to Comments on NISO Z39.96-2019 (JATS 1.2) through December 2020)
June 2021
The ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2021: JATS 1.3 version is the latest ANSI/NISO standard JATS. This JATS 1.3 version is fully backward compatible with JATS 1.0 (2012), JATS 1.1 (2015), and JATS 1.2 (2019). Any document valid to JATS 1.0, 1.1, or 1.2 will be valid to the JATS 1.3 version of the same JATS Tag Set.
Changes to JATS 1.2 to produce JATS 1.3 were made in response to user comments on the previous versions, through a series of Committee Drafts (JATS 1.3d1 and JATS 1.3d2). These are incremental changes, adding new functionality such as Questions and Answers (borrowed from BITS) or more detailed descriptions of awards. A new category of element was added, to hold processing metadata that might previously have been recorded in processing instructions.
