How To Build Custom Models From The Journal Archiving And Interchange DTD Suite

(2-hr advanced seminar)

Some people write document models (DTDs and schemas) from scratch, but start with a public model and modify it to match their business needs. In this two-hour seminar, we show you an easy way to make your own journal, book, or other textual publishing model starting with the Journal Archiving and Interchange DTD Suite.

The Suite is a set of modules that define element and attribute structures for the text and graphics that make up journal articles and other textual content of journals and books. It was designed and built by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) both to be the basis for several DTDs in use at NLM and to be customized (freely and without restriction) for the text publishing needs of other journal publishers and archives.

Tag sets based on the modules in the Suite have been written for journal archives, journal publishing, article authoring, archives for books and historical manuscripts, as well models used by a wide variety of journal publishers.

The seminar covers basic Suite modularization, how the parameter entities work, and best practice for organizing a DTD to use the Suite and adding your organization-specific structures. Techniques for creating a W3C XML Schema (XSD) from your customized DTD will also be discussed.

Prerequisites: Working knowledge of XML and familiarity with DTD construction.

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