Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata

PRISM is an IDEAlliance Specification that defines an XML metadata fields and controlled vocabularies for managing, aggregating, and delivering publishing content for magazines,  journals and more. . .

The PRISM Working Group initiated its work in 1999, released PRISM 1.0 in 2001 and addressed publishing across media platforms by releasing PRISM 2.0 in 2008.  Today PRISM Specifications serve as the foundation for two XML Tagging Schemas:

• PRISM Aggregator Message: An XML tag set developed in 2004, designed to package articles for delivery to content aggregators.  PAM is built on PRISM metadata fields and XHTML for encoding text. 
• nextPub XML Content Source: An XML tag set developed in 2011, designed to encode a wide variety of content, from articles, to advertisements to the chapters of books.  nextPub is built upon PRISM 3.0 metadata and HTML5 for encoding text and rich media content.

►Link to Complete PRISM 3.0 2011 Draft Specifications  NEW!

►Link to PRISM 3.0 Draft Metadata Specifications NEW!

►Link to PRISM 3.0 Draft Controlled Vocabulary Specifications NEW!

►Link to PRISM 3.0 Guides NEW!

►Link to PAM 2.2 Draft Specifications NEW!

►Link to nextPub Draft Specifications built on PRISM NEW!

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►Link to PRISM 2.1 2010 Specifications

►►►►►Webinar: "Overview of the PRISM Recipe Specification"

►►►►Slides from "Overview of the PRISM Recipe Specification"