Describe any experience/capacity you have in managing the conversion of files to structured XML and highlight any experience you have in validating documents converted to an XML standard.
Manuscripts is a scholarly word processing environment that uniquely offers a fully offline, desktop-based experience in addition to online editing and annotating. The product is follow-up to the award winning Papers reference manager from a team with a track record of building high-end scholarly software for millions of academics. They offer a deep understanding of authoring and publishing workflows and relevant technologies for both web and offline uses. Manuscripts interoperates with DOCX, HTML, Markdown and JATS XML amongst 10+ other formats, and is prepared to offer its structured document editing and conversion technologies under an open source license.
Authorea focuses on research document conversion and creation. Authorea has experience with every mainstream format for academic writing and supports many combinations of import-to-export flows. This includes converting and exporting directly into a JATS-compliant XML. The conversion process is automated upon importing or submitting a document, while the core service allows edits to be made easily by editors, typesetters, and authors. Authorea has deep experience with relevant technologies (JATS/HTML5/ePub/Pandoc).
Other organizations named in this proposal to support conversion tools likewise have substantial relevant experience. We will convene a yearly meeting with expert groups, and others with relevant interests, to identify a meta-roadmap of shared interests in open tools for conversion services. Also, we included budget to support community developers for tasks that will support the GB’s requirements. The following community partners will play key roles:

- Collaborative Knowledge Foundation builds open source solutions for improving how knowledge is created, produced, and reported. For example, INK Framework converts content and data across formats such as Word, HTML5, XML, and ePub. The team has extensive experience in publishing and open tools.
- Pandoc is a universal document converter across many formats, and is the most mature open library in this space. The project is maintained by John MacFarlane.
- Lee Giles’s lab at Penn State has very successful projects such as CiteSeerx and can support both conversion and screening efforts.