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'''Open Scripture Information Standard''' ('''OSIS''') is an [[XML]] application (or [[XML schema|schema]]), that defines tags for [[markup|marking up]] Bibles, theological commentaries, and other related literature.

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'''Open Scripture Information Standard''' ('''OSIS''') is an [[XML]] application (or [[XML schema|schema]]), that defines tags for [[markupMarkup language|marking up]] Bibles, theological commentaries, and other related literature.

The OSIS schema was developed by the Bible Technologies Group, a joint committee sponsored by the [[American Bible Society]] and the [[Society of Biblical Literature]]. Other participants in the standards work are the United Bible Societies, the [[SIL International|Summer Institute of Linguistics]], and various national Bible societies, along with individual expert volunteers. As of mid-2005, the current version is 2.1.

== Description ==

The schema is very similar to that of the [[Text Encoding Initiative]], though on the one hand much simpler (by omission of many unneeded constructs), and on the other hand adding much more detailed [[metadata]], and a formal canonical reference system to identify books, chapters, verses, and particular locations within verses.

The metadata includes a "work declaration" for the work itself, and for each work it references. A work declaration provides basic catalog information based on the [[Dublin Core]] standard, and assigns a local short name for the work (similar to [[XML namespace]] declarations).

=== Significant Features ===

OSIS gives particular attention to encoding [[overlapping markup]], because Bibles exhibit such markup frequently, for example verses crossing paragraph boundaries and vice versa. The OSIS schema introduced a method for encoding overlap in XML, known as [[Trojan milestones]], or "Clix", on which see these papers in Proceedings of the 2004 and 2005 Extreme Markup Conferences:

OSIS gives particular attention to encoding [[overlapping markup]], because Bibles exhibit such markup frequently, for example verses crossing paragraph boundaries and vice versa. The OSIS schema introduced a method for encoding overlap in XML, known as [[Trojan milestones]], or "Clix".<ref name=DeRose2004>Steven DeRose, ''[http://xml.coverpages.org/DeRoseEML2004.pdf Markup Overlap: A Review and a Horse],'' Proceedings of the Extreme Markup (2004)</ref><ref>Syd Bauman, ''[http://conferences.idealliance.org/extreme/html/2005/Bauman01/EML2005Bauman01.html TEI HORSEing Around],'' {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811095839/http://conferences.idealliance.org/extreme/html/2005/Bauman01/EML2005Bauman01.html |date=2016-08-11 }} Proceedings of the Extreme Markup (2005), (http://en.scientificcommons.org/43599936 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091219162546/http://en.scientificcommons.org/43599936 |date=2009-12-19 }} Abstract)</ref>

*http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Proceedings/html/2004/DeRose01/EML2004DeRose01.html and

*http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Proceedings/html/2005/Bauman01/EML2005Bauman01.html

== Development ==

The OSIS schema was developed by the Bible Technologies Group, a joint committee sponsored by the [[American Bible Society]] and the [[Society of Biblical Literature]]. Other participants in the standards work are the [[United Bible Societies]], the [[SIL International|Summer Institute of Linguistics]], and various national Bible societies, along with individual expert volunteers. As of mid-2005, the current version is 2.1.

The officers include [[Steven DeRose]] (chair), [[Kees DeBlois]] (vice-chair), and Patrick Durusau (editor). As of mid-2006, the current version is 2.1.1.

== See also ==

* [[Theological Markup Language|Theological Markup Language (ThML)]]

* [[Go Bible]] – application for Java mobile phones

* [[The SWORD Project]] -– a [[Bible software]] platform that supports the OSIS standard

* [[:de:Zefania XML|Zefania XML Bible Markup Language]] &ndash; ''German''

==References==

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== External links ==

* [httphttps://wwwcrosswire.bibletechnologies.netorg/osis/ The OSIS Website]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120226061942/http://img.forministry.com/7/7B/7BB51FB8-84B3-4FF3-939ED473FA90A632/DOC/OSIS2_1UserManual_06March2006_-_with_O'Donnell_edits.PDF OSIS User Manual, OSIS Schema 2.1.1, 2006]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060404221635/http://gobible.jolon.org/ GoBibleGo Bible] &ndash; electronic Bible application for [[mobile phone]]s created using OSIS and ThML[[Theological Markup Language]]

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