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OSIS is the Open Scripture Information Standard. OSIS is an [[XML]] application (or [[schema]]), that defines tags for [[markup|marking up|markup]] 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 Summer Institute of Linguistics, and various national Bible societies, along with individual expert volunteers. As of mid-2005, the current version is 2.1.

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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).

OSIS gives particular attention to encoding [[markupoverlapping overlapmarkup]], 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: http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Proceedings/html/2004/DeRose01/EML2004DeRose01.html and http://dev.stg.brown.edu/staff/Syd_Bauman/papers/EML2005Baum1020.html

The OSIS specification can be found at http://www.bibletechnologies.org