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'''Open Scripture Information Standard''' ('''OSIS''') is an [[XML]] application (or [[XML schema|schema]]), that defines tags for [[Markup 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. The officers include [[Steven DeRose]] (chair), [[Kees DeBlois]] (vice-chair), and [[Patrick Durusau]] (editor). As of mid-20052006, the current version is 2.1. 1.

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.

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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 [[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 seeSee these and other papers in Proceedings of the Extreme Markup and later [[Balisage]] Conferences:

*http://xml.coverpages.org/DeRoseEML2004.pdf (2004) and