Roadmap

bitmark grows in the open. What the reference parser does today is the standard; proposals are worked out by the association's working groups and become standard once two independent implementations support them.

In the parser today

• Toggle tags — styles switched on and off inside the text.
• JSONL — one bit per line, the format for APIs and agents.
• The Rosetta Map — NISO STS import that keeps every ID, anchor and link.
• Alias and diff books — the same content under other properties, or only what changes.

Proposed

• The bit passport — one header for rights, AI use and accessibility of every bit in a delivery. It is the most important proposal: it is how a publisher says once, for a whole delivery, what readers and AI may do with it.
• Versions and updates — a hash and a date per bit, so readers refetch only what changed.

Planned

• Export back to NISO STS — a complete NISO STS document written from the bits.
• Docs for agents — llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every page.
• A toggle for hints — the last part of the legacy inline form.

Taking part

A proposal starts in the public bitmark-improvement-proposals repository; see how the standard changes. Anyone can join a working group through the bitmark Association.