Hi all,
I thought the latest news from the KBART working group would be of
interest to the list - another eight publishers have publicly endorsed
the Phase I recommendations. Full details on UKSG's website: http://bit.ly/mRKr3p
.
All the best,
Charlie.
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UKSG and NISO Announce Eight More Publishers Endorse KBART
Support and Demand for KBART Increasing Within Knowledge Community
13 June 2011 – UKSG and The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) are pleased to announce that another eight
publishers are now able to supply metadata that conforms to the
recommended practice, KBART: Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (NISO
RP-9-2010). Endorsement of this publication, which contains practical
recommendations for the timely exchange of accurate metadata between
content providers and knowledge base developers, indicates that the
format and content of data supplied by the publisher to knowledge
bases and related tools conform to the KBART recommendations.
The newest endorsers are:
o American Geophysical Union
o BioScientifica, representing:
- The European Society for Endocrinology
- The Society for Endocrinology
- The Society for Reproduction and Fertility
o Cambridge University Press
o Credo Reference
o Emerald Group Publishing
o IEEE
“BioScientifica manages significant amounts of data on behalf of the
growing number of societies to whom we provide publishing services,”
says Kathryn Spiller, Assistant Director of Publishing Services at
BioScientifica. “KBART’s practical guidelines were easy to implement,
and fit with our aim to provide best-of-breed support to all
participants in the scholarly information supply chain.”
“We continue to invite all publishers and vendors to publicly endorse
KBART’s recommendations,” says Sarah Pearson, co-chair of the working
group. “They are simple to adopt, and with mounting awareness among
librarians, KBART endorsement is beginning to be a differentiator when
making platform and content decisions.”
To learn about how your organization can endorse KBART, and for more
information on its Phase II activities, visit www.uksg.org/kbart or www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart
.
About KBART
KBART (Knowledge Bases And Related Tools) was set up following the
2007 publication of the UKSG research report "Link Resolvers and the
Serials Supply Chain." Central to the efficient operation of the
OpenURL is the knowledge base, which consists of data supplied by
content providers including publishers. The report found that a lack
of awareness of the OpenURLs capabilities and requirements is
impacting the quality and timeliness of data provided to populate
knowledge bases, and thus undermining the potential of the
sophisticated OpenURL technology. UKSG partnered with NISO to
commission the KBART Working Group to develop guidelines for best
practice and provide educational materials. The core NISO/UKSG Working
Group consists of representatives from libraries, knowledge base
developers, publishers, intermediaries and other content providers,
and is supported by a monitoring group of interested parties. Its
Phase I report, KBART: Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (NISO
RP-9-2010), and guidelines have been widely reviewed and tested by a
wider group of information supply chain stakeholders. For more
information, visit www.uksg.org/kbart or www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart.
About NISO
NISO fosters the development and maintenance of standards that
facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective
interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in
research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages
libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other
organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through
the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge.
NISO works with intersecting communities of interest and across the
entire lifecycle of an information standard. NISO is a not-for-profit
association accredited by the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI). More information about NISO is available on its website: www.niso.org
. For more information please contact NISO at (301) 654-2512 or via e-
mail at [log in to unmask]
About UKSG
UKSG exists to connect the information community and encourage the
exchange of ideas on scholarly communication. It spans the wide range
of interests and activities of the extended scholarly information
community of librarians, publishers, intermediaries and technology
vendors. In a dynamic environment, UKSG works to:
• facilitate community integration, networking, discussion and
exchange of ideas,
• improve members' knowledge of the scholarly information sector and
support skills development,
• stimulate research and collaborative initiatives, encourage
innovation and promote standards for good practice, and
• disseminate news, information and publications, and raise awareness
of services that support the scholarly information sector.
For more information, please visit the UKSG website, www.uksg.org.
lis-e-resources is a UKSG list - http://www.uksg.org/serials
UKSG groups also available on Facebook and LinkedIn
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