Please find attached news from NISO and UKSG regarding KBART endorsements. 

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

NISO and UKSG Announce Five More Publishers Endorse KBART

 

Metadata in Open URL knowledge bases improved through implementation of
KBART recommendations

October 3rd, 2012 - The National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
and the UKSG are pleased to announce that BioOne, JSTOR, LOCKSS, the Royal
Society of Chemistry and SpringerLink (hosted by Metapress) are the most
recent organizations to publicly endorse the Phase I recommendations of the
KBART (Knowledge Bases And Related Tools) Working Group, a joint NISO/UKSG
initiative that is exploring data problems within the OpenURL supply chain.
KBART's Phase I Recommended Practice (NISO RP-9-2010
<http://www.niso.org/publications/rp> ), published in January 2010, contains
practical recommendations for the timely exchange of accurate metadata
between content providers and knowledge base developers.

All content providers, from major databases to small publishers, are
encouraged to publicly endorse the KBART Recommended Practice by submitting
a sample file to the KBART working group. Once the file's format and content
has been reviewed and approved, and the provider has made it publicly
available (in line with the recommendations), the provider will be added to
a public list of endorsing providers. Knowledge base developers can endorse
the KBART Recommended Practice by confirming that their systems can process
KBART formatted files. In addition, a contacts registry is available on the
KBART Information Hub at http://www.uksg.org/kbart or
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart where content providers and knowledge
base developers can register their organization's information for
downloading holdings metadata. 

Sarah Price, KBART Co-chair and E-Resources & Serials Coordinator at the
University of Birmingham, comments: "It's really encouraging from both a
KBART and library perspective to see the uptake of the KBART recommendations
from content providers. It demonstrates the commitment to improving metadata
to aid discovery which in turn will benefit the whole community through
increased usage, ease of discovery and user satisfaction."

The KBART working group is now progressing towards the end of Phase II and
is focusing on enhancing the current recommendations with new guidelines for
eBook, consortia and Open Access metadata:

KBART Co-chair Andreas Biedenbach, Independent Publishing Professional,
concludes, "I am very pleased with the interest we have raised for our
working group. It is encouraging that we find more and more organizations
endorsing our recommendations and that we were able to add these renowned
companies to our endorsement list this month. We look forward to
collaborating with further parties involved in the e-resource metadata
management in the near future and to the upcoming tasks in connection with
our Phase II work."

For more information on endorsement, to review the KBART Recommended
Practice, or to find out how to get involved in future phases of KBART's
work, please visit http://www.uksg.org/kbart or
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart.

 

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.

 

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
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Tracy Gardner

UKSG Associate

 

 

 


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