NISO and UKSG Announce Five More Publishers Endorse KBART Cynthia Hodgson 03 Oct 2012 14:35 UTC
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), 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. Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information Standards Organization chodgson@niso.org 301-654-2512 *********************************************** * You are subscribed to the SERIALST listserv (Serials in Libraries discussion forum) * Have questions or need help? Contact: SERIALST-REQUEST@LIST.UVM.EDU * For additional information, see the SERIALST Scope, Purpose and Usage Guidelines <http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/serialst.html> ***********************************************