From: Tracy Gardner <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 09:45:52 +0100
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), 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
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