Dear all,
Here's the latest news on activities and progress of the KBART working
group. Please do not hesitate to contact me or Peter (McCracken) with any
questions.
Publicity
Peter and Charlie have spoken at several events recently, including UKSG,
NASIG, and ALA. In all cases, audiences have been very enthusiastic about
the group's activities and have contributed a great deal of their own
experience to our ongoing work. We have several new members of the
monitoring group following these presentations, so welcome to all those who
are receiving a KBART update for the first time. Visit the UKSG session
report to get a sense of the nature of these presentations and to review
slides:
http://allmyeye.blogspot.com/2008/04/kbart-improving-efficiency-of-openurl.h
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Proposals have also been submitted for KBART sessions at the Charleston
Conference (US, November), Online Information (UK, December), ACRL (US,
March), UKSG (UK, April).
Progress
Several of the simpler sections of the report have already been drafted -
these cover various recommendations that required no detailed discussion,
and the division of the various problems we are addressing into 6 core
categories: title relations, date coverage, data & transfer, supply chain,
compliance, licensing. We have set up six smaller groups within KBART to
work on one each of these categories. They are articulating the problems
within that category and working out potential solutions, which will be
reviewed and approved (following revision, if necessary) by the broader
group. These solutions will form the basis of the KBART guidelines, and we
hope to be announcing some of them within the next quarter. To give you a
flavour of the discussions, some contentious issues to date include (a)
whether we expect to be able to produce a standard, and if so, how we
monitor compliance ongoing, and (b) how best to enforce improvements to
accuracy of metadata.
Web presence
The NISO site is now up at http://www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart
The UKSG site at www.uksg.org/kbart has been updated with some of the
outputs of the group's work so far, including a glossary of commonly-used
terms, a list of the group's members, and an archive of public updates to
date.
Miscellany
The KBART logo should be ready for public launch within the next few weeks.
Many thanks for your continued interest in KBART - please do let us know if
you have any questions:
Charlie Rapple: charlie.rapple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 44-1865-397860
Peter McCracken: peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 1-607-262-0941
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