FYI – this press release about additional KBART
endorsements was sent out on Monday.
Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: hodgsonca@xxxxxxxxxxx
Phone: 301-654-2512
UKSG and NISO Announce Eight More Publishers Endorse KBART
Support and Demand for KBART Increasing Within Knowledge Community
June
13, 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:
·
American
Geophysical Union
·
BioScientifica,
representing:
-
The European Society for
Endocrinology
-
The Society for Endocrinology
-
The Society for Reproduction and
Fertility
·
Cambridge
University Press
·
Credo
Reference
·
Emerald
Group Publishing
·
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 nisohq@xxxxxxxx.
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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