[nfais-l] NISO Announcement

[Jill O'Neill]

NISO and UKSG Announce 30 More Publishers Endorse KBART

KBART Phase II Now Focusing on Consortia, Open Access and E-Books

 

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and UKSG are pleased
to announce that another 30 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 the American Psychological Association, Edinburgh
University Press and the ScitationR platform, which delivers metadata on
behalf of 28 society publishers:

 


Acoustical Society of America

ACS Rubber Division

AHS International - The Vertical Flight Society

American Accounting Association

American Association of Physicists in Medicine

American Association of Physics Teachers

American Astronomical Society

American Society of Civil Engineers

American Society of Mechanical Engineers International

AVS: Science & Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing

Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute

Environmental & Engineering Geophysical Society

International Centre for Diffraction Data

IS&T - The Society for Imaging Science & Technology

Laser Institute of America

NACE International

National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Physics Essays Publication

SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 

SPIE

The Electrochemical Society

The Institute of Noise Control Engineering

The Institution of Engineering and Technology

The Society for Information Display

The Society of Exploration Geophysicists

The Society of Rheology

The Tire Society

 

"By providing a common set of metadata requirements for the information
supply chain, KBART helps to reduce the administrative burden of metadata
management, and ensures greater visibility and usage of content," explains
Terry Hulbert, Director of Business Development at the American Institute of
Physics, which developed the ScitationR platform. "In a climate of budget
cuts and cancellations, it's an important way for our publisher partners to
support their customers and differentiate their content."

 

"The joint UKSG/NISO KBART Working Group is now focusing on Phase II of the
project, which will tackle some of the more advanced issues with knowledge
bases in the supply chain," states Sarah Pearson, co-chair of the working
group. "The Phase II recommendations will outline additional steps that can
be taken by all stakeholders to further improve the library user's
experience when using link resolvers and their related knowledge bases, and
will specifically address consortia-specific metadata transfer, open access
metadata, and enhanced support for e-books and conference proceedings."

For more information on KBART and the current Phase II work, visit
www.uksg.org/kbartor 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
<http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/#kbart>  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
orwww.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
<http://www.niso.org/> . For more information please contact NISO at (301)
654-2512 <tel:%28301%29%20654-2512>  or via e-mail at nisohq at niso.org.

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
<http://www.uksg.org/> .

 

 

 

Jill O'Neill

Director, Planning & Communication

NFAIS

(v) 215-893-1561

(email) jilloneill at nfais.org

 

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