UKSG and NISO announce 30 new KBART publishers

[Charlie Rapple <charlie.rapple@tbicommunications.com>]

Dear colleagues,

I thought you might be interested in the following news from UKSG 
and NISO - another 30 publishers have endorsed the KBART 
recommended practice, which contains practical guidance for the 
timely exchange of metadata between content providers and 
knowledge base developers. A full list of the new publishers is 
included in the press release, below and at 
http://www.uksg.org/news/kbartmar11

The announcement also confirms that Phase II of KBART's work is 
focussing on metadata for consortia, open access content, e-books 
and conference proceedings.

More information about KBART is available at www.uksg.org/kbart.

All the best,

Charlie.


Charlie Rapple
Chair of UKSG Marketing Subcommittee

TBI Communications

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NISO and UKSG Announce 30 More Publishers Endorse KBART

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

March 21, 2011 -- 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 Scitation? 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 Scitation 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/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@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.