UKSG and NISO Announce Eight More Publishers Endorse KBART

["Cynthia Hodgson" <chodgson@niso.org>]

UKSG and NISO Announce Eight More Publishers Endorse KBART 
Support and Demand for KBART Increasing Within Knowledge 
Community

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.

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