1. KBART Update
KRISTEN WILSON, NCSU LIBRARIES
ALA – NISO ANNUAL UPDATE
JUNE 28, 2015

2. What is KBART?
Knowledge Bases And Related Tools
A recommended practice to improve the supply of metadata from
publishers to knowledge bases
Phase 1
◦ Completed in 2010
◦ Main focus on serials
Phase 2
◦ Completed in 2014
◦ Build on Phase 1 to accommodate ebooks, OA, consortial holdings

3. KBART standing committee
◦ Magaly Bascones, JISC Collections, co-chair
◦ Benjamin Johnson, ProQuest, co-chair
◦ Laird Barrett, Taylor & Francis
◦ Dominic Benson, Brunel University London
◦ Bill Brembeck, OCLC
◦ Nadia Casagranda, Kings College London
◦ Nettie Lagace, NISO
◦ Noah Levin, Springer
◦ Kathy Marcaccio, Cengage Learning
◦ Sheri Meares, EBSCO
◦ Gary Pollock, Cengage Learning
◦ Christine Stohn, Ex Libris
◦ Marlene Van Ballegooie, University of Toronto
◦ Kristen Wilson, North Carolina State University
◦ Julie Zhu, IEEE

4. What is a knowledge base?
A database of electronic resources information
Contains information about global holdings
◦ Packages (e.g., JSTOR Arts and Sciences I, Elsevier Freedom Collection)
◦ Titles (e.g., Anthropological Review, Tetrahedron)
◦ Package + Title = Holding
Contains information about what holdings a library provides access to

5. Kb example

6. What does a kb do?
Tracks a library’s e-resources content
Supports OpenURL linking to an appropriate copy
Supports discovery through unified search indexes and MARC records
services
Supports electronic resources management

7. The problem
If the holdings information in the knowledge base is wrong, it impacts
all of the systems relying on it
Common data problems include
◦ Incorrect identifiers (ISSNs and ISBNs)
◦ Incorrect dates
◦ Outdated information about which
titles are in which packages

8. How can KBART help?
Establish best practice guidelines for data formatting and delivery
Provide educational materials and events
Provide endorsements and registry

9. Phase 1: A simple data
exchange format

10. Phase 2: New fields

11. Educational materials
Recommended practice:
http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/rp-9-2014/
Simplified style guide in progress

12. KBART endorsement
1. Provider submits file to working group
2. Format and content are reviewed, recommendations made and
implemented
3. Provider makes data publicly available
4. Endorsed!

13. KBART registry
https://sites.google.com/site/kbartregistry/

14. Current priorities
Develop materials to make it easier to implement KBART
Solicit more endorsements and get new providers added to the registry
Re-endorse providers for Phase II
Thinking about future directions

15. Charleston pre-conference
Deep Dive into KBART
Wednesday, Nov. 4
1-4 p.m.
Details are online at
http://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/preconferences

16. For more information…
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart/
kristen_wilson@ncsu.edu