Nettie Lagace (NISO) presentation at NISO Update, ALA Midwinter 2018, Denver CO

1. KBART Standing Committee
and
KBART Automation Working Group
Nettie Lagace
NISO

2. KBART Standing Committee
Manage KBART (NISO RP-9-2014, KBART:
Knowledge Bases and Related Tools
Recommended Practice)
• Understand landscape and stakeholders
• Educate
• Support
• Maintain KBART registry and adoption materials
• Determine next steps for future updates (as
applicable)

3. KBART automation group
Goal:
To create a NISO Recommended Practice to
support the automation of the transfer of KBART
lists, including
– Optimization of the KBART format for automation
– Definition for the automation processes for title lists for example with
a recommended protocol/API
– Definition of automation processes for transfer of institutional
entitlement/access lists

4. Institution
Title lists, packages
Content
providers
Article (and other)
metadata and full text
Holdings
KnowledgeBase
Linkresolver
Discovery
Databases
Websites
Full text
(appropriate
copy)
Different
users,
different
entry points
Direct links
OpenURLs
The Discovery to Delivery Landscape
Entitlement/
access lists

5. KBART Automation
• To facilitate the delivery of KBART files customized to
institutional holdings (including content an institution is
entitled to access contractually as well as content that
may be accessible for other reasons-e.g., open access).
• Automatic holdings reports can significantly reduce the
e-resource management workload for all stakeholders,
provide more reliable access to content for end users,
and contribute to increased usage for the benefit of all

6. Workplan proposal
• Analysis of current landscape
• A specification for an API for automated report
harvesting (paths/structure/configs)
• A NISO Recommended Practice that describes the API
specification and its intended use.
– Draft for public comment (and testing?) this spring
• A series of use cases that should be supported
• Prototypes
• Market education
• A list of proposed modifications to KBART to be
considered by the main KBART standing committee

7. KBART Standing Committee - Roster
• Magaly Bascones (co-chair)
Jisc
• Dominic Benson
Brunel University London
• Benjamin Bober
ABES (Agence Bibliographique de
l'Enseignement Supérieur)
• Courtney Collins
University of Waterloo Library
• Jeffrey Daniels
Grand Valley State University Libraries
• Jason Friedman
The Canadian Research Knowledge
Network
• Robert Heaton
Utah State University Libraries
• Bettina Huhn
OCLC Online Computer Library Center
• Benjamin Johnson
ProQuest
• Noah Levin
Springer Nature
• Kathy Marcaccio (co-chair)
Cengage Learning
• Sheri Meares
EBSCO Information Services
• Robert Heaton
Utah State University Libraries
• Jonathan Ponder
ITHAKA/JSTOR/Portico
• Andrée Rathemacher
University of Rhode Island
• Christine Stohn
Ex Libris/Proquest

8. KBART automation group - Roster
Stephanie Doellinger (Co-chair)
OCLC Online Computer Library Center
Oliver Pesch (Co-chair)
EBSCO Information Services
Lisa Gonzalez
Private Academic Library Network of
Indiana (PALNI)
Rena Grossman
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Derrik Hiatt
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Benjamin Johnson
ProQuest
Noah Levin
Springer
Jozef Paulik
Elsevier
Jason Price
SCELC Consortium
Charlie Remy
University of Tennessee Chattanooga
Christine Stohn
Ex Libris, Inc.
Peter Vlahakis
ITHAKA/JSTOR/Portico
Abigail Wickes
Oxford University Press
Dongqing Xie
ITHAKA/JSTOR/Portico
Julie Zhu
IEEE

9. Thank you
nlagace@niso.org