The KBART automation work group aims to create a NISO Recommended Practice to support the automation of KBART title and entitlement lists. The work group will analyze the current landscape, specify an API for automating KBART transfers, and develop a NISO standard describing the API and use cases. The work group roster includes representatives from libraries, publishers, vendors, and consortia.

1. KBART automation work group
Christine Stohn
Ex Libris

2. 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

3. 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

4. Workplan proposal
• Analysis of current landscape
• A specification for an API
• A NISO Recommended Practice that describes the API
specification and its intended use.
• 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

5. KBART automation group - Roster
Stephanie Doellinger (Co-chair)
KBase, Central Index Section Manager,
OCLC Online Computer Library Center
Oliver Pesch (Co-chair)
Chief Product Strategist, EBSCO
Information Services
Lisa Gonzalez
KnowledgeBase and License Manager
Librarian, Private Academic Library
Network of Indiana (PALNI)
Rena Grossman
Manager, Product Data Standards &
Quality, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Derrik Hiatt
Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian,
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Benjamin Johnson
Provider Relations Engagement Manager,
ProQuest
Noah Levin
Product and Metadata Manager, Springer
Jozef Paulik
Senior Product Manager, Elsevier
Jason Price
Director of Licensing Operations, SCELC Consortium
Charlie Remy
Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian, University
of Tennessee Chattanooga
Christine Stohn
Product Manager, Ex Libris, Inc.
Peter Vlahakis
Product Manager, ITHAKA/JSTOR/Portico
Abigail Wickes
Discoverability Associate, Oxford University Press
Dongqing Xie
Systems Librarian, ITHAKA/JSTOR/Portico
Julie Zhu
Discovery Service Relations Manager, IEEE

6. Thank you
Christine.Stohn@exlibrisgroup.com