This document discusses KBART, a NISO recommended practice for exchanging accurate journal holdings data between publishers, aggregators, and knowledge base providers. KBART aims to standardize this data exchange to ensure better access to content through link resolvers and other tools. It establishes a universally acceptable format for title level coverage data that specifies dates and volumes/issues. Adopting KBART will help address common problems with holdings lists and allow automated updating between systems. The document urges publishers, libraries and others in the scholarly content supply chain to participate in KBART and register their holdings data in the KBART Registry.

1. XXKBARTok ?K ?KNOWLEDGE BASES AND RELATED TOOLS: A NISO/UKSG RECOMMENDED PRACTICEJason Price, PhD Claremont Colleges/SCELCKBART Working Group MemberALA New Orleans6/25/2011

2. VitalsWhy – Better access through accurate holdings dataWho – Publishers, Aggregators, KB vendors, Libraries What – a universally acceptable holdings data format Where – throughout the supply chain & at the UKSG info hub http://www.uksg.org/kbartWhen – NowPhase 1 Report – Jan 2010 http://bit.ly/kbartRPEndorsement & Expansion Phase 2 -- June 2010 - How can you help?

3. Who is behind KBART? Standards organizationsUKSG and NISOThe working group members, representing:Knowledge Base vendors ExLibris, Serials Solutions, EbscoContent aggregatorsPublishersSubscription AgentsLibraries & ConsortiaFull list -- http://www.uksg.org/kbart/members

4. What is KBART? A NISO recommended practice“A set of practical recommendations for the timely exchange of accurate metadata between content providers and knowledge base developers”a universally acceptable holdings list formatExpresses title level coverage by date & volume/issueA single solution for sharing holdings data across the scholarly content supply chain

5. Why KBART?Maintenance of accurate package content coverage dataSupports openUrl Link ResolversSupports ejournal MARC record delivery servicesEnables automated updating by KB providersAddresses common holding list inadequaciesRe-use of ISSNs Embargo period ambiguitiesInconsistent date/enumeration formats

6. Where does KBART apply?

7. A simple metadata exchange format…

8. age of datadate granularity (day, month, season, year)file format format definitions;shoe-horningvol/issue vs datefrequencyinformal structureaccuracyformatunclear responsibilitieslink syntax and granularityincentiveaccuracyData & transferDate coverageownershipduplication of efforttitle mappingcontacts/feedback mechanismsSupply chainTitle relationsISSN/ISBN variationsabbreviationsLicensingCompliancetitle changesaccuracyre-use of ISSNformateffect on licensingfree contentpackage variationsgenericism/granularitymisrepresentationRepresenting years of thinking…Knowledge bases

9. The Registry -- a growing contact and metadata content clearinghouseRegistry shortcut:http://bit.ly/kbartregistry

10. Publisher Partnerships

11. KBART Registry http://bit.ly/kbartregistryLink Resolver ProvidersClarIDYEBSCO Information ServicesEx LibrisInnovative InterfacesOCLC(reSearcher)Serials Solutions(Swets)(TDNet)Content Providers(CengageLearning / Gale)(EBSCO Publishing)(Ingenta Connect)(LOCKSS)Journal publishersAmerican Geophysical UnionAmerican Institute of PhysicsAnnual ReviewsBioScientificaCambridge Journals OnlineEdinburgh University PressEmerald Group Publishing LimitedIEEERoyal Society Publishing(Springer Science and Business Media)

13. What do publishers need to do to adopt the KBART best practices?Review the requirements that are accessible via http://www.uksg.org/kbart/s5/transition.Format ejournal and ebook content availability data to meet the requirements.Self check their datasheet(s) on the KBART website to ensure that they conform to the recommended practice and make any necessary correctionsEnsure that they have a process in place for regular data exchange as outlined in section 5.2 of the KBART report.Register their organization on the KBART registry website, providing a link to download the newly KBART formatted dataset(s) http://bit.ly/kbartregistry

14. Our vision…after KBARTPhase 1 – Universally accepted standardized publisher metadata, regularly distributed AND available on demandPhase 2 – Broad adoption, More content type coveragePhase 3? – KBART formatted Consortia & Institution level holdings metadata distribution based on what’s actually accessible from a particular IP(this last is more my dream)

15. How Librarians can helpLobby publishers to adopt the KBART practicesLEARN about what KBART is and what it does INSIST on ‘knowing’ what you are buying!Require delivery of a usable holdings list before you payInitially & annually going forwardWhen the list is inadequate, point them to KBARTOnly your insistence will make it happenENABLE publisher sales staff to make the case to their companyFOLLOW UP with continued requests as necessary