<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>NISO Releases Draft KBART
Automation Recommended Practice for Public Comment</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Baltimore, MD - November 2, 2018 - The National Information
Standards Organization (NISO) seeks comments on a new draft Recommended
Practice, <i><a href="https://groups.niso.org/apps/group_public/document.php?document_id=20402">KBART Automation: Automated Retrieval of Customer Electronic Holdings</a>.</i> <a href="https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/kbart/kbart-automation">KBART Automation</a> is an enhancement to
<a href="https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/kbart/">KBART, Knowledge Bases and Related Tools</a>, the NISO initiative which provides a
format for content providers to use to transfer journal and book metadata to
link resolver knowledge bases and other library software. This new draft
recommended practice provides instructions to support automated feeds customized
to include the holdings available at a particular institution, making it much
easier for libraries to know their knowledge bases are up to date with their
current subscriptions. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">"The purpose of the KBART Automation initiative is to
facilitate the retrieval of KBART Holdings Reports, which are customized files
representing an institution’s holdings at a given time, typically maintained by
the content provider in any case," notes Oliver Pesch, Chief Product
Strategist at EBSCO Information Services and co-chair of the KBART Automation
Working Group. “Besides providing focus on specific KBART fields to be
transmitted automatically, the draft Recommended Practice describes elements of
an Application Programming Interface (API) the content provider would support
to enable interaction with the knowledge base provider."</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“KBART Automation will benefit many parties, certainly including
libraries, by reducing their workload to keep their data updated. We also
expect it will help content providers, who will see that more timely and
accurate activation of their content will result in increased usage,” adds
Stephanie Doellinger, <span style="color:black">Knowledge
base Data Ingest Section Manager</span>
at
OCLC, the other co-chair of the KBART Automation Working Group. “Working group
members are looking forward to receiving comments from the NISO community on
this draft document, which will enable us to be sure it will be complete for
publication early next year, as well as provide us with further input for
future phases of this work.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">"KBART has been one of the more successful NISO
initiatives in recent years," comments Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate
Director for Programs. "We are pleased that the NISO community members
have stepped forward to collaborate on this enhancement. The NISO KBART Standing
Committee will be considering the input from the KBART Automation Working
Group, among other information, as it moves forward to keep KBART up-to-date.
In the meantime the KBART Automation Recommended Practice will be published
separately, after the Working Group addresses the comments received.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>The NISO <i>KBART
Automation: Automated Retrieval of Customer Electronic Holdings</i> Recommended
Practice is available for public comment from November 2 to December 3, 2018.
</b>To download the draft document or submit comments, visit the NISO project page
at <a href="https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/kbart/kbart-automation">https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/kbart/kbart-automation</a>. All input
is welcome.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>About NISO</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">NISO, based in Baltimore, Maryland, fosters the development
and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent
management, and effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted
for use in research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages
libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that
support learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities
of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information standards. NISO is a
not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards
Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO website.</p></div>