The NISO KBART Automation Working Group: Modernizing Knowledgebase Communications

Abstract

The NISO KBART Automation Recommended Practice supplies instructions to content providers for automatic, behind-the-scenes transfer of library-specific subscriptions from a content provider to a knowledgebase vendor. These extensions of the well-established KBART (Knowledge Bases And Related Tools) Recommended Practice, NISO RP-9-2014, are anticipated to move knowledgebase configuration activities, which are painstaking and time-consuming for library staff, to automatic programs that can update the settings in a matter of minutes. This increase in data accuracy will result in improved electronic product access services to end users and better information available to libraries for their own collection management activities.

Keywords:

• content providers
• electronic holdings
• KBART
• knowledgebases
• link resolvers
• metadata
• NISO
• subscriptions
• recommended practice