KBART working group

yesterday I signed up to become a member of KBART (Knowledge Bases And Related Tools), a working group initiated by the UK Serials Group (UKSG) following its commission and publication of the report 'Link Resolvers and the Serials Supply Chain'.

the report found that a lack of awareness on the part of many publishers of the OpenURL's capabilities and requirements is impacting the quality and timeliness of data they provide to populate knowledge bases, and thus undermining the potential of this valuable technology.

the KBART working group, to be run in conjunction with the US National Information Standards Organisation (NISO), intends to develop guidelines and educational resources to improve the supply of data to providers of knowledge bases and related tools.

i joined as a 'monitoring' member, and the first meeting is during Online on 5 december. i'll report on this further after that.