[Asis-l] NISO Announces New Publishers Enacting Phase Two of KBART Guidelines, Encourages Other Publishers to Seek Endorsement

[NISO Announce]

Baltimore, 11/21/2016 - The National Information Standards Organization
(NISO) is pleased to announce that five publishers are now supplying
metadata that conforms to phase two of the recommended practice, KBART:
Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (NISO RP-9-2014)
<http://www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart>. Conformance with KBART indicates
that the format and content of data supplied by these publishers observe
practical recommendations for timely exchange between content providers and
knowledge base vendors.

The newest endorsers are:

   - Greenleaf Publishing
   - Harvard University Press
   - IEEE
   - Oxford University Press
   - Project MUSE

John Peters, Managing Director, Greenleaf Publishing, comments, "We are
committed to serving our customers well, and to industry standards that
benefit our customers. We are pleased to be endorsing the KBART initiative."

"The KBART Standing Committee encourages all providers that have taken the
time and effort to follow the KBART recommendations to seek endorsement
from the Standing Committee," says Kathy Marcaccio, Publication Metadata
Program Manager at Cengage Learning and co-chair of that committee.
"Endorsement by the Standing Committee is an indicator to librarians and
vendors that the provider is serious about making its content work well
with library discovery and management products to give libraries the best
possible experience."

"All content providers, from major databases to small publishers, are
encouraged to submit a sample file to the KBART Standing Committee" says
Magaly Bascones, Service Manager at Jisc Collections and co-chair of the
committee. "Once the file's format and content has been reviewed and
approved, and the provider has made it publicly available (in line with the
recommendations), the provider will be added to a public list of endorsing
providers. Bascones adds, "Knowledge base developers can endorse the KBART
Recommended Practice by confirming that their systems can process KBART
formatted files."

To learn about how your organization can endorse KBART, and for more
information on the initiative's Phase II activities, visit
www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart.

*About KBART*

The NISO KBART (Knowledge Bases And Related Tools) Standing Committee
manages and supports Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) Recommended
Practice (NISO RP-9-2014). This publication provides all parties in the
information supply chain with straightforward guidance about metadata
formatting to ensure the exchange of accurate metadata between content
providers and knowledge base developers. Phase II of the Recommendations,
published in 2014 builds on the original 2010 publication by supporting
consortia-specific metadata and metadata transfer for open access
publications, e-books, and conference proceedings. For more information,
visit www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart.

*About NISO*

NISO 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 an information standard. NISO is a not-for-profit
association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
More information about NISO is available on its website: http://www.niso.org
.