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The role of knowledge bases in The role of knowledge bases in improving discoverability now and in improving discoverability now and in the future- why national and the future- why national and international collaboration is keyinternational collaboration is key
CONCERT Conference: Taipei, Nov 2011 Sarah Pearson
University of Birmingham
Co-Chair KBART Working Group
University of Birmingham
UoB Campus
AgendaAgenda
The changing e-resource landscape
The need for integration and visibility
The role of library technology
Standards and best practice
What does the future hold?
Changing expectations
The explosion of online publishing output
Access more with less – the Big Deal
The global economic crisis
Rising user expectation
The technology landscape shifting
The changing e-resource landscape Library catalogue (OPAC)
Link resolvers
Federated search engines
Vertical search resource discovery services
Semantic web and content aggregation
What What isis a knowledge base? a knowledge base?
A database
Contains information about web resources (global)– e.g. what journal holdings are available in JSTOR
– and how you link to articles in them
Contains information about the resources a library has licensed/owns (local)– May contain electronic and print holdings (in addition to a number of
other services)
Used by a link resolver to direct institutional users to the ‘appropriate copy’
So why is it so important?So why is it so important?
It knows where all the content is
It knows which versions the library is able to access
So – it’s the only place that can get a user to the “appropriate copy”
And that means......And that means......
More content visible to end users
Content linking is more accurate for end users
Increase in content usage
Maximum reach for authors and editors
Better return on investment for library
Favourable renewal decision
Protection of revenue for content providers
Knowledge base: Holdings information used by an OpenURL link resolver. OpenURL link resolver matches against knowledge base to determine availability of electronic full text
institution
repository
publisherwebsite
database
printcollections gateways
article citation
article title = …first author = …
journal name = …
article title = …first author = …
journal name = …
metadata string
OpenURL query (base URL+ metadata string)
resolver.institution.eduresolver.institution.edubase URL oflink resolver
link resolver’sknowledge base
publisher/providerholdings data
libraryholdings data
content licence
target (cited)article
predictable link
If the holdings information in the knowledge base is outdated/incorrect, it impacts the OpenURL link resolver performance. This affects the decision making-process of librarians and ultimately end user experience.
In order to expect consistent metadata delivery from content providers, the requirements need to be consistent as well.
Knowledge Bases And Related Tools
UKSG and NISO collaborative project
UKSG 2007 research report,“Link Resolvers and the Serials Supply Chain”
To improve navigation of the e-resource supply chain by…..
Ensuring timely transfer of accurate data to knowledge bases
Right. So. What is KBART?Right. So. What is KBART?
Standards / industry organisations
– UKSG and NISO
Working group members (stakeholders):
– Knowledge base vendors
ExLibris, Serials Solutions, EBSCO, OCLC
– Content Providers (Publisher & Aggregators)
AIP, T&F, Royal Society Publishing, Publishing Technology, Cengage Gale, Swets, Springer
– Libraries & Consortia
Full list -- http://www.uksg.org/kbart/members
DeliverablesDeliverables
A NISO Recommended Practice
A universally acceptable holdings list format
Tab-delimited text files
Delivered via HTTP or FTP
Guidelines for fields and values
A single format for sharing holdings data across the scholarly content supply chain
Hosted by providers
Discoverable on the registry
First publisher KBART adopter
– http://librarians.scitation.org/librarians/help_files.jsp
http://sites.google.com/site/kbartregistry/
Registry contactRegistry contact
Where are we at?Where are we at?
Phase I KBART Recommended Practice released Jan 2010
www.uksg.org/kbart
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart
Endorsers listed at http://www.uksg.org/kbart/hub
Phase II started in March 2010
KBART Phase 2KBART Phase 2
Consortial metadata fields included
Open access metadata requirements
Further refinement of fields for e-books and conference proceedings
KBARTConsortialLicences
CommercialKnowledge
Bases
Shared ServicesIndustry
StandardsPublisher
Engagement
Resource Discovery
DevelopmentsMetadata
Repository
Institutionalentitlements
KB Metadata: The FutureKB Metadata: The Future
Shared services and ‘above campus’ solutions to e-resource management inefficiencies
Best practice on integration with Resource Discovery Services
Open metadata initiatives to improve re-user of collections metadata
Analysis of standards in ERM arena and gap analysis
Thank You!Thank You!
Sarah Pearson
E-Resources & Serials Coordinator
University of Birmingham