The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the formal publication of recommended practices for KBART Automation: Automated Retrieval of Customer Electronic Holdings (NISO RP-26-2019). This Recommended Practice supports the timely exchange of accurate, library-specific KBART-formatted holdings reports between content providers’ access control systems and knowledge bases, allowing knowledge base-powered systems to more accurately reflect content accessible at a particular institution and its unique holdings, with little interaction or ongoing maintenance from library staff.
Users will be presented with information on content that is immediately accessible to them at the point of need. Updated knowledge bases in turn drive increased usage, an important consideration for content providers, notes Oliver Pesch, Chief Product Strategist at EBSCO Information Services and the other co-chair of the KBART Automation Working Group. Knowledge base providers will not have to create custom solutions for each content provider, reducing costs and improving efficiencies.
The published version of the recommended practice may be found at the KBART Automation web page at: https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/kbart/kbart-automation.
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