Understanding the Importance of Knowledgebases in Libraries
Explore the central role of Knowledgebases in libraries, their function in managing content, benefits for end-users, authors, and editors, and challenges faced with metadata and link resolution. Learn how Knowledgebases enhance content visibility, accuracy in linking, usage metrics, and ROI for libraries and content providers.
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The KBART Recommended Practice Nettie Lagace (@abugseye) NISO Associate Director for Programs CEAL Workshop on Electronic Resources Standards and Best Practices March 25, 2014
OpenURL basics print collections gateways article citation database OpenURL query (base URL + metadata string) repository publisher/provider holdings data publisher website link resolver/ knowledge base target (cited) article
What is a KnowledgeBase? 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
The KnowledgeBases Central Role in the Library It tracks the library s content and identifies locations for the content 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 the one that his/her library has licensed.
Benefits for All 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 Favorable renewal decision Protection of revenue for content providers
Where the chain breaks Wrong data Publisher gives wrong metadata for title to the KB Link resolver uses bad metadata to make link Link does not resolve to correct target Dead end Outdated data Publisher said it has a particular issue Link resolver links to an article from it Issue has been removed Dead end Or, provider doesn t notify that issue is now live So no traffic from link resolvers to that issue!
Ebooks Challenges Incomplete Non-standard data Frequency 8
Ebooks Phase I recommendations were serial-centric Some fields were dual-purpose date_first_issue_online Identifiers Holding s content type was ambiguous Phase II 8 new monographic fields added Disambiguation of usage 9
Ebooks Serials! Phase II Serials-only fields for Phase II: date_first_issue_online num_first_vol_online num_first_issue_online date_last_issue_online num_last_vol_online num_last_issue_online 10
Ebooks and Serials! Phase II Fields used for both monographs and serials: Identifiers title_id embargo_info coverage_depth coverage_notes title_url Publication_type (Serial, Monograph) 11
New Ebooks fields for Phase II date_monograph_published_print date_monograph_published_online monograph_volume monograph_edition first_editor 12
Book Series / Proceedings - Phase II Challenges Both serial and monograph Users search for both titles New fields parent_publication_title_id preceding_publication_title_id 13
Open Access OA has gotten more popular Importance of facilitating access to both paid and free peer-reviewed, quality publications (not just fee-based material). 14
Open Access Challenges What to do with Hybrid OA models? Embargoed Hybrid OA example: free access until one year ago. Title transfer OA title changes from OA to paid (or vice versa) upon transfer to another publisher. Author-paid OA some articles fee-based. Full OA all content is free Title-level vs. article-level OA metadata 15
Open Access The decision was made not to differentiate between Free and OA for KBART. Needed to strike a balance between noting significant OA content and making the file understandable. 16
Open Access Free-text coverage_notes field suggested to explain subtleties of OA availability for that particular title. New field access_type F title is mostly fee-based (subscription/purchase) OA 50% or more of the title is OA/freely accessible. 17
Consortia Survey results Libraries purchase titles as a consortium Consortium administrators and librarians need the same title-level information from their consortium-purchased packages as they do from vanilla publisher packages. Difficult to obtain accurate consortium- specific title lists. 18
Consortia We re-state the importance of providing a separate file for each Global package that the Content Provider offers. Consortium-specific files should be created when: A unique set of titles has been packaged for the consortium, different than the Content Provider s standard packages. A package contains unique dates of coverage. 19
Consortia Changes to file naming for ALL files. Addition of Region/Consortium value in file structure. [ProviderName]_[Region/Consortium]_[Package Name]_[YYYY-MM-DD].txt Applicable to Consortia packages and Regional variants (e.g., Asia-Pacific , Germany , etc.) Global value is used if the package is available for all libraries to purchase. 20
Consortia New File Name Examples Title list is not region or consortium-specific, includes all titles from the content provider: JSTOR_Global_AllTitles_2008-12-01.txt Taylor & Francis_Global_AllTitles_2012-08-30 Title list is consortium-specific, for a specific package: IOP_NESLi2_Option 1 (2011)_2012-05-31.txt (includes a year as part of the package name) Oxford_SCELC_AllTitles_2012-01-09.txt (contains all titles that the consortium has subscribed to) Title list is region-specific, for a specific package: Springer_Asia-Pacific_Medicine_2012-08-03.txt 21
KBARTs lifespan Phase 1 Universally accepted standardized publisher metadata, regularly distributed AND available on demand Phase 2 Broad adoption, Consortia, More content type coverage (eBooks, conference proceedings), Open Access materials Final document now in last stage of NISO approval before publication Phase 3? Even more content types, automated delivery, institutional metadata????
Publisher Involvement 1. Everything can be found at http://www.uksg.org/kbart/endorsement Review the requirements (data samples available) Format your title lists accordingly. Self-check to ensure they conform to the recommended practice Ensure that you have a process in place for regular data updates Register your organization on the KBART registry website: http://bit.ly/kbartregistry 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Thank you! Questions? nlagace@niso.org @abugseye Spring Colors! by cerebros1 is licensed under CC-BY
