This session will comprise a talk with a panel of speakers looking at KBART: seven years later (since the publication of the first set of recommendations up to today). The panel will discuss the changes on the e-resources metadata landscape, the benefits of KBART and the challenges of its implementation. Today poor metadata in the electronic resources supply chain is still a problem. The panel will use practical examples to explain how metadata creation, consumption and usage are marked by the constant requirement of finding the balance between available resources (technical and human) and end user discoverability needs. The KBART Standing Committee sees the implementation of KBART recommendations as a community effort from a range of stakeholders (content providers, knowledge bases, link resolvers and librarians).

1. IEEE and KBART:
History, Challenges,
Logistics, and Results
Julie Zhu
Discovery Service Relations Manager
IEEE
2017 UKSG Conference
Harrogate, UK

2. A not-for-profit society
World’s largest technical membership
association with over 420,000
members in 160 countries
Five core areas of activity
– Publishing
– Conferences
– Standards
– Membership
– E-learning
About the IEEE
IEEE’s Mission
IEEE's core purpose is to foster technological innovation and excellence
for the benefit of humanity
Major packages
IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL)
including journals, proceedings,
standards
IEEE Enterprise
including journals, proceedings, and
ebook chapters
IEEE-Wiley eBooks Library
MIT Press eBooks Library
Morgan & Claypool eBooks Library

3. IEEE & KBART: History
2012-2014
IEEE
•7 KBART I
lists for
journals
•OPAC lists
separated by
content types
•Missing
ISBNs/ISSNs
Link Resolvers
•Limited
number of
IEEE Xplore
targets
•IEL targets
separated by
content types
•Slow updates
Libraries
•Significant
link resolver
configuration
problems
•User/library
complaints
about link
resolutions

4. Collaborating to Reduce Content Gaps in Discovery: What Publishers,
Discovery Service Providers, and Libraries Can Do to Close the Gaps
Julie Zhu & Jalyn Kelley, Science & Technology Libraries 34.4 (2015): 315-328.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0194262X.2015.1102677

5. IEEE & KBART: Challenges
Linking
Problems
Publisher Library
KB Vendor
Improve internal
communication
Create consolidated
Title lists for all packages
Improve metadata
Set up targets for all packages
Consolidate targets
Troubleshoot
Provide
configuration guides
Audit discovery
& linking
Outreach

6. IEEE and KBART: Logistics

7. IEEE and KBART: Results
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/kbart

8. IEEE and KBART: Results

9. IEEE and KBART: Ongoing Initiatives

12. KB Inclusion of KBART I Fields

13. KB Inclusion of KBART II Fields

14. KBART: What Can Libraries Do?
Subscriptions
& Title Lists
Check what your library subscribes to
Understand what titles should be in each subscription.
If not sure, check IEEE KBART portal: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/kbart
If any list, title or metadata is missing, report to IEEE Online Support
KB Targets Check if the corresponding targets are available in your link resolver KB
If not, report to the vendor AND IEEE Online Support
Check if targets for all subscribed packages are enabled in KB
IEEE Guides http://ieeexplore.iee.org/discovery and http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/openurl
Verify Verify if all subscribed titles are in your library’s AtoZ list
Check if CustomLinks, IEDL, OpenURL links are enabled
Verify if full text links are available for all content types
If there are problems or not sure, contact IEEE / Content Online

15. Thank You
Julie Zhu
IEEE - Discovery Service Relations Manager
Zhu.j@ieee.org
NISO - Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee
ODI Standing Committee
KBART Standing Committee
Tracking Link Origins Working Group