KBART introduction

The abbreviation KBART stands for “Knowledge Base And Related Tools”.

Goals

NISO “Best Practice” for the
- Transmission of title lists of e-resources offered by a provider in a package.
- Transmission of inventory information / holdings data from a provider for knowledge bases of link resolvers, ERM systems or discovery interfaces.
- Data exchange: “KBART is on data exchange among and between knowledge bases”
Improvement of data quality exchanged between providers and knowledge bases.
Complement of existing metadata formats like ONIX-SOH.

File format

File name

{ProviderName}_{Region/Consortia}_{PackageName}_{YYYY-MM-DD}.txt

ProviderName: Short name of the provider, e.g. Herdt, Springer, Emerald.
Region/Consortia: Geltungsbereich des Pakets
- Region: If the package is only offered in one country or other regionally definable area, the country or region should be noted here. Example: Springer_Asia-Pacific_Medicine_2013-01-28.txt.
- Consortia: If the package is tailored for a consortia, that should be noted here. Example: IOP_NESLi2_Option1-2011_2012-05-31.txt.
- If the package is available worldwide “Global” should be added to the file name. Example: TaylorandFrancis_Global_AllTitles_2012-08-30.txt.
PackageName: Name for the package.
- - Unique name of the package or provider unique short name of the package.
  - For package with all titles of a provider add “AllTitles” or “AllJournals”. Example:
TaylorandFrancis_Global_AllTitles_2012-08-30.txt.
YYYY-MM-DD: date of the KBART file in ISO-8601 format

File Content

Tab as separator
UTF-8 encoded
Date information according to ISO 8601
No empty line between header and content
Titles should be sorted alphabetically
A title should be listed multiple times if there is a “coverage gap” of at least 12 months

KBART fields

See Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART)Recommended Practice, Table 5: KBART data fields

Field Name	Description	Serial/Monograph
publication_title	Publication title for serial or monograph. Conference proceedings series titles should be entered as serial titles, while volume titles should be entered as monograph titles.	S/M
print_identifier	Print-format identifier. ISSN for serials, ISBN for monographs, etc. Conference proceedings may have serial ISSNs while each proceeding volume may have its own ISBN.	S/M
online_identifier	Online identifier. eISSN for serials, eISBN for monographs, etc. Conference proceedings may have serial eISSNs while each proceeding volume many have its own eISBN.	S/M
date_first_issue_online	Date of first serial issue available online. Applicable only to serials.	S
num_first_vol_online	Number of first volume available online. Applicable only to serials.	S
num_first_issue_online	Number of first issue available online. Applicable only to serials.	S
date_last_issue_online	Date of last issue available online. Leave blank if coverage is to the present. Applicable only to serials.	S
num_last_vol_online	Number of last volume available online. Leave blank if coverage is to the present. Applicable only to serials.	S
num_last_issue_online	Number of last issue available online. Leave blank if coverage is to the present. Applicable only to serials.	S
title_url	Title-level URL. Applicable to both serials and monograph. For conference proceedings, the title_url for the proceedings series and the title_url for each volume should be different.	S/M
first_author	First author. Applicable only to monograph.	M
title_id	Title identifier. Applicable to both serials and monographs. For conference proceedings, the title_id for the conference proceedings series and the title_id for each proceeding volume should be different.	S/M
embargo_info	Embargo information. Describes any limitations on when resources become available online.	S/M
coverage_depth	Coverage depth. For example, abstracts or full text.	S/M
notesNotes	Free-text field to describe the specifics of the coverage policy.	S/M
publisher_name	Publisher name. Not to be confused with third-party platform hosting name.	S/M
publication_type	Serial or monograph. Use “serial” for journals and conference proceeding series. Use “monograph” for e-books and conference proceeding volumes.	S/M
date_monograph_published_print	Date the monograph is first published in print.	M
date_monograph_published_online	Date the monograph is first published online.	M
monograph_volume	Number of volume for monograph. Applicable to e-books and conference proceedings. For proceedings, use the volume within the conference proceedings series.	M
monograph_edition	Edition of the monograph.	M
first_editor	First editor, Applicable to monographs, i.e., e-books or conference proceedings volumes.	M
parent_publication_title_id	Title identifier of the parent publication. For a conference proceeding volume, the parent_publication_title_id is the title_id of the conference proceedings series.
preceding_publication_title_id	Title identifier of any preceding publication title. Applicable to serials and conference proceedings series.	S
access_type	Access type. „F“ (Free) or „P“ (Paid).	S/M

Proprietary GOKB fields

Field Name	Description	Serial/Monograph
zdb_id	Title ID from ZDB journal database	S
last_changed	Date of last change.	S/M
access_start_date	Date when the title was added the package. Date of earliest possible access via package license.	S/M
access_end_date	Date when title removed from the package. Date of last possible access via package license.	S/M
medium	Detailed media type of the publication.	S/M
doi_identifier	DOI identifier	M
ezb_id	Title ID from EZB journal database	S
monograph_parent_collection_title	Extension for series titles	S/M
subject_area	Subject classes. DDC or choose other via namespaces.	S/M

KBART introduction

Goals

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File format

File name

File Content

KBART fields

Proprietary GOKB fields