The NISO KBART (KnowledgeBases And Related Tools) Automation working group is creating a recommended practice to build a seamless connection between libraries' local knowledge bases and information providers’ access/entitlement systems. Could a standard application of an API really bring to librarians and users the holy grail: accurate and timely library holdings across different systems?
Stephanie Doellinger is a Senior Metadata Operations Manager at OCLC. Over her 10-year tenure, she and her team have worked with both publishers and libraries to manage the processing and validation of e-resource metadata which make up the WorldCat knowledge base and Central Index... Read More →
Associate Executive Director, NISO - National Information Standards Organization
Nettie Lagace is the Associate Executive Director at NISO, where she is responsible for facilitating the work of NISO's topic committees and development groups for standards and best practices, and working with the community to encourage broad adoption of this consensus work. Prior... Read More →
Noah Levin works for Springer Nature managing their Link Resolver/Discovery data, MARC Records, ONIX Feeds and internal metadata workflows. Noah is also a member of the NISO KBART Standing Committee and the KBART Automation Working Group. Starting his career in the industry 21 years... Read More →
Many e-resources librarians deal with a chicken-and-egg problem: Libraries need to be able to track important universal information about e-resources while cultivating site-specific metadata that is not common to all libraries. However, CORAL, an open source ERM, provides opportunities for integration with global knowledgebases that can seamlessly leverage universal data.
Right now, I spend most of my work time obsessing about authentication, battling a link resolver, and manipulating CORAL. Please talk to me about these things! (Seriously. I need all the tips I can get.)
