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Original Charge and Scope

The KBART Working Group's original charge was to improve the supply of data to link resolvers and knowledge bases, in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of OpenURL linking. This was to be achieved by providing best practice guidelines, educational materials and events, and a web hub to act as a central resource for knowledge base information.

The NISO/UKSG KBART Working Group's scope focused on problems in the information supply chain that relate to the data supplied to knowledge bases. This specifically excluded wider problems with OpenURL linking, which fall either within the remit of OCLC, the Maintenance Agency for the OpenURL standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.88-2004 (R2010), The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services), or within other NISO working groups. The group also focused specifically on data relating to content holdings rather than on bibliographic data about individual titles, which does not need to be updated as regularly as holdings data.