**Apologies for cross posting**

*Baltimore, Maryland, September 25, 2025:* The National Information
Standards Organization (NISO) announced today that its draft revision of
the Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) Phase III Recommended
Practice (NISO RP-9-202X) is now available for public comment through
November 10, 2025, at the project web page:
https://niso.org/standards-committees/kbart.

KBART is a NISO Recommended Practice that facilitates the transfer of
holdings metadata from content providers to knowledge base suppliers and
libraries. Its use helps to ensure the integrity and functionality of
knowledge bases, which are widely used to support library link resolvers
and electronic resource management systems. Since the publication of Phase
II in 2014, the KBART Standing Committee has identified both needed
clarifications and revisions to the Recommended Practice as well as
substantial additions and new areas of work to cover. The draft of KBART
Phase III includes support for additional content types (such as audio and
video), additional support for hybrid open-access and global content, an
overhaul of the KBART endorsement process, and provisions for a file
manifest. Additionally, the Standing Committee has restarted its NISO KBART
Interest List <https://groups.google.com/a/niso.org/g/kbart-interest/about>
to foster community engagement and discussion around KBART.

“The KBART Standing Committee includes diverse stakeholders, and this
document reflects many months of generous, deliberate effort to serve
everyone’s needs as well as possible. Where KBART is a small but pivotal
piece in many complex, critical workflows, we look forward to reviewing the
broader information community’s feedback and moving toward final
publication,” said Robert Heaton, FOLIO Implementation Consultant at EBSCO
and co-chair of the Standing Committee.

“With adoption and reliance on KBART far surpassing the original
expectations when Phase I was first released, it has become critical to
offer support for both global users and multimedia content outside of the
traditional monograph/serial paradigm. The KBART Standing Committee strove
to create new, clear, and fully revised guidelines to give continued
support to the library and knowledge base infrastructure today while
creating a solid foundation for future needs,” added fellow co-chair Noah
Levin, Manager, Metadata & Digital Asset Management at Springer Nature.

NISO’s Standards Program Manager Keondra Bailey adds, “NISO would like to
express its sincere appreciation to the KBART Standing Committee for their
dedicated efforts in undertaking the significant revision of the KBART
Recommended Practice for Phase III. We urge the community to actively share
their insights and feedback, as their contributions are crucial to shaping
the future of this Recommended Practice."

The draft Recommended Practice is available for comment through November
10, 2025.

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