Knowledge Bases: The Heart of Resource Management

Abstract

This session discussed the knowledge base metadata lifecycle, current and upcoming metadata standards, and the role that knowledge bases play in e-resource management. The session provided different perspectives on knowledge bases, including from librarians, one of whom is a former knowledge base e-content analyst, and product managers, as well as a discussion of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) Automation: Automated Retrieval of Customer Electronic Holdings recommended practice and what this could mean for knowledge bases in the future. The session included a conversation regarding how leveraging knowledge bases can aid librarians in improving resource discovery within their own libraries and ultimately decrease the amount of time spent on metadata workflows.