September 15, 2010 -- Emeryville, CA. Innovative Interfaces has endorsed the recommendations of the Knowledge Base and Related Tools (KBART) Working Group, a joint effort by NISO and the UK Serials Group (UKSG) to improve data quality in the knowledge base supply chain.

Innovative's KBART compliance will be implemented in both WebBridge and WebBridge LR products, providing improved OpenURL linking to full text article content from citations in external KBART-compliant reference databases.

The KBART Working Group objectives include understanding what data is necessary to enable a library's link resolver to function optimally and to develop a universally accepted KBART metadata format for use in the knowledge base supply chain downstream from providers to libraries. The advantage, according to the working group, is that the KBART metadata structure will save publisher time and improve customer relations by providing a standardized way to exchange and update product availability details.

For more information, refer to the NISO web site at: http://www.niso.org/workrooms/kbart

About Innovative Interfaces

Innovative Interfaces (www.iii.com) dedicates its energies to meeting the needs of libraries and the challenges of library automation. The company has fulfilled this mission with first-rate services and products such as the Millennium integrated library platform, INN-Reach resource sharing, Electronic Resource Management, and the Encore discovery services platform. Today, thousands of libraries of all types in over 50 countries rely on Innovative's products, services, and support. The company is located in Emeryville, California with offices around the world.