1. The NBK as a replacement for SUNCAT… What’s the plan?
Neil Grindley, Head of Resource Discovery, Jisc

2. National Bibliographic Knowledgebase National Bibliographic
enabling nationwide
collaboration
National
Bibliographic
Knowledgebase

3. The NBK Vision Identifiers Standards From a library From a publisher
From the Web
From a repository
The NBK Vision
Enhanced Collection Management
Community Engagement
Better Data Accessibility
Identifiers
Better Version Tracking & Linking
Advice & Guidance
Standards
Better Digital Access
Quality Assurance
More Effective Metadata
Circulation Data
Usage & Analytics
Demand Information

4. 145 institutions have agreed to participate
NBK Progress
The numbers so far …
145 institutions have agreed to participate
75 datasets have been made available to the NBK
70 datasets have been processed

5. The NBK will start to be a viable service in January 2019
Expectations
The NBK will start to be a viable service in January 2019
SUNCAT will be retired in July 2019

6. NBK Beta Trial Interface Available!

7. A more fully developed NBK interface will be released in January 2019

9. Serials metadata is currently excluded from the NBK record clustering process
The SUNSET project will ensure that the NBK identifies and meets community requirements for serials data

10. Draft Timeline – SUNSET Project

11. Current Working Assumptions on Serials Data Requirements & Use Cases
Show holdings information
Support for UK Research Reserve (Scarcity Checking)
Serials Collection Management: holdings comparison service
Support discovery for ILL requests
Identify Open Access journals
Interoperation with other Jisc services
Zetoc
KB+
Keepers Registry
Open URL Router

12. Future enhancements / directions …?
Record matching and merging techniques
Customisation / Personalisation features
Join up with library access schemes
More integration with ILL
Non-MARC formats and linked data
Links to article level information
Use of authority controls and identifiers
Scope of contributing libraries