Vendor-maintained knowledge bases seek to offer comprehensive coverage of items that are available to a wider community.
The link resolver extracts information received in an OpenURL and uses the knowledge base to augment and correct the data and to find services available to this user for this item.
In order for OpenURL linking to be successful in directing users to full text and other services; two components are required.
To be able to direct the user to the right content and to provide correct information it is essential for a knowledge base that the data is accurate, comprehensive and up to date.
As a result, in 2008 UKSG and NISO set up a joint initiative called Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART)[3] to make recommendations for the transfer of metadata.