GOKb Focus Group (Charleston 2012)

Charleston Conference 2012

Goals for today

• Introduce you to GOKb • Discuss what GOKb IS and what it ISN’T• Provide an overview of what’s innovative

about GOKb• How can I interact with GOKb and why would I

want to?• What else should we be thinking about?

Introduction to GOKb

GOKb will be a freely available community-managed data repository that will contain key publication information about electronic resources as it is represented within the supply chain from content publishers to suppliers to libraries.

What is the problem we’re trying to solve?

1. Kuali OLE needs a KB2. Current model is:

a. Too localb. Inefficientc. Duplicatived. Hinders accesse. No good match points

3. Lack of open, community-maintained source for publicly available information that supports eresource management

Scope

• Management not discovery• KB for Kuali OLE• Collaboration with JISC (KnowledgeBase+)– Data model– Data– Management infrastructure

• KB data for other projects

GOKb

Titles

Co-reference

service

Commun-ity forums

Changes over time

APIs

Packages

GOKb

Open Data

Standards based

Community managed

PrinciplesPotential

Participants

JISC Collections

Content providers

Subscription Agents

Vendors

OLE partners

National KBs

Global

Managed collections

What will make GOKb a success

1. GOKb has to support management of e-resources in OLE, be well integrated with OLE interfaces so data management happens as part of regular library workflows

2. GOKb has to also be of interest to a broader community that will be want to use the data and contribute to its maintenance

3. GOKb should improve the quality of metadata in the supply chain (outside GOKb)

4. GOKb supports coordination of cooperative efforts across national KB initiatives

What will be in GOKb and when?

What will be in GOKb and when?

GOKb/KB+ Data model (simplified)

Co-referencing

service

National KBs

TitlesPackagesPlatformsTIPP IDOrgs

ILS/ERM

Vendor KBs subscriptionagents

librarye-resourcecommunity

content providers

publishers

Sustainability

• Sustainability = community participation and organizational commitment

• Governance

• Community = librarians, publishers, content providers, vendors, standards groups

• Technical architecture = rules-based data processing

Questions

• How does GOKb fit? How can GOKb help solve existing problems?

• Thinking of the sector YOU represent, what GOKb could do that would make you willing to use GOKb data and contribute data to GOKb?

• What barriers do you see to this project?

• What does a sustainable community look like?