GOKb: The Global Open Knowledgebase (Liber 2013)

Kristin Antelman, NCSU & GOKbLiam Earney, Jisc Collections & KB+

LIBERJune 26, 2013

GOKb is 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.

Data to Support E-Resource Lifecycle Management

License

Activate

Buy

Manage

Assess

Select

GOKb Partners

GOKb Timeline

2012 2013 2014 20152011 2016

GOKb and KB+ collaborate on data

model

GOKb Phase I:Proof of Concept

Release

GOKb funded by Mellon Foundation

and Kuali OLE Partner libraries

GOKb Public

Release

Community development New partnersEnhanced functionaity

GOKb Phase II:Partner Release

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

Data quality and availability

My sales rep asked me if we could let them know which of their

journals we subscribe to.

We didn’t know so we asked our agent, but they didn’t know eitherLibrarianJISC Collections Roadshow12th June 2012

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Duplicated Effort

The Big Four KBs employ c80 FTE on KB maintenanceBUT…

Breeding, M, E-resource knowledge bases and link resolvers: an assessment of the current products and emerging trends, Insights, 2012, 25(2), 173–182, doi: 10.1629/2048-7754.25.2.173

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and quality

Interoperability

My Content

Publisher

Subs Agent

ERM

Link resolver

Filing cabinets

Spreadsheets

Library staff

Consortia

APPROACHES

Open data Collaborative Communities

Enriched information

Standards and Best Practice?

Approaches to resolving the problem

OPEN DATA

Open data delivers practical benefits

• Share and Collaborate with anyone and everyone– Improve accuracy– Publication information provided to all systems

vendors– Reduces the burden on any one element in the

supply chain– Efforts not tied in or limited to specific products or

systems– Easier to seed knowledge bases

COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITIES

3rd Party Systems

and Services

Doing more by working together

• Publisher Data• Package information• Standard licences

Global (GOKb)

• National/Consortial information• National licences• Central Services

National (KB+)

• Local holdings• Financial information• Documentation

Institutional(Kuali OLE)

International Cooperation

GOKb

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ENRICHED INFORMATION

Communities of knowledge

A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge

Grace Hopper"The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper" by Philip Schieber in OCLC Newsletter, No. 167 (March/April 1987)

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STANDARDS AND BEST PRACTICE

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GOKB

GOKb: Packages

GOKb: Packages

GOKb: Title Instance Package Platform (TIPPs)

WebApp - TIPPs

GOKb: Titles

GOKb: Titles and TIPPs

OpenRefine with GOKb extension

OpenRefine with GOKb extension

OpenRefine - Importing a raw file

OpenRefine - Applying rules

OpenRefine - Applying rules

OpenRefine - Applying rules

OpenRefine - Ingest

USING GOKB DATA

Co-referencing Service: A bridge between identifiers and resources

GOKb TIPP ID

OCLC IDs

Vendor IDs

Catalog IDsDOI

ISSNs

National KBsLibrary

Management Systems

Vendor KBs

subscriptionagents

librarye-resourcecommunity content

providers

publishers

Catalogs

Open web,DBPedia,

etc.

GETTING INVOLVED

Why should you get involved?

• Ensure consistency of data across supply chain• Better customer service• Increased use of e-resources

A Community, not a Start-up

• Open data and software• Extensible community model for data

management• Structured participation will be possible for:– National KBs– Vendors– Individual libraries

THANK YOU