1. Kristin Antelman
Kristen Wilson
UKSG March 31, 2015

2. Overview
• Project overview
• Demo
• Partnerships
• Open data & open access

3. 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.

4. GOKb supports the lifecycle of licensed
content
Select
• Package
• Trial
License
• Activate
• Buy
Manage
• Troubleshoot
• Manage Changes
Assess
• Measures of Value
• Use
• Costs
The Knowledgebase
supports, at each stage,
management of resources

5. Building capacity to support both product
and process
“the scholarly record …. is
now much more mutable
and dynamic than in the
past; it is made available
through a blend of both
formal and informal
publication channels.”
“another trend of note is
the reconfiguration of
the stakeholder roles
associated with the
scholarly record.”

6. Value proposition for GOKb
Solving problems across the industry
• Duplication of effort
• Data quality issues1
• Untangling data and software
1Hill, K. & Collins, M. (2013, June 6-9). Building a Better Knowledgebase: A Community Perspective.
Presented at the NASIG Annual Meeting in Buffalo, NY.

7. Current supply chain
KB A KB B KB C
lib 1 lib 2 lib 3 lib 4 lib 5 lib 6
Publisher A Publisher B Publisher C

8. Project timeline
GOKb and KB+
collaborate on data
model
Funded by Mellon
Foundation & Kuali
OLE Partnership
Proof of Concept
Release
Partner Release
Public preview
and Phase 2
Mellon funding
Community development
New partners
Enhanced functionaity

9. GOKb partners

10. International cooperation
?

11. GOKb in the ecosystem
• Publisher Data
• Package information
• Standard licencesGlobal (GOKb)
• National/Consortial information
• National licences
• Central ServicesNational (KB+)
• Local holdings
• Financial information
• Documentation
Local
(OLE)
3rd Party
Systems &
Services

12. GOKb and local systems
Local (OLE,
KB+)
Global (GOKb)
National (KB+)

13. OpenRefine

14. GOKb demo
http://gokb.kuali.org/gokb

15. Next steps
• Phase 1 iteration
• Rules and ingest
• Customized views
• Phase 2
• Ebooks
• Linked data
• Partnerships

16. Library partners
• Data collection
• Data quality
• Consortial management

17. Vendor partners
• Data quality
• Identifiers

18. Publisher partners
• KBART
implementation
• KBART file
hosting
• Data quality

19. Potential supply chain
Publisher A Publisher B Publisher C
KB A KB B KB C
lib 4
lib 5
lib 6
lib 4
lib 5
lib 6
KBART
KBART KBART

20. Open data and open access

21. “Reusable, structured data has
become the main machine for
doing the heavy lifting of
moving knowledge around.”
Bill Thompson, “The open library and its
enemies,” Insights, November 2014

22. Open data
• Title lists have no rights issues
… but data is not well structured or machine
readable
• KBART can improve data standardization
… but scope is narrow and “well-structured”
requirements are minimal
• GOKb enhances data; applies structure and
supports reusability; makes data actionable

24. Organization Name Linked Data (ONLD)
service
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/ld/onld/

25. Gold/full
y OA
journals
Articles in
subscribed
journals in
Library x
Hybrid
OA
Delayed
OA
Green
OA
OA and subscribed collections

26. • SHARE (Green OA)
• GOKb can provide additional
information around journal
titles, change events, and
organizations
• Use co-referencing service to
map SHARE registry to
subscribed collection
GOKb as source of reliable data

27. Jisc Monitor
• Jisc Monitor work to explore shared OA services
• “GUIDE” – Gathering Useful IDs Early (co-referencing service)
• Tracking transition to open access

28. Bring variant
names together to
enable accurate
reporting
Standardize
titles and link to
contextual detail
Potential uses of GOKb co-referencing service

29. Emerging ecosystem of complementary
services

30. Thank you. Questions?
gokb.org
gokb.kuali.org/gokb