Presented at Liber 2013 by Kristin Antelman and Liam Earney

1. Kristin Antelman, NCSU & GOKb
Liam Earney, Jisc Collections & KB+
LIBER
June 26, 2013

2. 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.

3. Data to Support E-Resource Lifecycle Management
License
Activate
Buy
Manage
Assess
Select

4. GOKb Partners

5. 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 partners
Enhanced functionaity
GOKb Phase II:
Partner Release

6. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

7. 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 either
Librarian
JISC Collections Roadshow
12th June 2012
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8. Duplicated Effort
The Big Four KBs employ c80 FTE on KB maintenance
BUT…
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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minor points of differentiation
in their comprehensiveness
and quality

9. Interoperability
My
Content
Publisher
Subs
Agent
ERM
Link
resolver
Filing
cabinets
Spread
sheets
Library
staff
Consortia

10. APPROACHES

11. Open data
Collaborative
Communities
Enriched
information
Standards and
Best Practice?
Approaches to resolving the problem

12. OPEN DATA

13. 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

14. COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITIES

15. 3rd Party
Systems
and
Services
Doing more by working together
• Publisher Data
• Package information
• Standard licencesGlobal (GOKb)
• National/Consortial information
• National licences
• Central ServicesNational (KB+)
• Local holdings
• Financial information
• Documentation
Institutional
(Kuali OLE)

16. International Cooperation
GOKb
?

17. ENRICHED INFORMATION

18. 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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19. STANDARDS AND BEST PRACTICE

20. ONIX

21. GOKB

22. GOKb: Packages

23. GOKb: Packages

24. GOKb: Title Instance Package Platform (TIPPs)

25. WebApp - TIPPs

26. GOKb: Titles

27. GOKb: Titles and TIPPs

28. OpenRefine with GOKb extension

29. OpenRefine with GOKb extension

30. OpenRefine - Importing a raw file

31. OpenRefine - Applying rules

32. OpenRefine - Applying rules

33. OpenRefine - Applying rules

34. OpenRefine - Ingest

35. USING GOKB DATA

36. Co-referencing Service:
A bridge between identifiers and resources
GOKb
TIPP ID
OCLC
IDs
Vendor
IDs
Catalog
IDsDOI
ISSNs

37. National KBs
Library
Management
Systems
Vendor
KBs
subscription
agents
library
e-resource
community content
providers
publishers
Catalog
s
Open web,
DBPedia,
etc.

38. GETTING INVOLVED

39. Why should you get involved?
• Ensure consistency of data across supply chain
• Better customer service
• Increased use of e-resources

40. 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

41. THANK YOU