Come One, Come All:
Building a Community for the
Global Open Knowledgebase
Kristen Wilson
NCSU Libraries
ER&L / February 23, 2015

Presentation Agenda
 Project overview and quick demo
 Partnership stories
 Next steps
 Questions

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.

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.

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

Project Time Line
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
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

GOKb Partners

Quick demo
 http://gokb.kuali.org/gokb

Why Stories?
 Evolving and shaping an iterative
conversation
 Getting input from the community
 Keeping the momentum going

Project Partners: NCSU &
Chicago
The story: how do we do it?

OLE Partners: Lehigh, Duke,
Rutgers
The story: how can we help?

Project Partners: Jisc
The story: integration and feedback

Publisher Partners: TBD
The story: fixing data at the source
Publisher A Publisher B Publisher C
KBART

Vendor Partners: TBD
The story: solving industry-wide
problems
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

Next steps
 Hire GOKb editor
 Continue training existing partners
 Pull in suggestions from the larger
community
 Work with new partners

QUESTIONS?
HTTP://GOKB.ORG
Thank you!