This document provides an overview and introduction to GOKb, a freely available community-managed knowledge base for electronic resource information. The goals are to introduce GOKb, discuss what it is and isn't, provide an overview of its innovative aspects, and how people can interact with and benefit from it. GOKb aims to solve problems with current inefficient and duplicative models by creating an open, standardized source for eresource management information that can be maintained and used by the broader library community.

1. Charleston Conference 2012

2. 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?

3. 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.

4. What is the problem we’re trying to
solve?
1. Kuali OLE needs a KB
2. Current model is:
a. Too local
b. Inefficient
c. Duplicative
d. Hinders access
e. No good match points
3. Lack of open, community-maintained source for
publicly available information that supports
eresource management

5. Scope
• Management not discovery
• KB for Kuali OLE
• Collaboration with JISC (KnowledgeBase+)
– Data model
– Data
– Management infrastructure
• KB data for other projects

6. GOKb
Titles
Co-
reference
service
Commun-
ity forums
Changes
over
time
APIs
Packages
GOKb
Open Data
Standards
based
Community
managed
Principles
Potential
Participants
JISC Collections
Content
providers
Subscription
Agents
Vendors
OLE partners
National KBs
Global
Managed
collections

7. 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

8. What will be in GOKb and when?

9. What will be in GOKb and when?

10. GOKb/KB+
Data model
(simplified)

15. Co-
referencing
service
National KBs
Titles
Packages
Platforms
TIPP ID
Orgs
ILS/ERM
Vendor KBs subscription
agents
library
e-resource
community
content
providers
publishers

16. Sustainability
• Sustainability = community participation and
organizational commitment
• Governance
• Community = librarians, publishers, content
providers, vendors, standards groups
• Technical architecture = rules-based data
processing

17. 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?