The Jisc-led national monograph strategy (NMS) roadmap set out a number of recommendations, including the design and implementation of a national monograph knowledge base (a ‘monobase’) as core infrastructure for finding and managing print and digital monographs. This session will report on progress towards establishing the knowledgebase, set out forward plans and invite a panel to discuss ideal outcomes. Delegates will have the chance to ask questions and give their own perspectives on this work.

1. Building trust in a national
monograph knowledgebase

2. Introduction
»What topic are we addressing?
»Who is who?
»What is Jisc’s role?
»Who are we working with?
»What are we aiming to do in this workshop?
»Definitions and terminology
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3. Jisc BD-NMS Project (2015-2016)
»Strategy
› Stakeholder engagement
› Communications
»National knowledgebase
› Metadata
»Digital access
› Rights and licensing
› Digitisation scenarios
»eBooks
»Bibliographic data
»National monograph
solutions
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4. What problems are we trying to solve?
»Libraries want to make data-driven decisions about the
management of their digital and print book collections but the
data that is currently available does not allow them to do this
with confidence
»Libraries want to ensure that researchers and learners have
sustainable and convenient access to digital books but it is
currently not obvious what is available or what could readily be
made available
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5. 2 main strands
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Licensing and
Rights Portal
UK National Bibliographic
Knowledgebase
Access Pilot
Projects
Data Digital access

6. What is a National bibliographic knowledgebase?
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Availability data
Usage data
Legal deposit
libraries
Academic
research libraries
Teaching and business
engaged libraries
Specialist libraries
Open access
book directories
Benchmarking
collections
Managing print
collections
Document delivery
Digitisation and
preservation
Resource discovery
Copy cataloguing

7. Six objectives of the knowledgebase
»Data-driven strategy
»Space management
»Digital access (licensing)
»Digital access (discovery)
»Better eBook data
»Openness / innovation
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8. Related services
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Usage data
Assurance of
data accessibility
Version tracking
and linking
Facilitation of new
publishing models
Availability data
Data quality
enhancement
Advice and
guidance
Community
engagement
Support for
novel forms of
metadata research

9. Building the knowledgebase
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New tools
and services
Researchers and
learners
UK academic
libraries
Bibliographic data
services
Service provider
UK knowledgebase

10. Digital access…
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11. Initial analysis of the data
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Problem analysis
22
58
17
60
706
43
70 58 75
103
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
Package
only
Price Format >chapter Not
available
Not in UK No instit OoP Outside CLA Other

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0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
120%
Pre-1959 1960-1969 1970-1979 1980-1989 1990-1999 2000-2009 2010-2016
No e-book e-book available
*based on data submitted by pilot institutions
How digitally available are requested titles?*

13. Benchmarking and profiling of collections
»Delving into the data helps to reveal:
› Licensing and cost barriers
› Format issues
› Unique and fragile materials in collections
»The knowledgebase presents the potential to express factual and
contextual information to help facilitate licensing and digitisation
conversations at an institutional and consortia level within and
beyond the UK
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14. Guest Speaker #1
Stuart Hunt, Head of resource development and delivery,
Oxford Brookes University

15. Guest Speaker #2
Frances Machell, Head of collection management,
University of Birmingham

16. Discussion Questions
»What are the most important functions that the proposed
knowledgebase might deliver to libraries and their users?
»What are the barriers to building trust in such a solution?
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17. Timetable
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2014/15 2015/16 2016/17
July July
BSI/LSS studies
BD-NMS project
Implementation
and pilot work
Business case
Choose
Service
Provider

18. jisc.ac.uk
Thanks for taking part!
Neil Grindley
Head of resource discovery
neil.grindley@jisc.ac.uk
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