Come One, Come All: Building a Community for the Global Open Knowledgebase

Come One, Come All:

Building a Community for the

Global Open KnowledgebaseKristen 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 &

ChicagoThe story: how do we do it?

OLE Partners: Lehigh, Duke,

RutgersThe 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

KB

AR

T

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

KB

AR

T

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!