knowledge base+: a cloud-based community knowledge base

Libraries in the cloud: Building a shared knowledge base for UKHE.Ben Showers

JISC Programme Manager, Digital Infrastructure

Friday 24th February

JIBS, SOAS

About...

Ben Showers

Programme Manager

JISC Digital Infrastructure

b.showers@jisc.ac.uk

Twitter: @benshowers

Phone: 020 3006 6015

08/04/2023 | | Slide 3

Back to the Future and into the Cloud

“They say the next big thing is here,that the revolution's near,

but to me it seems quite clearthat it's all just a little bit of history

repeating itself”

Propellerheads , featuring Miss Shirley Bassey

The Problems

• Data accuracy and availability

• Interoperability: Silos and flows

• Implementation of standards

• Duplication of effort

• Populating Knowledge bases

• Maintenance of Link Resolvers

A Cloud based Community Knowledge Base

Quality

KB+Verification

Title lists

Holdings

Licences

Usage statistics

Alerts

Workflow

Phase One

Data

Standards

Interoperability

Shared Activity

Business Model

Legal Model

Principles Participants

JISC Services

Publishers

Systems Vendors

Subscription Agents

Registration Agencies

Academic Institutions

• Improved value for money for institutional customers

• Reduced costs of data management, creation and exchange

• Partnerships with UK institutions (and overseas)

Benefits• Access to accurate data for UK (and overseas)

• Ability to integrate with value-add tools and services

InteroperabilityData

ExchangeData

Maintenance

JISC Services

Supplier Systems

Local Systems

Open Source

Investing in the enhancement and improvement of existing services whilst supporting the needs and viability of local systems and new services

Standards

Usage

SUSHI COUNTER

Publication Information

ONIX for Serials KBART

Licence Management

ONIX-PL

Identifiers

Authority files

Data

Accurate Authoritative Structured Validated Timely

Publication Information

Link Resolvers

Knowledge Bases

Usage Statistics

JUSP Analysis Tools

Entitlements

Entitlement Registry

Licences

Licence Comparison

Tool

Subscription management landscape

OCLC (web scale)

ALMA (Ex Libris)

CORAL

Open Library Environment

User groups

Unofficial collaborations

KBART

JUSP

E-Registry

Peprs

Suncat

Activity data

TERMs

JISC FundedCommunity Initiatives

Commercial developments

eMatrix

Open Knowledge Bases

Community Developments

Community effort

ERMIInnovative (Sierra platform)

Discovery

A data-centric approach

How does the KB+ change the wider library systems landscape?

Discovery Emerging tools and Library Systems

Knowledge Base Plus

JISC Information and Library Infrastructure

The squeezed middle...

Discovery Electronic Resource Management

LMS

You have to know the past to understand the present

Dr Carl Sagan

A little bit of history…

2009 SCONUL Shared Services Study for HEFCE

2010-11 Use Case and User Requirements project

2010-11 Knowledge exchange with Kuali OLE

HEFCE has awarded UMF funding to JISC to July 2012

Owen Stephens and David Kay undertake some interim work ‘pump priming’

Turning point JISC Collections agrees to be the managing agent for the project August – Liam becomes project lead

The clouds methought would open and show riches

Ready to drop upon me,

when I wak'd, I cried to dream again. Caliban, the Tempest

Stormy Clouds...?

• Infrastructure and Skills

• Obsolescence: Services as much as hardware

• Lock-in: Standard formats across cloud providers?

a silver lining

• New approach to skills

• Enhancing and Supporting Community activity

• Scale: Greater than the sum

• Back to the User: make the admin efficient and easy; innovate and serve the user!

• Open, Standards-based approach

Find out more...

• Website: http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/knowledgebaseplus/

• Blog: http://knowledgebaseplus.wordpress.com/

• Twitter: @jiscKBplus