knowledge base+: a cloud-based community knowledge base
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Knowledge Base+: A cloud-based community knowledge base by Ben Showers, JISC. Presentation at the JIBS User Group Workshop and AGM Back to the Future and Into the Cloud, 24 February 2012, School of Oriental and African Studies, London.TRANSCRIPT
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
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