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28th September, 2011. Wellcome Trust

Shared Academic Knowledge Base Plus (KB+)Ben Showers

Agenda...11.30am – Mapping the landscape Outline of the context surrounding the recently funded shared subscription resource management service; what JISC and related work does it relate to and how does it change the current library systems landscape? 11.45am – Establishing a shared Knowledge Base for subscription resource management (Liam)Update on the HEFCE funded shared subscription resource management service being led by JISC Collections; outline of the vision and a discussion of issues including the business model, timescales and governance. 12.15pm – Opportunity for questions and discussion 12.45pm – Lunch 1.15pm – Question and Answer Session (Led by Liam)How could institutions contribute? What would you like to see as part of future developments for the service? 2.30pm – What happens next...? (Liam)What will happen as a result of this workshop? How will institutions be kept up to date as things develop? How can institutions make a contribution to the service now? 3pm – Finish

The aims of today...

Update on the progress of the shared academic knowledge base project

Surface and share some of the questions, concerns and ideas you may have about the project and the management of electronic resources in general

To let you know what will be happening next with the project and how you can get involved if you would like.

Context to the project

A brief 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

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

Some of this work impacts directly on the knowledge base (KB+)

landscape

Commercial Knowledge Bases

E-journal archivingA UK wide approach to preserving and accessing back collections of e-journals

DiscoveryEnabling the development of innovative resource discovery services for library,

archive and museum content

EbooksExploring the impact of ebook provision and usage on library

services

Entitlement RegistryProviding authoritative records of

entitlement

Open Library Environment (OLE)Community-source library

management system

KBARTKnowledge Bases And Related

Tools working group

TERMsTechniques for electronic resource

management: Codifying ERM

V

JUSPUsage statistics

Some of this work is part of the Base Plus (KB+) development

Knowledge Base Plus

Entitlement registry/Pecan

Suncat

License Comparison tool

PEPRSJournal Usage Statistics

Commercial Vendors/knowledge

bases

Community effort

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

Many thanks to Andy McGregor for inspiring the design of these slides.