The Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb): open linked data supporting electronic resources management and scholarly communication

Abstract

The Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb), a partnership between Kuali OLE and Jisc, is an open data repository of information related to e-resources as they are acquired and managed by libraries. Because GOKb tracks change over time – titles, publishers, packages – and can be used to populate other tools with data, it is changing the way that libraries think about the knowledge base. Propagation of authoritative and enhanced data about e-resources has the potential to benefit all actors in the supply chain from publishers to libraries. GOKb can also serve as a platform to explore how open knowledge base data can contribute to the broader scholarly community infrastructure, particularly around open access (OA).

Keywords

• open data
• knowledge base
• electronic resources management
• scholarly communication
• open access