Dear all,
GOKb, the Global Open Knowledgebase, is a community-managed project that
aims to describe electronic journals and books, publisher packages, and
platforms in a way that will be familiar to librarians who have worked with
electronic resources. I thought the LIS-E-Resources list would be a good
place to circulate some information about GOKb, as I know there are a lot
of people here with an interest in ERM who might like to have a look at our
data and provide feedback.
You can sign up for an account and access the web application at
https://gokb.kuali.org/gokb/. You can also use this site to browse and
search the data currently in GOKb.
Several hundred ejournal packages, and associated information about the
ejournal titles, platforms and organisations have been added to the
knowledgebase over the past few months. Alongside this work of adding
content we have also opened up APIs to interact with the service.
We are interested in:
* Understanding how people would like to use data from GOKb
* Getting some use of the initial services and getting feedback on these
* Getting feedback on other APIs and services people would like to see
The current APIs we support are:
*The ‘Coreference’ service*
The main aim of this API is to provide back a list of identifiers
associated with a title. The service allows you to provide a journal
identifier (such as an ISSN) and get back basic information about the
journal including title and other identifiers associated with the journal
(other ISSNs, DOIs, publisher identifiers etc.).
Documentation:
https://github.com/k-int/gokb-phase1/wiki/Co-referencing-Detail
Access: https://gokb.kuali.org/gokb/coreference/index
* OAI Interfaces*
The main aim of this API is to enable other services to obtain data from
GOKb on an ongoing basis. Information about ejournal packages, titles and
organisations can be obtained via this service
Documentation:
https://github.com/k-int/gokb-phase1/wiki/OAI-Interfaces-for-Synchronization
Access: http://gokb.kuali.org/gokb/oai
* Add/Update API*
This API supports adding and updating data in GOKb. You can add new, or
update existing, Organisations and Platforms. You can add additional
identifiers to Journal titles.
Documentation:
https://github.com/k-int/gokb-phase1/wiki/Integration---Telling-GOKb-about-new-or-corresponding-resources-and-local-identifiers
We also have a *SPARQL endpoint* available on our test service (which
contains test data only). The SPARQL endpoint is at
http://test-gokb.kuali.org/sparql, and a set of example queries are given
at https://github.com/k-int/gokb-phase1/wiki/Sample-SPARQL
Feedback on any/all of this would be very welcome - either to the list for
discussion, or directly to me. We want to make sure we can provide useful
data and services and hope you can help us do this.
Best,
Kristen
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Kristen Wilson
Associate Head, Acquisitions and Discovery
North Carolina State University Libraries
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