Hi Adam, It might be helpful for me to clarify that GOKb is a two-year project (not one year as the article states), and our first public release is scheduled for the end of August. We are still in the process of establishing relationships with other knowledge base products, and we are currently developing a partnership model that will allow commercial entities to become data contributors to GOKb. We're hopeful that commercial knowledge base vendors will be interested in contributing elements of their data, particularly proprietary identifiers for packages, titles, and holdings. Having this data in GOKb would allow users to map data across systems, facilitating not just interoperability between GOKb and other knowledge bases, but also between various commercial products. GOKb has been in dialogue with vendors such as EBSCO, ExLibris, OCLC and Serials Solutions to this end.
We're also interested to know what you and the rest of the Code4Lib community think about the potential for GOKb to interoperate with other systems. Are there other ways you'd like to see this put into practice? Best, Kristen Wilson Associate Head, Acquisitions and Discovery GOKb Editor North Carolina State University Libraries 919-513-3354 [email protected] *From: *"Adam L. Chandler" <[email protected]> > *Subject: **[CODE4LIB] Interoperability with GOKB* > *Date: *28 July 2014 19:29:54 BST > *To: *[email protected] > *Reply-To: *Code for Libraries <[email protected]> > > "GOKb is expected to interoperate with other knowledge bases and linking > environments." (* > http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=18671) > > Marshall Breeding made that assertion in September 2013. What evidence > exists to suggest that GOKb will be "interoperable" with the > knowledgebases of Ex Libris, Proquest, ExLibris, and OCLC? > > > Thanks, > > Adam Chandler > Technical Services Automation and User Experience Strategist > Cornell University Library > 107B Olin Library > Ithaca, NY 14853 > 607-255-5760 > [email protected] > https://twitter.com/alc28 > >
