Presented by Kristen Wilson and Ben Heet

1. Building the
Global Open Knowledgebase
Kristen Wilson
Ben Heet
Electronic Resources & Libraries
March 19, 2013

2. Outline
Project
recap
OpenRefine
demo
GOKb demo
Partnerships
and
community

3. What is GOKb?
• Open knowledgebase
• Community maintained
• Enhanced data elements
• APIs to interact with data

4. GOKb partners
Kuali OLE
KB+
Subject
matter
experts

5. Project phases
• Data model
• Rules engine (OpenRefine)
• Prototype web application
Phase I
June 2012 - Feb.
2013
• OpenRefine enhancements
• APIs and co-referencing service
• Start the process for real
Phase II
March – July 2013
• Continued enhancements
• Emphasis on what’s needed by Kuali OLE
Phase III
August – Nov. 2013

6. OpenRefine (aka GoogleRefine)
• Open source tool
• Data clean up and manipulation
• Rules engine
• Step 1 of data ingest for GOKb

7. OpenRefine with GOKb extension

8. OpenRefine with GOKb extension

9. OpenRefine with GOKb extension

10. OpenRefine with GOKb extension

11. OpenRefine - Importing a raw file

12. OpenRefine - Importing a raw file

13. OpenRefine - Importing a raw file

14. OpenRefine - Importing a raw file

15. OpenRefine - Importing a raw file

16. OpenRefine - Applying rules

17. OpenRefine - Applying rules

18. OpenRefine - Applying rules

19. OpenRefine - Applying rules

20. OpenRefine - Applying rules

21. OpenRefine - Ingest

22. OpenRefine - Ingest

23. OpenRefine - Ingest

24. OpenRefine - Ingest

25. OpenRefine - Ingest

26. Future OpenRefine development
• Dynamic rules
• Rules library
• Validation screen

27. GOKb WebApp
• Web-based tool
• Validation rules
• Power user data management
• BOM design using familiar Kb layout
• Ingest data from OpenRefine

28. WebApp - Search

29. WebApp - Components

30. WebApp - Components

31. WebApp - Components

32. WebApp - Titles

33. WebApp - Titles

34. WebApp - Packages

35. WebApp - Packages

36. WebApp - Packages

37. WebApp - Platforms

38. WebApp - Platforms

39. WebApp - TIPPs

40. WebApp - TIPPs

41. Future GOKb WebApp developments
• Co-referencing services
• APIs – for ingest and updates
• Data management (edit) within WebApp

42. Co-referencing service
• Building a bridge between data and systems
GOKb
ID
OCLC
number
Vendor
ID
Knowledge
base IDDOI
ISSN

43. WebApp – co-referencing service

44. Receiving updates from GOKb
• Help manage change
Title
transfer
GOKb
update
ILS
update

45. Partnerships and community
• Community
• International organizations
• National knowledgebases
• Vendors
• Standards organizations

46. Partnerships and community
• Roles
• Editor
• OLE partners
• Super users
• Data contributors
Data
contributors
Super users
OLE Partners
Editor

47. Partnerships and community
• Interaction with GOKb
• Availability of data, summer 2013
• Source of information and troubleshooting
tool, end of Phase III
• Wider participation and data contributions, 1-
2 years

48. Questions?
Kristen Wilson
kristen_wilson@ncsu.edu
Ben Heet
ben_heet@ncsu.edu