The Open Library Foundation has been established to promote open source projects for libraries and to foster and support contribution, distribution, and sustainability of the benefits of these projects. The foundation provides the infrastructure for librarians, developers, designers, service providers, and vendors to collaborate with innovative open source technologies and develop transformative solutions for libraries.

via : http://librarytechnology.org/news/pr.pl?id=21867

C'est la fondation qui soutient désormais FOLIO, OLE et GOKb

Projet pour la création d'une Knowledgebase ouverte, en partenariat avec Kuali OLE, JISC et quelques autres.

At its core, GOKb is a knowledge base that will describe electronic journals and books, publisher packages, and platforms in a way that will be familiar to librarians who have worked with electronic resources. GOKb aims to go further by introducing several improvements to the standard set of knowledge base metadata. The enhanced data model will track changes over time, including publisher take-overs and bibliographic changes, and an expanded set of identifiers.

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The data found in GOKb will be made freely available to libraries, academic publishers, library service providers, and the public using a web-based interface and APIs. It will include a co-referencing servce that will allow users to crosswalk data between systems and sets of identifiers. In addition to serving the community, open data offers practical benefits, including improved accuracy resulting from the expertise of many contributors and a dataset that is not tied to any one commercial product.

C'est un projet important, parce que la Knowledgebase permet de savoir comment accéder à telle ou telle revue scientifique, à tel ou tel article, dans le contexte des abonnements d'une institution particulière. Et actuellement, les vendeurs de logiciels commerciaux ont une capacité de négociation avec les éditeurs commerciaux de publications scientifiques qui est au-delà de celle des projets open source ou libres. D'autant plus quand les vendeurs et les éditeurs commerciaux sont dans le même groupe...

voir aussi : http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/charleston/2014/Tech/10/ (notes : https://id-libre.org/notes/doku.php?id=lectures:bring-gokb-to-life )

et encore : http://insights.uksg.org/article/10.1629/uksg.217/

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