About the Webinar
Link resolvers have become an important element of providing access to full-text electronic content and are now ubiquitous in both the library and publishing community. These systems work well enough a majority of the time. However, they are not entirely problem free, and as a result users may not always obtain access to information which their institutions have licensed for them. The management of the large volumes of linking data necessary to support these services is a problem in scale as well as in detail. Several NISO projects have sought to improve the reliability of these systems, including the Knowledgebases and Related Tools (KBART) and Improving OpenURL through Analytics (IOTA) initiatives.
This webinar will highlight these NISO projects and other community initiatives launched to create community-managed knowledge base repositories.
Event Sessions
Introduction
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Building the Global Open Knowledgebase
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The Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb) project aims to develop an open knowledgebase that will describe electronic journals and books, publisher packages, and content hosting platforms as they exist in the academic supply chain. GOKb will fill a new role in the knowledgebase ecosystem by adding several new features: community-maintained data; tracking of changes over time; and linked data that describes e-resources at the level where we really manage them. This presentation will include a brief discussion of the knowledgebase problem space, a look at some features of GOKb, and an update on the current status of the project.
KBART: A Recommended Practice to Increase Accessibility and Discovery
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What we learned about OpenURL in NISO’s IOTA Initiative
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Additional Information
- Registration closes at 12:00 p.m. (ET) on May 14, 2014. Cancellations made by May 7, 2013 will receive a refund, less a $25 cancellation. After that date, there are no refunds.
- Registrants will receive detailed instructions about accessing the webinar via e-mail the Monday prior to the event. (Anyone registering between Monday and the close of registration will receive the message shortly after the registration is received, within normal business hours.) Due to the widespread use of spam blockers, filters, out of office messages, etc., it is your responsibility to contact the NISO office if you do not receive login instructions before the start of the webinar.
- If you have not received your Login Instruction email by 10:00 a.m. (ET) on the Tuesday before the webinar, at please contact the NISO office or email Juliana Wood, Educational Programs Manager at jwood@niso.org for immediate assistance.
- Registration is per site (access for one computer) and includes access to the online recorded archive of the webinar. You may have as many people as you like from the registrant's organization view the webinar from that one connection. If you need additional connections, you will need to enter a separate registration for each connection needed.
- If you are registering someone else from your organization, either use that person's e-mail address when registering or contact the NISO office to provide alternate contact information.
- Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free webinar connection as part of their membership and DO NOT need to register for the event for this free connection. Your webinar contact will receive the login instructions the Monday before the event. You may have as many people as you like from the member's library view the webinar from that one connection. If you need additional connections beyond the free one, then you will need to enter a paid registration (at the member rate) for each additional connection required.
- Webinar presentation slides and Q&A will be posted to the site following the live webinar.
- Registrants and LSA member webinar contacts will receive an e-mail message containing access information to the archived webinar recording within 48 hours after the event. This recording access is only to be used by the registrant's or member's organization.