GOKb article in American Libraries by Kristen Wilson

In one hand you have the dream of a free, online, centralized knowledge base. In the other hand, you have Wikipedia. Can't we bring these things together? If so, it might look like the Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb). "The [GOKb] aims to provide a fully open, community-managed dataset that describes electronic journals and books and their relationships," writes Kristen Wilson, Associate Head, Acquisitions and Discovery (Serials), in an American Libraries article. "The three major ambitions for the GOKb project are improving data quality and workflows, enhancing the knowledge base by tracking new types of metadata and changes over time, and encouraging interoperability between systems." Wilson, who has been a principal investigator on the GOKb project for the past two years, touches upon its political and structural challenges and points to other projects with similar visions such as Knowledge Base+ and the Electronic Resources Database.