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Library knowledgebases (kbs) have improved generation by generation, product by product over the last three or four decades. Functionality, completeness, integration with other library systems, and the standardization of useful data elements have all increased particularly via the Knowledgebases and Related Tools (KBART) Recommended Practice (RP), KBART Automation RP, and the upcoming NISO recommendation for package identifiers. However, several more fields and limiters would greatly enhance kbs for staff users. These include additional date fields, indicators for consortia- or region-specific packages, curator/responsible party, and more. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to build upon the research of Brett, the author categorized over three hundred e-resources troubleshooting tickets at The University of Alabama Libraries into a coding scheme originally created by Goldfinger and Hemhauser with the goal of cross-comparing the results with that of two other research libraries. The results of the analysis shed light upon the most commonly reported types of problems among the three institutions, and patterns emerged that could be indicative of industry-wide concerns. The author also developed a more specific, local classification schema in order to identify areas in which local solutions could be implemented to improve user experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Global Open Knowledgebase Project (GOKb) is providing an open, community-based solution to resource metadata curation. The project's success pivots between data accumulation and enhancement, quality control, open data, and community involvement. In the following, participants in the project respond to questions about where GOKb is today, its usefulness in current workflows, and GOKb's future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), like many libraries, recently migrated to a new knowledgebase and integrated library system (ILS) and found they had to clean up a great deal of messy serial title list data. In their search for solutions, they discovered the free, open source tool OpenRefine, a software program specifically designed for data normalization, transformation, and cleaning. This article describes the steps that UNCG used to take a publisher's title list file and transform it into a file format usable by their ILS. In doing so, this article will discuss major types of functionality in OpenRefine: downloading the software, importing data correctly, using the interface, transforming data on a column and cell level, exploring and normalizing data, and exporting files out of OpenRefine. At the end of this article, the readers should understand how to use OpenRefine on a basic level and be able to begin to use it on their own data. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb) is a project to develop and maintain a freely available repository of metadata that describes electronic journals and books using a community-managed approach. In preparation for GOKb's public preview at the end of 2014, the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries launched a pilot to create a partnership model for participating libraries. Based on a presentation at the 2015 North Carolina Serials Conference, Eric Hanson, Xiaoyan Song, and Kristen Wilson from NCSU Libraries share their experiences partnering with GOKb, including the workflows and tools that NCSU has established for contributing to GOKb, opportunities for library and vendor partners, and GOKb's linked data service. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]