Hello all, HNY!
Apologies for resurrecting this thread after so long. Just by way of a
quick update I've written a new guide to getting a clean/empty KBPlus up
and running on AWS. The docs are here:
https://github.com/k-int/KBPlus/wiki/KBPlus--AWS-Install-Guide and if
anyone wants to have a go at using KBPlus locally I'd be really interested
in feedback. I'm afraid it's a bit technical, and it does go into some
depth on installing the shib auth part, but hopefully it will be of use to
anyone wanting to have a go.
best,
Ian.
Ian Ibbotson
Director
Knowledge Integration Ltd
35 Paradise Street, Sheffield. S3 8PZ
T: 0114 273 8271
M: 07968 794 630
W: http://www.k-int.com
On 21 September 2013 11:54, Ian Ibbotson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Heya all (Owen)
>
> I'm working on the codebase owen discusses here, so if anyone wants to
> have a go with it please feel free and to throw questions directly at me.
> Dependency wise for deployment you'll need MySQL, Tomcat and ElasticSearch
> if you want the free text search to work. For build a recent Java7 JDK and
> Grails install. Both projects ultimately compile down to a war deployment,
> so should be pretty compatible with most environments. The lack of a
> license is a total oversight on my part, I'll talk with Owen next week
> about the most appropriate one to use and we'll get the right files up
> there (Suspect APL2.0). Very happy to support anyone trying to have a go
> with the codebase.
>
> Ian.
>
> Ian Ibbotson
> Director
> Knowledge Integration Ltd
> 35 Paradise Street, Sheffield. S3 8PZ
> T: 0114 273 8271
> M: 07968 794 630
> W: http://www.k-int.com
>
>
> On 20 September 2013 22:59, Owen Stephens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I'm involved in the GOKb project, and also a related project in the UK
>> called 'KB+' which is a national service providing a knowledgebase and the
>> ability to manage subscriptions/licences.
>> As Adam said - GOKb is definitely more of a service, although the
>> software could be run by anyone it isn't designed with ERM functionality in
>> mind - but to be able to be a GOKb is a community managed knowledgebase -
>> and so far much of the work has been to build a set of tools for bringing
>> in data from publishers and content providers, and to store and manage that
>> data. In the not too distant future GOKb will provide data via APIs for use
>> in downstream systems.
>>
>> Two specific downstream systems GOKb is going to be working with are the
>> Kuali OLE system (https://www.kuali.org/ole) and the KB+ system
>> mentioned above. KB+ started with very similar ideas to GOKb in terms of
>> building a community managed knowledgebase, but with the UK HE community
>> specifically in mind. However it is clear that collaborating with GOKb will
>> have significant benefits and help the community focus its effort in a
>> single knowledgebase, and so it is expected that eventually KB+ will
>> consume data from GOKb, and the community will contribute to the data
>> managed in GOKb.
>>
>> However KB+ also provides more ERM style functionality available to UK
>> Universities. Each institution can setup its own subscriptions and
>> licenses, drawing on the shared knowledgebase information which is managed
>> centrally by a team at Jisc Collections (who negotiate licenses for much of
>> the content in the UK, among other things). I think the KB+ software could
>> work as a standalone ERMs in terms of functionality, but its strength is as
>> a multi-institution system with a shared knowledgebase. We are releasing
>> v3.3 next week which brings integration with various discussion forum
>> software - hoping we can put community discussion and collaboration at the
>> heart of the product
>>
>> Development on both KB+ and GOKb is being done by a UK software house
>> called Knowledge Integration, and while licenses for the respective code
>> bases have not yet been implemented, both should be released under an open
>> licence in the future. However the code is already on Github if anyone is
>> interested
>> http://github.com/k-int/KBPlus/
>> https://github.com/k-int/gokb-phase1
>>
>> In both cases they are web apps written in Groovy. GOKb has the added
>> complication/interest of also having a Open (was Google) Refine extension
>> as this is the tool chose for loading messing e-journal data into the system
>>
>> Sorry to go on, hope the above is of some interest
>>
>> Owen
>>
>> Owen Stephens
>> Owen Stephens Consulting
>> Web: http://www.ostephens.com
>> Email: [log in to unmask]
>> Telephone: 0121 288 6936
>>
>> On 20 Sep 2013, at 16:26, Karl Holten <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > A couple of months ago our organization began looking at new ERM
>> solutions / link resolvers, so I thought I'd share my thoughts based on my
>> research of the topic. Unfortunately, I think this is one area where open
>> source offerings are a bit thin. Many offerings look promising at first but
>> are no longer under development. I'd be careful about adopting something
>> that's no longer supported. Out of all the options that are no longer
>> developed, I thought the CUFTS/GODOT combo was the most promising. Out of
>> the options that seem to still be under development, there were two options
>> that stood out: CORAL and GOKb. Neither includes a link resolver, so they
>> weren't good for our needs. CORAL has the advantage of being out on the
>> market right now. GOKb is backed by some pretty big institutions and looks
>> more sophisticated, but other than some slideshows there's not a lot to
>> look at to actually evaluate it at the moment.
>> >
>> > Ultimately, I came to the conclusion that nothing out there right now
>> matches the proprietary software, especially in terms of link resolvers and
>> in terms of a knowledge base. If I were forced to go open source I'd say
>> the GOKb and CORAL look the most promising. Hope that helps narrow things
>> down at least a little bit.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Karl Holten
>> > Systems Integration Specialist
>> > SWITCH Consortium
>> > 6801 North Yates Road
>> > Milwaukee, WI 53217
>> > http://topcat.switchinc.org/
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
>> Of Riesner, Giles W.
>> > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 5:33 PM
>> > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source ERM
>> >
>> > Thank you, Peter. I took a quick look at the list and found ERMes
>> there as well as a few others.
>> > Not everything under this category really fits what I'm looking for
>> (e.g. Calibre). I'll look a little deeper.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> >
>> > Giles W. Riesner, Jr., Lead Library Technician, Library Technology
>> Community College of Baltimore County
>> > 800 S. Rolling Road Baltimore, MD 21228
>> > [log in to unmask] 1-443-840-2736
>> >
>> >
>> > ________________________________________
>> > From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Peter
>> Murray [[log in to unmask]]
>> > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 4:44 PM
>> > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source ERM
>> >
>> > I don't know about ERMes specifically, but wanted to point out that
>> FOSS4Lib has 12 packages of various sorts in the "Electronic Resource
>> Management" category:
>> >
>> > https://foss4lib.org/package-type/electronic-resource-management
>> >
>> >
>> > Peter
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sep 19, 2013, at 2:46 PM, "Riesner, Giles W." <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> One of our Librarians saw an article about ERMes, an open source ERM
>> >> from the University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse
>> >>
>> >> (http://murphylibrary.uwlax.edu/erm/) , and was asking about the
>> possibility of our using it.
>> >>
>> >> If you're using it and wouldn't mind us picking your brain a little
>> bit on it, please contact me off list .
>> >>
>> >> That said, if you have experience with any other open source ERM
>> >> systems and wouldn't mind sharing some information
>> >>
>> >> about them, I'm happy to hear about them as well.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Giles W. Riesner, Jr., Lead Library Technician, Library Technology
>> >> Community College of Baltimore County
>> >> 800 S. Rolling Road Baltimore, MD 21228
>> >> [log in to unmask] 1-443-840-2736
>> >
>> > --
>> > Peter Murray
>> > Assistant Director, Technology Services Development LYRASIS
>> [log in to unmask]
>> > +1 678-235-2955
>> > 800.999.8558 x2955
>>
>
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