Looking Inside the Library Knowledge Vault
Channel: OCLC Research
Date: 2015-08-26

This is a recording of an OCLC Research Works in Progress webinar in which Consulting Software Engineer Bruce Washburn and Software Engineer Jeff Mixter provided an update on how OCLC Research is evaluating the Google Knowledge Vault idea. 

How do we ascertain truth on the web? That’s a question being pursued by researchers at Google who have articulated a flow of data that generates discrete statements of fact from countless web sources, relates those statements to previously assembled stores of knowledge, and fuses these mathematically to identify which statements may be more “truthful” than others. They describe this assembly of scored statements as a “Knowledge Vault.”

As OCLC works with data from library, archive and museum sources, we grapple with the same question and similarly varying data. Though the number of statements made is smaller and there may be fewer conflicts, we benefit by taking a closer look at the Google Knowledge Vault idea, to see how it applies to a vault of library knowledge.
Learn more about this webinar and download the slides at http://oc.lc/knowledge-vault.