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Advocacy campaign for richer metadata
A cross-community collaboration
Vision to create common understanding
Express why metadata is so important
Shared messaging & educational resources
#Metadata2020
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“Most people wouldn't think: ‘Well, if we can
fix this metadata we can find a cure for
cancer.’ Nobody is asking: ‘What is the cost to
society?’ If we can find a way to connect
those dots, that would be huge.”
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Steering group
Cameron Neylon
Curtin Univ
Caroline Sutton
Co-Action/Informa
Dario Taraborelli
Wikimedia
Ed Pentz
Crossref
Eva Mendez
UC3M / OSPP / DCMI
Genevieve Early
Taylor & Francis
Ginny Hendricks
Crossref
John Chodacki
California Digital Library
Juan Pablo Alperin PKP
Kristen Ratan
Coko Foundation
Laure Haak / Alice Meadows ORCID
Mark Patterson
eLife
Mike Taylor
Digital
Science
Natalia Manola
OpenAIRE
Patricia Cruse / Laura Rueda DataCite
Roy Tennant
OCLC
Scott Plutchak
U. Alabama
Stefanie Haustein
U. Montreal
Steve Byford
JISC
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Starting Point
We want to facilitate the collaboration of all involved in
scholarly communications to consistently improve
metadata to enhance discoverability, encourage new
services, and create efficiencies, with the ultimate goal of
accelerating scholarly research.
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The problem
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Authors want increased visibility
Researchers need easier reproducibility
Funders and institutions are looking for better performance data;
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Publishers and service-providers need to demonstrate value with
increased usage
We share some metadata, but there is more to be done
None of this is possible when there are gaps in metadata. And
everyone suffers as a consequence.
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A path
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The opportunities are significant and far-reaching.
If we can overcome technical, economic, and social obstacles we will be
able to reuse and remix the metadata to:
• Map interconnections
• Balance consistency and flexibility; and
• Provide a common, distributed resource for all.
The entire scholarly community needs to be on board in order to meet this
ambitious goal.
Everyone has a role to play.
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Some goals
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Raise awareness of the importance of sharing richer metadata.
Educate the community on the role of metadata in making scholarly
content discoverable.
Encourage publishers, aggregators, funders, research institutions, and
service providers to make a public commitment increase the quality
of their metadata.
Equip all stakeholders with tools and information.
Facilitate communication between the stakeholders to encourage
collaboration.
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React to the premise
Give us your ideas
Share your stories
Volunteer to help
Email [email protected] to get involved
Follow @Metadata2020 on twitter and facebook
Website coming soon - Metadata2020.org
Thank you
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Get
Involved!
New support center
support.crossref.org
• comprehensive technical documentation
• create and review support tickets
Product Support
• help members register and maintain
their metadata records
• help everyone else discover and use
metadata records
• 1/3 of all support tickets are related to
metadata quality concerns
More information
• Help documentation: support.crossref.org
• Technical questions: [email protected]
• General questions: [email protected]
• Webinars: crossref.org//webinars
Staying up-to-date
Twitter: @CrossrefOrg and @crossrefsupport
Weibo: Crossref
Blog: crossref.org/blog
Crossref Labs: crossref.org/labs- new and
experimental tools and initiatives
Our truths
• Smart alone, brilliant together
• If you publish, you’re a publisher
• One member, one vote
• Love metadata, love technology
• Politic, not political
• Here today, here tomorrow
Thank you!
Rachael Lammey - [email protected]
Ginny Hendricks - [email protected]