Deep Dive: The Healthy Metadata Ecosystem
Scope
This conversation explores how the right (and wrong) metadata shape discovery, accessibility, and success—from standards and identifiers to tags, usage, and AI readiness.
Confirmed speakers include Molly Hirst, Data Curation Specialist for Health Sciences, University of Michigan; Andrew Joseph, Digital Publisher, Wits University Press / Colophon; Ed Pentz, Executive Director, Crossref; and Matt Ragucci, Director, Institutional Product Marketing, Wiley. This program will be moderated by Alice Meadows, Independent Consultant and Consultant-at-Large for Open Research Ecosystem Consulting.
Event Sessions
Speakers
Alice Meadows, Independent Consultant and Consultant-at-Large for Open Research Ecosystem Consulting served as the moderator for this program.
The following questions were posed to our speakers:
How would you define healthy metadata and what makes a healthy metadata ecosystem?
What sorts of challenges are there to creating and making healthy metadata available?
What tools are available for improving your metadata?
What role do you see AI playing in ensuring that we have healthy metadata?
Can you share an example of really good, healthy metadata?
What one thing would you like to see fixed? (realistic or visionary)
Related Information and Shared Resources:
RAiD (Research Activity Identifier) - A persistent identifier and global registry for identifying, tracking, and sharing research projects
Lost in transition. Quantifying the funding metadata gap in Crossref - The importance of having funding metadata openly available is widely acknowledged for research transparency and tracking research funding outcomes.
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