High Quality Metadata As Collective Responsibility

Of Interest to the Information Community

Establishing the context of the article:

On August 3, 2024, at the FORCE11 conference in Los Angeles, the University of California Curation Center (UC3) hosted the first in what will be a series of discussions about community enrichment of DOI metadata: why we need it, how to do it, and who would like to be involved. As part of the California Digital Library (CDL), UC3 is an established leader in collaborative, open infrastructure and persistent identifier (PID) projects.

The article by Adam Buttrick, Senior Product Manager for Persistent Identifiers for the California Digital Library (CDL), is subsequently broken out into the following sections:

• Collaborative Infrastructure as a Shared Source of Truth
• Enriching Metadata in Service-level Silos Creates Inefficiencies and Disconnects
• A More Comprehensive Form of Research Information Can Be Achieved Through Diverse and Consensus-Based Descriptions
• Empowering the Community to Validate and Improve Metadata
• New Systems for Enrichment Should Be Open, Reproducible, Scalable, and Technically Sound
• Enrichment Systems Require Shared Standards and Provenance Information
• Moving Forward Together

The full text of Adam's post is worth reading. The information community will ensure its best success if participants come together to develop the necessary metadata as part of the next generation of enriched information services.