DOI: “High-Quality Metadata: A Collective Responsibility and Opportunity”

From an Upstream Article by Adam Buttrick (California Digital Library):

Our community and tools rely on high-quality DOI metadata for building connections and obtaining efficiencies. However, the current model – where improvements to this metadata are limited to its creators or done within service-level silos – perpetuates a system of large-scale gaps, inefficiency, and disconnection. It doesn’t have to be this way. By collaboratively building open, robust, and scalable systems for enriching DOI metadata, we can leverage the work of our community to break down these barriers and improve the state and interconnectedness of research information.

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Building the corpus of DOI metadata over many years has taught our community an important lesson: when we work together to define how infrastructure should exist, how we want to build and improve upon it, we arrive at better outcomes than when we do this work alone. Collective stewardship of our shared sources of truth is what allows us to make the right decisions for as many people as we can.

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Community enrichment of DOI metadata poses significant challenges, but not insurmountable ones. Our initial meeting in Los Angeles reaffirmed the community’s interest in tackling this together, just as we have done with other successful infrastructure initiatives. Through collaboration and use of our shared expertise, we can build a better, more connected system of research information. UC3 will be continuing these critical discussions, and we encourage you to stay engaged with us.

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