The Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) Releases Their Community Call to Action

From Upstream (Force11) Post by Adam Buttrick:

The Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) has released a Community Call to Action, inviting organizations and individuals to contribute resources (funding, expertise, metadata, and infrastructure) to support the first phase of a community-driven infrastructure for making persistent identifier (PID) metadata better and more complete.

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COMET was formed in October 2024 in response to discussions at the FORCE2024 Conference in Los Angeles and the Paris Conference on Open Research Information. In this context, stakeholders from across the research ecosystem identified a critical need for collaborative, community-led approaches that improve metadata quality and completeness. After summarizing these discussions on the Upstream blog – High-Quality Metadata: A Collective Responsibility and Opportunity and Advancing Metadata Quality: An Open Call to Collaborate – their conveners moved them into a more formal phase through a call for wider participation in the taskforce. A diverse array of participants from across the research community responded to this call, organizing themselves around the goal of articulating a clear vision for how to make collaborative enrichment of PID metadata a reality.

Learn More, Read the Complete Upstream Post (about 600 words)

See Also: Resource Documents

• Advancing Metadata Quality: An Open Call to Collaborate

• Summary Report COMET Introductory Sessions | November 7, 2024

• Summary Report COMET Product Development Listening Sessions | December 19, 2024

• Summary Report COMET Governance Listening Sessions | January 23, 2025

• Summary Report COMET Implementation Listening Sessions | February 18, 2025

• COMET Participant Composition

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