List of attendees and points made
-> Follow people on Social Media (Followed)
-> Content Ideas for Blog: Decolonising MetaData, LMS and Metadata, Copyright issues in Open Access
-> “Data Wrangling” from publishers end
-> Recommendations for Remodelling the UK Library system: MetaData- https://libraryservices.jiscinvolve.org/wp/files/2020/11/Remodelling-the-UK-Library-Data-Marketplace-Full-slidedeck-PPT-Accessibility-Checked.pdf
From Dominique Babini (CLASCO)
In Latin America:
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Scholarly publishing is mainly scholar-led, non-profit, with no outsourcing to commercial publishers, and no article processing charges (APC) or book processing charges (BPC). Strong tradition of university presses with growing adoption of open access for books
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Open access legislation and policies privilege repositories as the preferred venue for open access to research results. Repositories in Latin America use Dublin-Core open metadata and OAI-PMH protocol for harvesting
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CLACSO´s network 3.200 open access books with Dublin Core open metadata can be harvested (OAI-PMH) from CLACSO´s repository
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Other cases of interest in Latin America are SciELO Books and the The Association of University Presses of Latin America and the Caribbean (EULAC). Both use ONIX open metadata
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Some challenges: advanced training for staff; DOI for individual books and collaborative book chapters; require intermediaries to harvest complete metadata from books; due recognition of books in research assessment procedures; describe peer-review process; develop open access book usage indicators
From Mel Bach (Cambridge University)
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We need to define and agree responsibilities for problematic OA metadata
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We should work towards solutions that prevent problems rather than just resolve them
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Collaboration (publishers, platforms, LMS providers, librarians) is key
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Prioritising OA metadata work is harder for librarians than it should be – the tension between principle and practice
From Christina Drummond (OA eBook Usage Data Trust)
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Like any tool, open metadata can create opportunities for both benefits and harms
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To ensure scholarly freedom, care must be taken to consider the benefits alongside potential ethical risks and disparate impacts that can arise from third party linking and repurposing of open book metadata
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Data collaborative models, like that being piloted in the OA eBook Usage Data Trust, may provide a multi-stakeholder approach to exchanging and stewarding sensitive book metadata alongside open metadata.
From Jennifer Kemp (CrossRef/Metadata2020)
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Metadata matters because it is widely distributed and widely used. Machines are readers too!
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Good metadata is hard. It’s important to recognize the effort it takes to do it well
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Improving the landscape requires broad participation from across the global community and ongoing collaboration