Day/time: May 6, 2025, 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Title: Open Access, Open Metadata, Open Archiving: How to Liberate Metadata Flows across the OA Landscape
Presenters:
- Toby Steiner (he/his), COO, Thoth Open Metadata
- Vincent van Gerven Oei, punctum books & Thoth Open Metadata
- Hannah Hillen, Thoth Open Metadata
Description: Now that open access is rapidly becoming the mainstream mode of publishing scholarly publications, including monographs and edited collections, integrating open metadata management into book production workflows, library cataloging systems, and long-term archiving solutions is gaining importance and urgency.
This workshop will seek to showcase the metadata workflows of a sample of open access library and university publishers from across the globe – including presses from the Netherlands, the UK, the US, Latin America, and Africa – through the usage of Thoth Open Metadata (https://thoth.pub/), a non-profit open source and community-led platform providing innovative metadata management and distribution solutions tailored to tackle the problems of getting open access books and chapters into the book supply chain, ensuring their long-term discoverability, sustainability and accessibility.
We show how fully open and reusable metadata (released under a CC0 dedication) are ingested, managed, and then exported and disseminated to a variety of platforms including, but not limited to, OAPEN, DOAB, the Open Book Collective, JSTOR, and Project MUSE; how DOIs get auto-registered with Crossref for books and chapters alike; and how publications are automatically archived in open repositories such as the Internet Archive and Zenodo through the Thoth Open Archiving Network, a novel, open, transparent and auditable alternative to existing long-term preservation mechanisms.
Following an introductory presentation of these open workflows, we would like to engage participants in an open discussion of the topics raised to learn more about attendants’ backgrounds, needs, and recommendations – with