Center for Open Metadata
DCMI Open Metadata Clinic
Stanford University is organizing an Open Metadata Clinic event, which will be held in conjunction with DCMI 2025.
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Making open metadata the global norm
Metadata, the data about data, is critical to research, education and cultural heritage. We focus on making metadata legally open, free from access and reuse restrictions, in order to promote a healthy, global information ecosystem.
Scope
Barriers to metadata use and reuse impede innovation, increase friction and frustrate delivery of effective services. Legal interoperability is a key factor in enabling reusability of metadata for:
- articles
- books
- citations
- code
- cultural heritage
- data sets
- ...and more
Areas of Study
The Center for Open Metadata addresses issues around the generation and reuse of these types of metadata from many facets:
- Copyright
- Contracts
- Economic / sustainability models
- Research infrastructures & persistent identifiers (PIDs)
- Policy
- Provenance
- Workflows related to creation, enrichment, distribution, transformation and reuse