Thoth_metadata

Thoth_metadata, 3 days ago to random

We have a new website - and our colleague Hannah has made a video 📼 about it 😀

Together with our developer Javi, Hannah provides an overview of the website's many features, including our beautiful, advanced collective catalogue 😍 📚 Did we already say that we love #OAbooks ?

Next to a walkthrough of the website, there's also a more in-depth overview of what Thoth's backend can do for publishers to help them with creating and managing their metadata ... come over and have a look! #MetadataMatters #openinfras

https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/launch-of-new-thoth-open-metadata-website/release/1

Thoth_metadata, 1 month ago to opensource

Today, the @BarcelonaDORI #BarcelonaDeclaration has been published, and with Thoth Open Metadata we are proud to support it!

We're excited to be joining an ever-growing number of signatories that committ to

✅ working toward making openness the default for research information;
✅ working with services and systems that support and enable open research information;
✅ supporting the sustainability of infrastructures for open research information;
✅ and supporting collective action to accelerate the transition to openness of research information.

In our context, we work hard to make that happen by providing an #opensource platform for small, scholar-led, and university publishers to manage and disseminate fully open #CC0 #metadata for #OAbooks - which is of particular relevance to the #Humanities #SSH!

We also collaborate with like-minded initiatives such as @openbookcollect, @oapenbooks, @doabooks, @PublicKnowledgeProject and many more. #MetadataMatters

https://barcelona-declaration.org/

Thoth_metadata, 3 months ago to poop

In light of the newest lawsuit filed by OCLC, it's important to remember that there is no reason other than commercial interests to lock down book metadata (or any other kind of metadata, for that matter) ...

As Thoth director @vangervenoei writes in one of our earlier blog posts,

"proposals to release metadata in the public domain have [...] encountered resistance from commercial vendors who benefit from a closed metadata ecosystem.

[...] many stakeholders in the scholarly communications chain make significant investments into creating metadata records, and it is perhaps a feature of the current closed and compartmentalized book metadata ecosystem that much of these investments are actually unnecessary double work."

This is why we advocate for fully open, public domain metadata, and all metadata created via Thoth is released under CC0 by default.

#MetadataMatters #OAbooks #remix #openinfra

van Gerven Oei, V. W. J. (2020). Open Metadata in Thoth. https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.eb0d86e8