If you're attending the #operas2026sciros conference, day 1 will open with workshop 'From OMP to DOAB, via Thoth: Open Collaboration to Amplify Slovenian OA Books' 📢📚🇸🇮
⏰ 9:00, Wed 20 May
📍 Staszic Palace – Room 132
@PublicKnowledgeProject
#DOAB
#OAbooks #openinfrastructures #metadatamatters
🚨 We’re hiring: Knowledge Graph Developer (f/m/d)
📍 Forschungszentrum Jülich
🌐 Build the #Helmholtz Knowledge Graph – connect, model & improve research #metadata across infrastructures.
📅 Apply now
👉 https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/stellenangebote/2026-070
#MetadataMatters #DataEngineering
@fzj @helmholtz @HelmholtzOpenScienceOffice
The Institute for Advanced Simulation – Materials Data Science and Informatics (IAS-9) at Forschungszentrum Jülich works at the intersection of data science, research software engineering and semantic technologies. The research focus area “Metadata and Information Systems” focuses on building practical, reusable information systems that support modern, data-driven science. Our work spans the full spectrum from conceptual metadata modeling and ontology development to hands-on software engineering for research data infrastructures. We are strongly involved in large-scale national initiatives such as the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC), where we shape metadata services and semantic infrastructure to be embedded in scientific workflows and used across disciplines. A core pillar is the Helmholtz Knowledge Graph which connects metadata from infrastructures across Helmholtz and makes it usable for discovery, integration, and analysis. Our goal is not only to build a coherent knowledge graph, but to make it useful, maintainable, and extensible as part of a living research ecosystem.
The @Thoth_metadata team are heading to Heidelberg, Germany for #HMCConference2026
📆 28–30 April 2026
🔎 Explore how metadata creates scientific impact across disciplines and infrastructures!
🔗 https://buff.ly/uQmDvas
#MetadataInAction #MetadataMatters
@helmholtz_hmc
Really excited to share that we’ve published Thoth Open Metadata’s self-assessment against the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). 🎉
For us, this is more than a compliance exercise. It’s an open reflection on how we believe open metadata for books should be governed, sustained, and shared - with community oversight, open-source code, and CC0 data and open APIs at its core. As open access policies evolve, infrastructure transparency matters for publishers, librarians, and policymakers alike. 📚 #MetadataMatters
This work connects directly to the next phase of Thoth’s development - and we’ll be continuing the conversation at the Copim community's #CopimConference tomorrow and on Friday, where we’ll be discussing the future of #communityled #OAbooks and the infrastructure they depend on together with like-minded #openinfras, #libraries, #publishers, and #researchers.
There's no #OpenAccess without #OpenInfrastructure!
With this post, we share the results of our recently-conducted self-assessment of Thoth Open Metadata against the current version v2.0 of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). POSI is an important reference point for us: it articulates important elements of what it means for an infrastructure to be open, community-governed, and sustainable over the long term.
I’ve been documenting this for months (since 28.09.2025). Here’s a quick breakdown of how http://Amazon.de has mishandled Tom Hiddleston’s metadata for over a decade!
https://is.gd/AmazonDEMetadata
#Namesmatter #RespecttheArtist #TomHiddleston #metadatamatters #QAFail #AmazonDE
We are super excited to announce the publication of our substantive report "International Metadata Recommendations and Platform-Specific Requirements for #OABooks and Chapters"
The report addresses a longstanding challenge in #OAbooks publishing: how to create, manage, and disseminate metadata that actually works across today’s fragmented scholarly ecosystem. #MetadataMatters
Bringing together multiple perspectives of not-for-profit #DiamondOA book publishers, librarians, and open infrastructures, the report takes a closer look at research, policy analysis, and community insight to support publishers, libraries, and aggregators working to improve the discoverability, accessibility, and sustainability of books and chapters – with a particular focus on small-to-medium-sized, scholar-led and institutional publishers.
We are pleased to announce the publication of “International Metadata Recommendations and Platform-Specific Requirements for Open Access Books and Chapters”, …
[CATCH UP] @amandaramalho at #FILGuadalajara2025 📚
Hear her insights on @scielo @Thoth_metadata & why open metadata matters — sparking lots of interest from publishers!
Amanda is on the Board of Stewards @openbookcollect & Coordinator of @scielobooks
🎥 Watch now https://buff.ly/XCQwcz0
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Helmholtz Metadata Collab.
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