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!

https://doi.org/10.70950/sllm9969

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.

https://copim.pub/new-report-published-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

#FIL2025 #MetadataMatters

DatAasee - A Metadata-Lake for Libraries

https://ulbmuenster.github.io/dataasee

#WeLoveMetadata because #MetadataMatters

#DatAasee #MetadataLake #Metadata #Metadaten

Congratulations to Noyam Journals for receiving a Crossref Metadata Award as part of our 25th anniversary celebrations.

ICYMI, in our interview, Naa Kai Amanor-Mfoafo shared: "We prioritise inclusion of ORCID IDs, Abstracts, and References as these increase visibility of our articles."

Read about their metadata practices: https://doi.org/10.64000/v2v2s-r9037?mtm_campaign=blog%20post&mtm_source=MS&mtm_medium=social&mtm_cid=10.64000%2Fv2v2s-r9037

#MetadataMatters #OpenScience #Crossref

Join @Thoth_metadata @PublicKnowledgeProject at the 20th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing TODAY!

🖊️ Moving beyond closed silos: liberating workflows based on open metadata to bring about an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for open access books and chapters
⏰ 12:00-12:10
🔗 https://buff.ly/3BX2Ahl

#Munin2025 #OpenMetadata #MetadataMatters #OpenAccess #OpenData