Center for Open Metadata
OMLOS
Open Metadata; Libraries & Open Science
An international symposium at the National Library of Korea will be held May 12-13, 2025.
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Making open metadata the global norm
Metadata, the data about data, is critical to open science, innovation, and information services. We focus on making metadata that is legally open, free from access and reuse restrictions, which is essential to 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
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Questions? Contact omlos2025@lists.stanford.edu