Tracking and tracing the scholarly record through metadata, 2 (Presentation Slides)

Tracking and tracing the scholarly record through metadata, 2 Alice Meadows, MoreBrains Cooperative

When delivering products to consumers, manufacturers must track and trace their movement throughout the supply chain to demonstrate quality controls and promptly report any issues with those products should they arise. Similarly, as purveyors of information, journal editors must monitor and record the movement of manuscripts throughout the peer review and publication process and report any updates made to the scholarly record. Robust metadata is critical to those efforts. During this session, we'll explore ways academic journals can leverage metadata for research quality assurance and emerging opportunities, including the role of metadata as trust signals and ways publishers can leverage key open infrastructure to create metadata records.

Alice Meadows is a co-founder of the MoreBrains Cooperative, a consulting organization that specializes in — and supports the values of — open research. Her career has spanned both scholarly publishing (at Blackwell Publishing and then Wiley) and research infrastructures (at ORCID and NISO). Alice is actively involved in the scholarly communications community, including as President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing in 2021-22 and as a contributor to The Scholarly Kitchen. She is passionate about the need for a robust and open global research infrastructure (with a particular interest in metadata and workflows) and about improving diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in scholarly communications and society at large.