Building Community Infrastructure for Collaborative Metadata Enrichment

For decades, proprietary bibliographic databases have shaped academic visibility – often at the expense of certain regions and disciplines. This has led to a distorted view of global scholarly activity. Today, open data, lower computational costs, and AI progress make more inclusive research infrastructures possible. 

In his lecture “Building Community Infrastructure for Collaborative Metadata Enrichment”, Juan Pablo Alperin, Associate Professor at the Simon Fraser University, introduces COMET, an initiative to build open infrastructure that enables research communities to enrich scholarly metadata collaboratively. 
 
Drawing on the experience of indexing thousands of journals using the “Public Knowledge Project's Open Journal Systems”, this talk will present the proposed approach of COMET – a new initiative that aims to develop an open infrastructure to coordinate and equip the scholarly community to collaboratively enrich scholarly metadata. 

With the right community governance, COMET aims to improve the quality, completeness, and usability of open metadata – laying the foundation for fairer research assessment and global visibility.