The “nested triangle” of metadata supply for OA books 2-NISO Plus

Abstract

Academic librarians want to make research outputs, including Open Access books, fully discoverable to their users and communities in order to develop open and responsible research environments. The key to enabling this is high quality metadata that can be ingested into a variety of content management systems and online discovery interfaces.

Libraries source OA book metadata via content aggregators, library system providers (e.g. a proprietary knowledge base), or directly from OA book providers/publishers. These supply mechanisms form a nested triangle, as metadata flows from the OA book provider to other stakeholders. The complexity of the scholarly publishing ecosystem and established supply-chains for content procurement and metadata creates barriers that inhibit libraries from making OA books fully discoverable.

These barriers relate to three main areas for OA books:

Lack of readily available high quality metadata
Problems with ingestion and deduplication of metadata
Metadata that is not fully open for sharing and reuse

An OA book provider, a metadata librarian, and an iSchool educator will first briefly examine this “nested triangle” of metadata supply for OA books. They will open the discussion to representatives from content aggregators and library system providers to explore solutions for these barriers.

NISO Discourse Discussion for this session
https://discourse.niso.org/t/the-nested-triangle-of-metadata-supply-for-oa-books/571

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The “nested triangle” of metadata supply for OA books

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Brian O'Leary

Brian O’Leary is executive director of the Book Industry Study Group, a U.S.-based trade association that disseminates information, creates and implements standards and conducts research to benefit the book publishing supply chain. Before being named to this role in 2016, O'Leary was principal of Magellan Media Consulting, which helped publishers improve how they create, manage and distribute content. In that role, O’Leary wrote extensively about issues affecting the publishing industry. With Hugh McGuire, he co-edited Book: A Futurist's Manifesto (O'Reilly Media, 2012). O’Leary served as senior VP with Hammond Inc. and oversaw production and distribution operations at several Time Inc. magazines. O’Leary joined Time Inc. after earning an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He also holds an A.B. in chemistry from Harvard College.

Diane Pennington

Dr. Diane Rasmussen Pennington is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Information Science and the Course Director for the MSc/PgDip in Information and Library Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. She teaches modules in organisation of knowledge, cataloguing, and library systems. Her research areas include library linked data, tagging, metadata quality, and classifying user engagement on social media. She is a member of the Strathclyde iSchool Research Group, in which she leads the Information Engagement research area and belongs to the Interactive Information Retrieval research area. She is the Chair of CILIP’s Metadata and Discovery Group and the Co-Chair of the iSchools Women’s Coalition. She holds an MS and a PhD in information science from the University of North Texas and has earned a PGDip in Academic Practice from the University of Strathclyde.

Emma Booth

Emma Booth is a cataloguer and metadata specialist in the UK Higher Education sector. Her current role as the Metadata Manager for Content Management at the University of Manchester Library involves coordinating the creation and enrichment of bibliographic metadata to support both resource discovery and evidence-based collection development activities.

As a current member of the National Acquisitions Group Executive Committee, and the CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group Committee, Emma is an advocate for ensuring that high-quality, standardised, open metadata is an intrinsic part of academic library content acquisitions supply chains.

Ronald Snijder

Ronald Snijder joined OAPEN in 2011. Since 2008, he has been working on OAPEN - as an EU co-funded project - in his role as project manager digital publications at Amsterdam University Press. Before that, he has worked in several profit and not-for-profit organisations as an IT and information management specialist. He holds a PhD in social sciences.