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Some examples of metadata<\/a>, or data that provide information about other data, are familiar in medical publishing. Digital object identifiers (DOI<\/a>), for example, allow easy location of digital content, and are linked to other metadata embedded within an article. This may include tags identifying the title, author, journal and International Standard Serial Number (ISSN<\/a>). Such metadata are used by programs like Altmetric<\/a> to track online activity surrounding a unique publication<\/a>. However, current processes are not allowing the full potential of metadata to be realised in the evolving scholarly communications landscape.<\/p>\n Metadata 2020<\/a> is an international collaboration involving stakeholders from across scholarly communications.<\/p>\n Metadata 2020\u2019s mission involves \u201cadvocating for richer, connected, and reusable, open metadata for all research outputs in order to advance scholarly pursuits for the benefit of society\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This work builds on that of Crossref<\/a>, which facilitates the finding, citing, linking and reuse of research outputs by tagging such content with metadata. In an article in the Journal of Research Ideas and Outcomes<\/em><\/a>, Kathryn Kaiser et al lay out the Metadata 2020 Principles for the use of metadata in scholarly communications.<\/p>\n For metadata to support the community, it should be:<\/p>\n Compatible<\/strong>: provide a guide to content for machines and people.<\/p>\n Complete<\/strong>: reflect the content, components and relationships as published.<\/p>\n Credible<\/strong>: enable content discoverability and longevity.<\/p>\n Curated<\/strong>: reflect updates and new elements.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n These principles aim to shape a common understanding around the metadata needed to support scholarly communications. The authors note that the language of metadata may be specific to a particular discipline, so best practice approaches must allow flexibility in metadata use across communities. In addition, existing metadata standards should be considered and re-used as much as possible to improve the interoperability of different metadata schema, while minimising redundancy.<\/p>\n Applying these principles may also help stimulate further development of ideas and workflows in the scholarly ecosystem. The future work of the Metadata 2020 group will focus on demonstrating the potential benefits of better metadata for stakeholders including researchers, through a set of Metadata Practices.<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n Summary by\u00a0Julianna Solomons PhD, CMPP<\/a> from Aspire Scientific<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n With thanks to our sponsors, Aspire Scientific Ltd<\/a> and NetworkPharma Ltd<\/a><\/p>\n Metadata 2020 set out their principles for use of metadata in scholarly publishing, aiming to achieve richer, reusable, open metadata across research outputs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Metadata in scholarly communications @Metadata2020 #metadata #PubPlan #medcomms #ISMPP","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_publicize_connection_overrides":[],"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[343162383,30399336],"tags":[343162551,343162567,343162410],"class_list":["post-6939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-and-social-media","category-journal-metrics","tag-digital-publishing","tag-metadata","tag-orcid","post-has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/metadata-2020-principles.jpg?fit=727%2C481&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Yk5l-1NV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6939"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6953,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939\/revisions\/6953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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