Organizers

California Digital Library, DataCite, and Public Knowledge Project, partner to organize and provide the overarching strategy and initial resourcing for COMET. They work together to facilitate participation from individuals and organizations to ingest, curate, govern, and integrate metadata enrichments from a variety of contributors. This team is responsible for the strategic direction, project initiation and management, partnership development, documentation, and community outreach.

Representatives from each organization form the COMET Organizer group:

John Chodacki

California Digital Library

Maria Gould

DataCite / ROR

Juan Pablo Alperin

Public Knowledge Project

Advisors

A dedicated team of advisors will be closely involved with enrichment projects and/or will take an active role in COMET’s strategic or governance, as project teams actively advance COMET’s strategic and technical developments.

Adam Buttrick

California Digital Library, COMET Technical Lead

Dione Mentis

DataCite, COMET Project Lead

Clare Dean

Community Outreach Manager

Community

None of this work can happen without COMET’s community supporters, many of which are COMET’s former task force participants and who helped shape COMET’s direction during its initial phases. COMET’s supporters will have regular opportunities to contribute to existing projects or recommend new projects or activities through Community Calls; and to explore COMET’s projects in detail and give input at key strategic stages.

The 2024 - 2025 Taskforce

  • Isabel Abedrapo Rosen

    Universidad Central de Chile

  • Elizabeth Agee

    US DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

  • Juan Pablo Alperin

    Simon Fraser University/Public Knowledge Project

  • John Aspler

    Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)

  • Fred Atherden

    eLife

  • Adam Buttrick

    California Digital Library

  • Matt Buys

    DataCite

  • Amélie Church

    Sorbonne University

  • Yvonne Campfens

    OA Switchboard

  • John Chodacki

    California Digital Library

  • Kyle Demes

    ourresearch

  • Britta Dreyer

    DataCite

  • Nikoline Dohm Lauridsen

    Research Portal Denmark - NORA (National Open Research Analytics) 

  • Nancy Fallgren

    National Library of Medicine

  • Rupert Gatti

    Thoth Open Metadata

  • Maria Gould

    DataCite / ROR

  • Ted Habermann

    Metadata Game Changers

  • Melissa Harrison

    EMBL-EBI

  • Ricardo Hartley Belmar

  • Hannah Hillen

    Metadata & Publisher Outreach Specialist, Thoth Open Metadata

  • Kristi Holmes

    Northwestern University

  • Jackson Huang

    Educopia

  • Cristina Huidiu

    Wageningen University & Research Library

  • Katerina Janderova

    Czech Academy of Sciences, Library

  • Eric Jeangirard

    French Ministry of Higher Education and Research

  • Jamaica Jones

    University of Pittsburgh; CKAN

  • Anne L'Hôte

    French Ministry of Higher Education and Research

  • Tilo Mathes

    Research Space / RSpace

  • Remedios Melero

    Spanish National Research Council

  • Carole Melzac

    ABES France

  • Daniel Nüst

    Technische Universität Dresden | NFDI4Earth, KOMET

  • Priyanka Ojha

    Amsterdam UMC

  • Colin Orian

    Dalhousie University

  • Bhavesh Patel

    FAIR Data Innovations Hub, California Medical Innovations Institute

  • Silvio Peroni

    OpenCitations / University of Bologna

  • Nici Pfeiffer

    Center for Open Science

  • Mark Phillips

    University of North Texas Libraries

  • Vaida Plankytė

    RSpace

  • Iratxe Puebla

    Make Data Count

  • Maria Praetzellis

    California Digital Library

  • Sheila Rabun

    Lyrasis

  • Eric Olson

    Center for Open Science

  • Howard Ratner

    CHORUS

  • Poppy Riddle

    Dalhousie University

  • Carly Robinson

    US DOE

  • Cody Ross

    DataCite

  • Mogens Sandfær

    Research Portal Denmark / National Open Research Analytics

  • Eric Schares

    Iowa State University

  • Lisa Schiff

    California Digital Library, University of California Office of the President

  • Arjan Schalken

    UKB / Dutch consortium

  • Paul Shannon

    eLife, Sciety and The Kotahi Foundation

  • Arthur Smith

    American Physical Society

  • Stephan Stahlschmidt

    German Centre of Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)

  • Toby Steiner

    Thoth Open Metadata

  • Nees Jan van Eck

    Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University

  • Dave Vieglais

    University of Kansas

  • Tim Vines

    DataSeer

  • Tina von Raesfeld

    Public Library of Science (PLOS)

  • Joe Wass

    Pardalotus Technology

  • Simon Willemin

    ETH Zurich