COMET is now a FORCE11 Working Group
By Clare Dean, Adam Buttrrick, John Chodacki, Maria Praetzellis, and Juan Pablo Alperin.
We’re excited to share that the Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) is now an official FORCE11 Working Group. We are so grateful for FORCE11’s support as the Taskforce continues its discussions and develops its Community Call to Action. COMET’s approach to community-led change and underlying principles are in alignment with FORCE11 in their mission to improve research practices by supporting innovation in the ways knowledge and scholarly outputs are created and shared. We’re delighted to join them!
The Working Group is led by Clare Dean (Community Outreach Manager), John Chodacki (Convener) and Adam Buttrick (Convener.) As articulated on the COMET website, the focus of our work is:
Summary
COMET is a collaborative initiative designed to enhance the completeness, consistency, and interoperability of metadata across the research information ecosystem. By prioritizing openness and inclusivity, COMET will establish a curation model that facilitates a wide range of stakeholders to collectively enrich metadata. We respect persistent identifiers (PIDs) and their associated metadata as important shared sources of information and are committed to working closely with existing PID infrastructures. In all of its work, our model will emphasize responsible, equitable, and transparent practices that adhere to community-led governance standards. Unlike existing approaches that often create silos of information, COMET’s model will democratize metadata creation while promoting shared accountability and collaboration. Through actionable frameworks and tools, our model will distribute the workload across stakeholders, reducing the burden on individual creators while advancing open scholarship with enriched metadata as a reliable foundation.
Goals
We aim to bring together metadata experts and open infrastructure advocates to harness the collective expertise of the research community to transform how we exchange enriched research metadata.
Deliverables
Collaboratively define the scope and aims of a model where the community enriches persistent identifier (PID) metadata
Articulate shared problems and ways to work toward the solution
Create documentation for a Call for Action to help us reach these solutions
You can find the details on the Working Group webpage. Get in touch if you’re interested in participating.