2018 Charleston Library Conference

In the library community, there have been many efforts to obtain consistency regarding metadata principles, schema, and standards. However, even though much of this work has been robust and thorough, it has primarily been undertaken as by the library community. Communication and collaboration with other communities in scholarly communications will ensure that these efforts are useful and effective more broadly.


Metadata 2020 is a collaboration of over 120 librarians, publishers, service providers, data publishers and repositories, researchers and funders. We have joined forces to address multiple challenges with metadata in scholarly communications, including the need for shared best practices and principles, mapping between schema, assessing metadata evaluation tools, creating a common list of metadata definitions for widespread use across scholarly communications, and communicating incentives for metadata improvements to multiple communities.


In this session, we will outline the work undertaken to date by some of the six Metadata 2020 projects, highlighting challenges and requesting feedback and help in some areas. We will demonstrate areas in which they we have worked to achieve consistency across communities, and test some of these approaches with Charleston delegates to further assess how they resonate with the communities in attendance.