Let the Metadata Wars Begin
Todd A Carpenter,
The Scholarly Kitchen,
Jun 23, 2022
This article is ostensibly about the efforts of Clarivate to break what it calls OCLC's (think Dublin Core) "monopoly" over publication metadata. It feels like an argument for a commercial system rather than a more open and public system. But I can't be certain; there's a lot of obfuscation in the article. But one thing is true: "The availability of open citations, the discussions about open identifiers for institutions, and the questions around open infrastructure all hinge around the ecosystem of data — who controls it, and what can be done with the data once it is aggregated." All of this, to me, creates an argument for open data. But I'm sure some - commercial publishers, say - will disagree.
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