December 2019
Metadata 20/20 was an international, community-led initiative bringing together researchers, publishers, librarians, funders, data repositories, and service providers around a shared goal: richer, more connected, more reusable, and more open metadata for all research outputs. The outcomes page collects the full set of deliverables from the initiative’s three phases.
Understand why richer metadata is a community problem — and a community opportunity. The principles and use cases that make the case for investing in metadata quality across the scholarly ecosystem.
Know what good metadata practice looks like for your role. Personas across six stakeholder communities — researchers, publishers, librarians, funders, data repositories, and platforms — clarify what each group needs from metadata and what each can contribute.
Apply the practices, evaluation frameworks, and best practices guidance. Concrete implementation guidance drawn from a multi-stakeholder survey (211 responses from 23 countries), a peer-reviewed literature review, and a 2019 workathon.
