Help us improve the quality of metadata for research.
Read what some Metadata 2020 supporters are saying.
Well-formed and well thought out metadata that is applied against standards is something that can be the backbone for infrastructure for all of scholarly communications.
Richer metadata should be a high priority for all publishers and stakeholders. It's not an operational issue but a strategic priority, for the research community and also for increased visibility and usage of content.
Everyone benefits from better discoverability. Make the content easier to find and disambiguate. As the metadata gets richer the more you can do with it, so it just gets better and better.
Like a lot of these things, the 'why' is complicated because it's a collective benefit. It's layers upon layers. The value of metadata is that it's in the hands of the community, in that it's in the control of many.
Richer metadata fuels discovery and innovation. Connected metadata bridges the gaps between systems and communities. Reusable, open metadata eliminates duplication of effort. When we settle for inadequate metadata, none of this is possible and everyone suffers as a consequence.