Keynote Panel: Collaborative Production of Authoritative Metadata

Starts at: Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 09:00 GMT+2
Finishes at: Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 10:30 GMT+2
Venue: Auditorium
Moderator: Sam Oh

Collaborative Production of Authoritative Metadata

Traditional approaches to metadata for scholarly resources place a premium on quality, authority and provenance. These longstanding approaches deliberately limit metadata production to select individuals and institutions who serve as both metadata source and metadata authority. However new socio-technical opportunities for collaborative production of authoritative metadata are beginning to emerge. Perhaps best exemplified by Wikipedia / Wikidata, research institutions can now collaboratively produce, update and rely on linked open data for authoritative scholarly metadata. This session will focus on two emerging projects, Blue Core and COMET, that are designed to transcend the limits of traditional metadata structures while retaining their quality and authority.

Dione Mentis

DataCite
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Dione Mentis is responsible for project coordination on DataCite’s metadata enrichment activities and collaborations, including COMET. Prior to DataCite, Dione served as COO and Senior Architect at the Coko Foundation, where she led large-scale, open-source development projects for NCBI (NIH) and BioInteractive (HHMI), as well as Coko community book publishing platforms. Her background includes extensive experience in the publishing sector both globally and locally in South Africa.

Simeon Warner

Cornell University
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Simeon Warner is the Associate University Librarian and Director of IT at Cornell University. His responsibilities include IT operations, user experience, web programming, digital preservation, and open scholarly publishing. He has a particular interest in interoperability between information systems and the development of standards and collaborations to facilitate that. Warner’s current work includes digital preservation (OCFL), the FOLIO library services platform, linked open data (LD4L/LD4P), image and A/V interoperability (IIIF), and open access repositories.

Tom Cramer

Stanford University
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Tom Cramer is the Chief Technology Strategist, Associate University Librarian & Director of Digital Library Systems & Services for the Stanford University Libraries. He directs the technical development and delivery of Stanford’s digital library services, including digitization, preservation, discovery and access to digital resources, as well as the LOCKSS program. He is the President of the Open Library Foundation, founder of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), co-founder of Blue Core and the ai4lam, LD4 and Samvera communities.

Kalliopi Mathios

Stanford University
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Kalliopi Mathios is the Authorities & Entity Management Librarian at Stanford University, where she advances linked open data initiatives within the Stanford community and beyond. She is the Product Owner and Project Manager for the Sinopia linked data editor and the Blue Core project. She serves as Co-Convener of the PCC Sinopia Cataloging Affinity Group, Chair of the LD4 Steering Committee, and Chair of the BIBFRAME Interoperability Group. She actively participates in the FOLIO Linked Open Data Special Interest Group, the Share-VDE UX/UI Working Group, and the AI4LAM Metadata Working Group.

Moderator

Sam Oh

Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
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Sam Oh is a distinguished professor for global affairs at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, and an affiliate professor at University of Washington iSchool. HIS expertise spans data modeling, metadata design, and ontology design. With funded projects and consultancy for various companies and government sectors, he held leadership roles such as a chair of iSchools, had tenure chairing both TC46/SC9 (Identification & Description) and ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 (Document Description and Processing Languages). He is the executive director of Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), the ambassador of iSchools, and chairs TC46/SC4 (Technical Interoperability).