Do More

Do More

Sign the pledge!

Join over 100 organizations and 170 individuals in signing the metadata pledge. Show your commitment to support richer metadata in your community. View the pledge to see who has signed.

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OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO...

Spread the word about metadata

Use these resources on your website, presentations, blog posts and more to spread the word about richer metadata. By including references to metadata, you help to increase awareness of the importance of metadata and help others to find specific actions that they can take.

Join a working group

Help solve one of the “Big Problems”. Collaborate with other groups and organizations that are doing work with Metadata to ensure that our combined efforts lead to the greatest impact.

negotiate metadata in contracts

What’s the best way to ensure that you have access to important metadata for the scholarly resources that you use? Negotiate open metadata into your resource contracts! Find resources to get the information you need.

contribute a use case

Consider your own use cases for metadata. Where are you a CONTRIBUTOR? CUSTODIAN? CURATOR? CONSUMER? Review other use cases to see where there are overlaps. Share your use cases to help others visualize metadata uses.

educate yourself about metadata

What does richer metadata look like and how can we effect it? Explore articles, scholarly papers, presentations. and other resources to better understand specific challenges, complexities, and opportunities in affecting change in metadata content, practices, and processes.