Panel Discussion: COMET: Building a Community-Driven Future for Collaborative Metadata Enrichment
Location
School of Law Seminar Room 3.09
Start Date
3-6-2026 5:00 PM
End Date
3-6-2026 6:00 PM
Description
Metadata powers discovery, attribution, assessment, and reuse across the research lifecycle. Yet many important research connections remain fragmented across repositories, publisher systems, PID infrastructures, institutional workflows, and other disconnected parts of the scholarly ecosystem. As a result, metadata enrichment efforts are often duplicated, siloed, difficult to verify, or dependent on closed systems.
COMET (Collaborative Metadata Enrichment - cometadata.org) is an emerging community initiative exploring how scholarly infrastructures can support more open, distributed, and collaborative approaches to metadata enrichment. Rather than treating enrichment as the responsibility of any single platform or organization, COMET is investigating shared models for contributing, exchanging, validating, and reusing metadata assertions across the research ecosystem.
This session will introduce the COMET initiative and share work completed to date, including early architectural concepts, community discussions, and exploratory work around assertion exchange, provenance, trust, and collaborative curation workflows. Speakers from the California Digital Library and COMET will discuss how persistent identifiers, interoperable infrastructure, and open metadata pipelines can help improve metadata quality and strengthen connections between research outputs, people, organizations, and funders.
The session will also highlight open questions and areas for community participation as COMET continues to evolve. Attendees interested in metadata quality, open infrastructure, PID ecosystems, and collaborative stewardship models will be invited to contribute ideas, feedback, and potential future collaborations.
Panel Discussion: COMET: Building a Community-Driven Future for Collaborative Metadata Enrichment
School of Law Seminar Room 3.09
Metadata powers discovery, attribution, assessment, and reuse across the research lifecycle. Yet many important research connections remain fragmented across repositories, publisher systems, PID infrastructures, institutional workflows, and other disconnected parts of the scholarly ecosystem. As a result, metadata enrichment efforts are often duplicated, siloed, difficult to verify, or dependent on closed systems.
COMET (Collaborative Metadata Enrichment - cometadata.org) is an emerging community initiative exploring how scholarly infrastructures can support more open, distributed, and collaborative approaches to metadata enrichment. Rather than treating enrichment as the responsibility of any single platform or organization, COMET is investigating shared models for contributing, exchanging, validating, and reusing metadata assertions across the research ecosystem.
This session will introduce the COMET initiative and share work completed to date, including early architectural concepts, community discussions, and exploratory work around assertion exchange, provenance, trust, and collaborative curation workflows. Speakers from the California Digital Library and COMET will discuss how persistent identifiers, interoperable infrastructure, and open metadata pipelines can help improve metadata quality and strengthen connections between research outputs, people, organizations, and funders.
The session will also highlight open questions and areas for community participation as COMET continues to evolve. Attendees interested in metadata quality, open infrastructure, PID ecosystems, and collaborative stewardship models will be invited to contribute ideas, feedback, and potential future collaborations.