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People-Powered Metadata: Building a Community of Curators with OpenOrgs

Authors: Končić, Ivana; Žugaj, Martina; Macan, Bojan;

People-Powered Metadata: Building a Community of Curators with OpenOrgs

Abstract

Organisational identity is essential for making research outputs easier to find, cite, and reuse. However, inconsistent metadata continues to be a problem across scholarly communication systems. Without reliable metadata about research organisations, outputs risk being misattributed, overlooked, or undervalued. OpenOrgs, a service in the OpenAIRE ecosystem, addresses this issue by disambiguating, structuring, and improving metadata about research organisations. While automation can scale detection, only a community of expert curators can ensure metadata truly reflects the complex and evolving research landscape. At the heart of OpenOrgs is a growing community of curators - over one hundred experts from 60 countries - from national experts to the central Curation Board. To date, they have edited and approved more than 102.000 institutional records. Together, they maintain and improve the quality of organisational metadata. Curators work includes resolving conflicts, merging duplicate records, enriching metadata, and setting up parent–child hierarchies that reflect institutional structures. This guarantees that records are maintained accurately, remain up-to-date, and meaningful within the wider research system.

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Metadata, Creating and sustaining communities for curation support and development, Effective training for delivering curation knowledge and skills, OpenOrgs, Curators, Training, Orginisations

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popularity
This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network.
BIP!Popularity provided by BIP!
influence
This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).
BIP!Influence provided by BIP!
impulse
This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network.
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