As we found during the life of Copim, there is often a perception that OA books have lower quality metadata. One problem here is that the supply chain was not designed for OA titles (e.g. dealing with a 0 in the price field).
Poor metadata has wide ranging negative effects on books. Even if the metadata is made open by the publisher, commercial intermediaries further down the chain can limit access.
The metadata pipeline for OA books. Sharing between stakeholders depends on their commercial or other relationships
A new open metadata system is needed to support Diamond OA, maintained by community stewardship not bought and sold by commerical intermediaries.
A key finding so far is that there is poor use of DOIs, and non-standardised fields and spellings can be problematic. Tools are being developed to address these.
Thoth both repairs these blockages and offers alternative pipelines for metadata to flow through
The next speaker is Emma Booth, Metadata Manager for Content Management at University of Manchester Library