Thread by @EmmaE_B

I'm now joining the #NISOPlus23 session: "Making the business case for investing in metadata" with Josh Brown, Heather Kotula, Michelle Urberg, & Julia McDonell
#Metadata #MetadataMatters #NISOPlus sched.co/1D7pA

The opportunity costs of poor metadata re-use - Josh Brown from @MoreBrains_Coop
PIDs are keystone metadata! - Powering Reuse, Automation, Aggregation & Analysis
#metadata #NISOPlus23

NOT reusing #metadata has costs in money, time and knock-on effects - rekeying of metadata is essentially unnecessary duplication of effort across sectors, institutions and individuals! #NISOPlus23

Brown, Josh, Jones, Phill, Meadows, Alice, Murphy, Fiona, & Clayton, Paul. (2021). UK PID Consortium: Cost-Benefit Analysis (1.0). Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… #metadata #PIDs #NISOPlus23

Brown, Josh, Jones, Phill, Meadows, Alice, & Murphy, Fiona. (2022). Revised cost-benefit analysis for the UK PID Support Network (Version 1). Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… #metadata #PIDs #NISOPlus23

"nearly 55,000 person days, at a cost of £19 million, are wasted every year at UK institutions through the rekeying of metadata that should be automatically transferred between PID registries, and university and funder systems" #NISOPlus23

#NISOPlus23 #Metadata & #Taxonomies enable #KnowledgeStorage & #KnowledgeRetrieval
Saving time & money for the searcher == #TargetedKnowledge

Calculating #ROI for #metadata - we don't always have raw figures available... the return on investment or 'value' of an activity is not necessarily financial!
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Value can be measured through service improvement; a reduction in complaints/problems related to a service.
E.g. Investing in #metadata quality will 'make search better' which means less staff time will be needed to help the searcher find what they are looking for. #NISOPlus23

#Impact of #metadata for #ResearchOutputs - in this case #ResearchData -- Michelle Urberg
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Perspectives on #metadata for #ResearchOutputs - the value proposition of metadata for End Users, Researchers, Funders & Content Providers... from #ResourceDiscovery to #ResearchImpact and beyond...
#NISOPlus23 #MetadataMatters

Can the creators of #metadata for #ResearchOutputs learn from books metadata?
Testing end-user #discovery in Google Scholar - the importance of #DOIs #Creators #Titles #Subtitles #Subjects
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#Metadata considerations:
- What are your key outputs?
- Where is there friction preventing discovery?
- What metadata are you providing?
- What is missing from the pipeline?
- What data do *you* need to feed-back?
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- The experience of good #metadata is frictionless.
- When #metadata is doing its job, you will not see what it is doing #Invisible
- When done well, #metadata is part of a data-rich pipeline for everyone in the ecosystem
#MetadataTruths #MetadataMatters #NISOPlus23

Julia McDonnell from Oxford Uni Press - #Metadata are interwoven throughout publishing, research and modern life. #Metadata helps to contextualise and structure complex and disparate data and objects
#MetadataMatters #NisoPlus23

While essential, #metadata's contribution and complexity is easily overlooked - #metadata supports #discovery, #access and #impact in multiple environments, but it is largely #invisible
#MetadataMatters #NISOPlus23

#Metadata is crucial in ensuing #compliance (e.g. with funder mandates) and demonstrating #impact in an increasingly complex and content-rich environment #NisoPlus23

How to invest in #metadata ?
- Ensure it is #HighQuality #Structured follows #FAIRprinciples & is #portable.
- Invest in #DataGovernance ; #Expertise to #create, #collect, #store & #share metadata ; & in #consistency.
This takes resource & joint action.
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