Thoth Open Metadata
Thoth_metadata@hcommons.social
<p>Thoth is an open metadata management and dissemination platform for <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OAbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OAbooks</span></a>, developed under the remit of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hcommons.social/@copim" class="u-url mention">@<span>copim</span></a></span>, now a non-profit CIC registered in the UK, and key partner in the Open Book Futures project. </p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/MetadataMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MetadataMatters</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/openinfra" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>openinfra</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OAbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OAbooks</span></a></p>
Posts
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Post #1498710
Timely series of blog posts published by our colleagues in the Open Book Futures Archiving &amp; Preservation team, looking into some of the challenges that exist for small publishers of open access monographs #OAbooks #ThothOpenArchivingNetwork #MetadataMatters First up: Barnes, M., &amp; Cole, G. (2024). Existing pathways to preservation: Archiving challenges for small publishers series. This post considers advantages and disadvantages in existing pathways to preservation. 1/3...
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Post #1047284
So wonderful to see punctum books 📚 going from strength to strength! A living testament (among many others active in the @copim and @RadicalOA communities and beyond) that sparkly #DiamondOA for #OAbooks can actually work! 😍 &gt; For the first time in our fourteen-year history, we have reached a threshold of financial stability whereby we have the salaried staff we need to do the work we want to do at a pace that is liveable, everyone is being compensated above academic publishing industr...
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Post #701293
Wishing all of our publishers and friends in the Open Access books space a restful winter break and a very happy new year. We&#39;ll still be here if you need us, while we continue work behind-the-scenes on some exciting developments and releases for Thoth in 2026 🎆 #OAbooks #openinfra #MetadataMatters
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Post #701292
📚✨ Now live: What does the FIL Guadalajara reveal about the circulation of academic books? This post reflects on conversations from the fair and connects them to the role of Thoth Open Metadata and SciELO Books in enabling the discovery, circulation, and long-term sustainability of open access academic books. 🔗 https://copim.pub/fil-guadalajara-academic-books-thoth-open-metadata-scielo-livros/ #OpenAccess #OpenMetadata #OpenInfrastructure #OAbooks
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Post #701182
📢 Announcing a Major Update to the Thoth Platform 📢 We are pleased to announce the forthcoming launch of Thoth 1.0, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of its open metadata infrastructure for #OA book publishing 🎆🎆🎆 Read more in our latest blog post: https://thoth.pub/blog/10.70950/gfsb5419
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Post #701180
We are super excited to announce the publication of our substantive report &quot;International Metadata Recommendations and Platform-Specific Requirements for #OABooks and Chapters&quot; The report addresses a longstanding challenge in #OAbooks publishing: how to create, manage, and disseminate metadata that actually works across today’s fragmented scholarly ecosystem. #MetadataMatters Bringing together multiple perspectives of not-for-profit #DiamondOA book publishers, librarians, and...
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Post #701176
Really excited to share that we’ve published Thoth Open Metadata’s self-assessment against the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). 🎉 For us, this is more than a compliance exercise. It’s an open reflection on how we believe open metadata for books should be governed, sustained, and shared - with community oversight, open-source code, and CC0 data and open APIs at its core. As open access policies evolve, infrastructure transparency matters for publishers, librarians, and policym...