Community approaches to open data at scale

The integrity of ‘the scholarly record’ is predicated on the accuracy and availability of the information describing that record. The value of this information (high quality metadata) is often underestimated by those who stand to benefit most from its use and reuse---publishers and authors. This moderated panel session will bring multiple perspectives together to discuss the scholarly record broadly defined, the value of the relationships among different kinds of research objects, and the extent to which workarounds, ingenuity and a possibly unreasonable degree of discussion are required to address and remediate the shortfalls in how metadata is created and distributed. Topics addressed will include the communication surrounding the value of rich, interlinked metadata; the necessity of variety in schema, standards and workflows,and the tradeoffs inherent in aggregating and distributing open data.