​The Data Quality Challenge calls on publishers, institutions, and funders to revolutionise how research and publication metadata is created, shared, and maintained. By improving the accuracy and completeness of key information - from author affiliations to research funding data information - the community will be empowered to make informed decisions based on accurate and robust information.​
Our global research system can only thrive when its building blocks are connected. Metadata enables those connections by revealing how people, organisations, and resources relate. The foundation is already built - what matters now is bringing it to life, and that's something we all contribute to.​​​
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Why metadata quality matters
For all stakeholders in the research ecosystem, poor metadata poses significant risks and knock-on effects to research and publication integrity, discoverability, reporting, assessment, and operational excellence.
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Good-quality metadata empowers stakeholders.
To make, preserve, and share the connections between the building blocks of research - and to reuse the metadata that underpins them - we simply need to build on what already exists. It takes execution, hard work, and genuine collaboration. But when everyone contributes, something powerful happens: the volume of validated, trustworthy, and connected information grows everywhere. This isn’t a dream; it’s already within reach.
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Enabled by OA Switchboard, the challenge builds upon shared lessons and best practices across the industry to reflect our core values of Trust, Collaboration, and Efficiency.