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  • Comment: A lot of this was moved here from COPIM. — Diannaa (talk) 16:50, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Thoth Open Metadata (for suggested spelling, see Thoth) is a platform for managing and distributing metadata for academic books and chapters.

Thoth Open Metadata's platform is designed to meet the specific needs of small to medium-sized academic publishers that release books and chapters in open access. The platform is developed as open-source software, with the code made publicly available and all data accessible through open APIs.

All metadata created via Thoth are generated in various industry-standard formats incl. MARC21 and MARC21XML, KBART, ONIX for Books, and JSON, and are released openly under a CC0 dedication to enable free and unrestricted re-use.[1]

Business model

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Initially developed as part of the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project, Thoth has subsequently been registered as an independent nonprofit Community Interest Company in the UK in 2022.[2]

Thoth Open Metadata operates on a non-profit model, offering self-service use of its metadata management platform and APIs to publishers for free. Paid-for metadata dissemination and content hosting services are available through the Thoth Plus programme.[3]

Academic Libraries can volunteer to support the infrastructure financially through a membership programme facilitated by the Open Book Collective.[4]

Partnerships and collaborations

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Thoth is a member of various scholary communication infrastructures and networks such as Crossref, the OPERAS network,[5] the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) Trusted Partner Network[6], Invest in Open Infrastructure's InfraFinder, OASPA, and is a co-signatory of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information.

Thoth participates in the Open Book Futures project[7] and collaborates with platforms and institutions such as the Public Knowledge Project's Open Monographs Press, the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI), OAPEN, and SciELO Books to enhance the integration of open metadata (incl. usage data) for open access books across the academic publishing landscape.

Thoth Open Archiving Network (TOAN)

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Utilising Thoth Open Metadata's open data and workflows, TOAN aims to address preservation issues faced particularly by small academic publishers[8] by providing automated processes to archive these publishers' publications in repositories such as the Internet Archive, Zenodo, Github, DSpace, and Figshare.[9]

References

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  1. ^ Estelle, Lorraine; Jago, Dave; Jones, Ruth; Laakso, Mikael; Snijder, Ronald; Wise, Alicia (2025-02-10). Supporting learned society, subject association, and smaller specialist publishers to transition to open access book publishing (SPA OPS 4.0 project) (Report). Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.14679068. Retrieved 2025-02-21.
  2. ^ "THOTH OPEN METADATA COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk.
  3. ^ Oei, Vincent W. J. van Gerven; Steiner, Toby; Arias, Javier; Gatti, Rupert; Hillen, Hannah; Higman, Ross; Ramalho, Amanda (2024-01-15). "Launching the Thoth Plus service model". Copim. doi:10.21428/785a6451.0e9234b1.
  4. ^ "Thoth Open Metadata - Summary". openbookcollective.org. Open Book Collective. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  5. ^ Schulte, Judith (2023-09-26). "OPERAS welcomes Thoth". OPERAS. doi:10.58079/vl08. Retrieved 2024-02-08.
  6. ^ Davidson, Silke. "JSTOR, African Platform for Open Scholarship (APOS), Fulcrum, and Thoth Open Metadata join DOAB Trusted Platform Network". doabooks.org. Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  7. ^ "£5.8 million project to deliver a more sustainable future for Open Access books". Lancaster University. Retrieved 2024-02-08.
  8. ^ Laakso, Mikael (2023-01-01). "Open access books through open data sources: assessing prevalence, providers, and preservation". Journal of Documentation. 79 (7): 157–177. doi:10.1108/JD-02-2023-0016. ISSN 0022-0418.
  9. ^ Cole, Gareth; Barnes, Miranda; Steiner, Tobias (14 September 2023). "Thoth Archiving Network: Supporting Small and Scholar-led Publishers with Repository-Led Preservation of OA Books". Septentrio Conference Series (1). doi:10.7557/5.7140. ISSN 2387-3086. This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

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