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Thoth Open Metadata (for suggested spelling, see Thoth) is an Open source metadata management and distribution platform and service first developed in the context of the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project.
As of 2022, the initiative has officially been registered as a nonprofit Community Interest Company in the UK.[1]
Thoth is specifically tailored to tackle issues faced by small-to-medium size scholar-led and university publishers of getting Open access (OA) works into the larger book supply chain.[2] It is being built with openness in mind: its source code is open, its data is exposed via open APIs and all of the generated metadata outputs are released under a CC0 license.
Thoth's main goals are:
- To lower the entry barrier to good metadata management and practices particularly for small- and medium-sized OA publishers who are currently struggling to produce their metadata to the various and different specifications that each distributing platform requires;
- To help distribute open access books, which have been systematically excluded from a book supply chain that was created primarily with closed, priced books in mind;
- To expose openly licensed, publisher-governed metadata in a variety of formats -- such as MARC21 and MARC21XML, KBART, ONIX for Books, JSON -- using industry standards and platform-specific variations thereof publicly for anyone to consume.[3]
Non-profit service model[edit]
Thoth's core service of platform and export API provision are provided for self-service use by publishers without any charges (an account registration is required). Via the Open Book Collective, participating libraries are invited to commit to financial annual contributions to help sustain Thoth's operations.[4] Next to that, Thoth offers additional metadata creation, management, dissemination and archiving services via its paid-for service model called Thoth Plus.[5]
Partnerships[edit]
Thoth collaborates with a variety of like-minded open infrastructure providers active in the field of open access books.
As of December 2023, Thoth has been confirmed as an official Crossref sponsor[6]. As of January 2024, Thoth has been confirmed as a member of pan-European network OPERAS,[7]. A strategic collaboration agreement has been signed with the OAPEN Foundation, and a subsequent Memorandum of Understanding documents Thoth's inclusion in the DOAB Trusted Partner Network.[8]
Through its participation as a key stakeholder in the Open Book Futures project[9]. Thoth also works e.g. with the Public Knowledge Project, COKI, and SciELO Books to improve the integration of rich open access book metadata in a variety of international contexts.
Thoth Archiving Network[edit]
Thoth also underpins the work happening on the Thoth Archiving Network, a recently-launched community initiative also developed under the remit of the COPIM project.[10]
The Thoth Archiving Network is addressing systemic issues faced particularly by small and scholar-led presses that make up much of the “long tail” of publishers without an active preservation policy in place, which effectively puts these publishers' significant contributions to the scholarly record at risk.[11] And while large-scale publishers have existing agreements with digital preservation archives, such as CLOCKSS and Portico, small presses often languish without financial or institutional support, alongside challenges in technical expertise and staff resources.[10][12]
The Thoth Archiving Network implements initial steps towards essential community infrastructure by enabling publishers to use a push-button deposit option to archive their publications in multiple repository locations, including with the Internet Archive, Zenodo, as well as with institutional implementations of DSpace and Figshare.[10]
References[edit]
- ^ "THOTH OPEN METADATA COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk.
- ^ Stone, Graham; Gatti, John Rupert James; van Gerven Oei, Vincent WJ; Arias, Javier; Steiner, Tobias; Ferwerda, Eelco (2020-07-27). "Building an Open Dissemination System". Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM). doi:10.17863/cam.57976 – via Cambridge University Research Outputs.
- ^ Arias, Javier; Barnes, Lucy (2021-10-27). "Thoth, open metadata and building structural equity: an interview for Open Access Week". Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM). doi:10.21428/785a6451.c7ddbe7d. S2CID 240123218.
- ^ "Thoth Open Metadata - Summary". openbookcollective.org. Open Book Collective. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Arias, Javier; Higman, Ross; Hillen, Hannah; Gatti, Rupert; Oei, Vincent W. J. van Gerven; O'Connell, Brendan; Ramalho, Amanda; Steiner, Toby (2024-01-15). "Thoth Expands Team and Collaborations, Introduces New Services". Copim. doi:10.21428/785a6451.a2e47002.
- ^ Schulte, Judith (2023-09-26). "OPERAS welcomes Thoth". OPERAS. Retrieved 2024-02-08.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "£5.8 million project to deliver a more sustainable future for Open Access books". Lancaster University. Retrieved 2024-02-08.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ Laakso, Mikael (18 December 2023). "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.
- ^ Barnes, Miranda; Bell, Emily; Cole, Gareth; Fry, Jenny; Gatti, Rupert; Stone, Graham (2022-06-24). "WP7 Scoping Report on Archiving and Preserving OA Monographs". Community-led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM). doi:10.5281/zenodo.6725309. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
