Everything about Metadata publishing

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Metadata publishingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: “In 21st Place”: MAPP, metadata, and the uncovering of women’s publishing work at the Hogarth PressInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Long-term preservation of digital documentsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Harmonizing and publishing heterogeneous premodern manuscript metadata as Linked Open DataCited 20 times
5. Go sideways: XML Metadata InterchangeA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Meta-Object FacilityA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Harmonizing and publishing heterogeneous premodern manuscript metadata as Linked Open Data

  Mikko Koho, Toby Burrows, Eero Hyvönen · 2021 · Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology · 20 citations

• Metadata management, interoperability and Linked Data publishing support for Natural History Museums

  Giannis Skevakis, Konstantinos Makris, Varvara Kalokyri · 2014 · International Journal on Digital Libraries · 10 citations

• We Used to Call it Publishing-Issues in Crosswalking Content Metadata Standards

  Margaret St. Pierre, Sandra K. Paul, Albert Simmonds · 1999 · Against the Grain · 10 citations

• OGD metadata country portal publishing guidelines compliance: A multi-case study search for completeness and consistency

  Barbara Šlibar, Enrique Mu · 2022 · Government Information Quarterly · 10 citations

• Semantic metadata in the publishing industry – technological achievements and economic implications

  Tassilo Pellegrini · 2016 · Electronic Markets · 9 citations

• Metadata application profile as a mechanism for semantic interoperability in FAIR and open data publishing

  Nishad Thalhath, Mitsuharu Nagamori, Tetsuo Sakaguchi · 2025 · Data and Information Management · 7 citations

• Publishing datasets, using artificial intelligence to help with metadata, can enhance ocean sustainability research and management

  Angel Borja · 2025 · Frontiers in Ocean Sustainability · 4 citations

• Metadata in journal publishing

  Joppe Bos, Kevin McCurley · 2023 · TUGboat · 2 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• “In 21st Place”: MAPP, metadata, and the uncovering of women’s publishing work at the Hogarth Press

  Helen Southworth · 2026 · Feminist Modernist Studies · 1 citations

• Review of Identifier and Metadata Standards in the Publishing Industry

  Bill Rosenblatt · 2022 · Publishing Research Quarterly · 0 citations

• Publishing Fine-Grained Standardized Metadata: Lessons Learned from Three Research Data Centers

  Knut Wenzig, Andreas Daniel, Dominique Hansen · 2026 · Data Science Journal · 0 citations

• Bridging the Metadata Gap: Open Science Readiness in Pakistan’s Scholarly Publishing Landscape

  Shafia Arshad, Mujtaba Ellahi Mahar, Sabeen Saher · 2026 · Trends in Scholarly Publishing · 0 citations

• Thoth Open Metadata receives finalist nomination for the 2025 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing

  Hannah Hillen, Toby Steiner · 2025 · Copim · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Long-term preservation of digital documentsUwe M. Borghoff, Peter Rödig · 2005
• Creating and documenting electronic textsAlan S. Morrison, Alan Morrison · 1999
• Digital book production and supply chain managementBill Cope, Dean Mason · 2001
• Contexts and ContributionsMartha L. Brogan · 2006
• 📕Técnicas de registro y organización de materiales editorialesEduardo Pablo Giordanino · 2010
• Build Your Own Search EngineAndri Mirzal · 2012
• 📕The critical componentTodd A. Carpenter · 2015
• Les archives ouvertes · 2005

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