Open Metadata Management and Dissemination with Thoth

Within the scholarly publishing landscape, monographs are often considered as secondary to journals. Nevertheless, especially within the Humanities and Social Sciences, monographs remain the primary mode of scholarly communication and a core part of a scholar's research assessment basis.

Yet, the monograph publishing ecosystem has been slow to adopt and integrate open standards, including with regard to metadata, making them also less accessible to libraries, research aggregators, and academic institutions. Open metadata management and dissemination platform Thoth solves for these issues, giving both publishers an open source tool to manage and disseminate CC0-licensed metadata to a variety of repositories, and libraries and other third parties to ingest and access those data through an open API.

This presentation provides an overview of the design architecture and user interface of Thoth, its various outputs and APIs, and the ways in which Thoth is helping authors and open access publishers to improve their works' visibility in the scholarly publishing landscape.