Welcome to NAIF Track 4, Workshop 1: Improving academic metadata for Swiss repositories and institutions

This presentation documents the first NAIF Track 4 workshop, held on 15 October 2025, dedicated to improving academic metadata within Swiss institutional repositories. Track 4 focuses on enhancing national and global academic data by strengthening the quality, interoperability, and usability of key metadata categories, including authorship data, organisational affiliations, funding information, and open‑access/licensing data. The slides outline the workshop’s structure, comprising a morning exploration of the current state of metadata creation and management, followed by afternoon sessions focused on co‑designing practical actions and measures.

Participants engaged in collaborative mapping exercises across eight analytical dimensions - definitions, data flows, identifiers, interoperability, dependencies, reuse, data models, and quality - before developing action proposals to address shared challenges. The workshop emphasised co‑creation, transparency, and tangible outputs, culminating in prioritised actions to be further refined in upcoming sessions.