Thoth open Metadata is a metadata creation, management, and dissemination platform specifically tailored to tackle the problems of getting open access publications into the book supply chain. The platform provides publishers with a tool to gather all of the metadata needed to disseminate books, such as information on titles, authors, publication dates, and the like, as well as metadata specific to digital and open access books, such as persistent identifiers and file addresses.
Thoth open Metadata is a metadata creation, management, and dissemination platform specifically tailored to tackle the problems of getting open access publications into the book supply chain. The platform provides publishers with a tool to gather all of the metadata needed to disseminate books, such as information on titles, authors, publication dates, and the like, as well as metadata specific to digital and open access books, such as persistent identifiers and file addresses.
Activities
Delivering a metadata management and dissemination platform tailored to tackle the problems of getting open access publications into the book supply chain
Governance
A not for profit Community Interest Company Limited by Guarantee, with members having overall control over its activities
Values
Harnessing collaboration to allow the creation, mashup, management, and export of high-quality open metadata without restrictions
Open source
Thoth is Open Source software that produces open (CC-0) metadata, and it includes an open API for anyone interested in our data to use
