Speaker
Description
Today, quite a few terms exist to describe cost data. Still, as of now the precise definitions of those terms are often unclear or there exist several terms that describe seemingly the same entity. A well known example in the area of scholarly publishing is the "colour game" of Open Access (green, bronze, gold, platinum, diamond etc.) While several definitions exist there is still no definite answer once it comes to the nitty-gritty details.
For the automatic exchange of meta data as envisioned by openCost, however, unambiguous, clear definitions of terms are of utmost importance. Wrong assignments will simply degrade data quality or even render data useless. Furthermore, the minted terms need to be easily understood by our colleagues
processing publication fees while they especially face a plethora of terms coined by the publishers on their bills.
During this hands-on-lab we want to discuss with the participants
- in which areas definitions are required
- which existing vocabularies may come to aid
- how we can ensure general acceptance of the definitions found
- how we would react to changes in the future
- how we can maintain vocabularies
- how to ensure future extensibility
We will start out with a proposal of terms that are in use within the JOIN² collaboration for several years now, that is however, mainly meant as a starting point.
