Thoth Open Metadata

so it begins

Don’t rely on government to save the British Library - Impact of Social Sciences Following a catastrophic hack British Library remains in crisis. Can it recover by refocusing on the people, skills and systems that enable it to function?

Absolutely cracking blog post from @simonxix.com calling for collective investment in staff and community-owned, open-source infrastructures in place of costly proprietary systems, based on the BL incident. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Introducing ... Copim Compass - Copim We are excited to present Copim Compass, a comprehensive tool suite developed by Copim’s Open Book Futures project. This post was originally published on our …

Join @kirahopkins.bsky.social later today at #UKSGForum2025 to learn about #CopimCompass 🧭

The Compass is a comprehensive toolkit about #OA monograph publishing developed by Copim ⚒️

Find out more in advance 👉 buff.ly/AmjdgZ2

@uksg.bsky.social

I've got a new piece at @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today following on from my previous piece about the British Library cyberattack and arguing that, since the UK Government clearly doesn't care about the UK knowledge sector, we need to develop our own community-led tech and infrastructure solutions.

Don’t rely on government to save the British Library - Impact of Social Sciences Following a catastrophic hack British Library remains in crisis. Can it recover by refocusing on the people, skills and systems that enable it to function?

💥New: Don’t rely on government to save the British Library

✍️ @simonxix.com

#BritishLibrary #HigherEducation #ResearchInfrastructure

Infographic officially generated by AI and full of weird spellings as follows: AI-EMPOWERED LIBERAIAN: A Guide to FUTURE SKILLS & TOOLS CORE SKILLS INFO LITERACY 2.0 PROMPT ENGINEERING HALLUCINATION VERIFICATION Crafting effective queries New Boulean Logic New Boulean Logic Fixing bad Al answers You: Human-in-the-loop ALGORTHMIC BIAS TOOL FLUENCY Perpxlexy (Cited Ansiwers) (Lit Raviews) Elicit (Lit Reviews) Consesus (Science) Spotting stereyptes Critical evaligane Workshops YOU are the *Al-Literate Information Professional Teach Patrons to Think Critically ETHICS & LAW PRACTICAL WINS COPYRIGHT & IP CATALOGING Clean Metddata Transcribe Archives (Transkribus) MARKETING DATA PRIVACY Al content not cophiyated Social Media Captions ACCESBILITY No sensitive data in public Al Protecting user info Video Transcripts Speech-to-Text Be the Trust Agent ~Gatekeeper~

Oh joy, another helpful AI infographic via LinkedIn. Off I go to my job as a liberaian, maybe to run some critical evaligane workshops and of course use New! Boulean! Logic!

A poster for the event - All details can be found via the link

Been working with some of the people from @openbookcollective.bsky.social for our next open event and now it's here: Archiving and preservation for open access monographs, 13/01/26 14:00-15:00

talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0c0...

A promotional graphic titled “Publishing Beyond the Market.” The top half has a gray textured background with the event title in large white text and a vertical label reading “Book Talk.” To the right is an illustration of a tall, uneven stack of books. The bottom half shows two headshots: on the left, Samuel Moore; on the right, Heather Joseph. Text below reads “with Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph.”

📢 Upcoming #booktalk! 📖
Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph for PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET, reimagining open access through scholar-led, non-commercial publishing.

📆 Thurs Dec 4th
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951...

@SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social

Haikus ftw ... Revenge of the Humanities

Advancing Accessibility in Open Access Publishing When it [accessibility] is embedded in the culture, it reinforces the mission of serving all readers. It’s not a checkbox; it’s a strategic, forward-looking commitment and means knowledge can be equal...

Digital content is never neutral with respect to different bodies & modes of reading, & attending to its form is essential to making scholarship genuinely open.

READ more about punctum's new Accessibility Roadmap for making our books & website more accessible for all readers:

tinyurl.com/yapbh9ej

Particularly relevant in the context of #Munin2025: @joedeville.bsky.social highlights some findings from a report on adoption of #DiamondOA, with a focus here on feedback received from Nordic countries (with case studies of Finland and Sweden)

Now a more in-depth look at the @openbookcollective.bsky.social and the amazing things they are making possible, including the OBC's Collective Development Fund, which is providing support to build capacity for #DiamondOA publishing activities of #OAbooks

And here he is: @joedeville.bsky.social introducing the work that's being done within the @copim.bsky.social community to establish community-led open infrastructures for #OAbooks

First up is @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca

🖊️ Moving beyond closed silos: liberating workflows based on open metadata to bring about an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for open access books and chapters
📆 19 November
⏰ 12:00-12:10
🔗 buff.ly/3BX2Ahl

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The volume of university libraries using proprietary software that *limits* their ability to import high quality CC0 bibliographic metadata records articulates some of the problems in libraries, their relationships with technology, an overreliance on vendors, and the challenges they create for open.

🔦 To celebrate #UPWeek we're shining a light on the institutional publishers you can support via @openbookcollective.bsky.social

An international group of UPs, including publishers that are either 100% OA already or moving towards at least 75% #OA on new books

👉 buff.ly/vFVahp7

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Interesting point in the Q&A discussion about Open Infrastructures & the Open Ecosystem being complex & 'messy' with many stakeholders & organisations. Toby maintains that this is a feature not a bug - there's no 1 single point of failure and the complexity supports different needs and use-cases.

Embracing Messiness: Open access offers the chance to creatively experiment with scholarly publishing. - Impact of Social Sciences In the quest for greater access to scholarly work, the discussion has long been characterised as a search, for better or for worse, for the most sustainable model. In this transcript of her recent tal...

We build community and collaboration upon shared common goals across this complexity. Janneka Adema explores the value of preserving the messiness, creativity and diversity of the movement: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: OBC New Members Showcase. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. The Open Book Collective (OBC) invites colleagues from across the library and open access community to join our upcoming New Member Showcase - an open session for libraries, consortia, and others inte...

Sign up for our upcoming New Member Showcase (3pm GMT, 24 Nov) to hear our latest updates and meet some of our newest members, who will introduce their work, their supporter offers, and opportunities for collaboration and library support.

Open to all, not just OBC members! Registration required.

Join Thoth tomorrow for a free webinar on “Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access” 🕸️ 📖
📆 11 November 2025, 3pm-4:15pm [GMT]

Oh & this also mentions a webinar that @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & colleagues are running on open infrastructures on Tues 11 Nov that is free & well worth attending. OA books are all very well but no good without open infra that's not owned by corp giants: copim.pub/webinar-11-n...

Excited to be presenting at this webinar with
@copim.bsky.social, @oapenbooks.bsky.social
and @thoth-metadata.bsky.social! Join us!

HUZZAH! Community-led #OpenAccess book platforms that attend, not to scale, but to systems designed for resiliency and bibliodiversity will not only succeed, but are already succeeding. We helped build the OBC & we're proud as hell of it.

"Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access" (11 November 2025, 3pm-4:15pm [GMT]) - Copim Please register to attend the online webinar via this Zoom link. We will be recording the event, and will circulate speaker presentations & slides after the w…

Join @copim.bsky.social, @scossfunding.bsky.social & @sparc-eu.bsky.social at this free webinar to discuss how best to facilitate interoperability between open infrastructures, to ensure a bright future for #OA research and publication 🕸️ 📖

Join the @jisc.bsky.social team for a session exploring the Library Hub services and the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase (NBK), which will shortly be part of Thoth Plus book distribution for publishers! 📚

The Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social is LIVE at the Charleston Conference from 10am to 5pm today! Come chat all things community-led #OpenAccess book publishing with Livy Snyder & Eileen Joy.

Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it!

#chsconf2025

Opening the Future Opening the Future is a book subscription model that achieves the dual objectives of enhancing library collections while supporting open access.

Hot off the press from @chashub.bsky.social 🗞️❤️‍🔥

@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social have launched their OtF programme in partnership with @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social via Fulcrum (an #OpenSource platform) 🤝

👉 boydellandbrewer.com/open-access/...

#chsconf2025 #OA #Monographs

📣 Join authors, publishers, librarians, and infrastructure developers to explore the future of community-led open access books

Get your ticket now! 🎟️

🗓️ 26–27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London and online
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#CopimConference

Anyone interesting in the future of OA books, come and attend our conference next year, join the conversation!

Looking forward to joining @copim.bsky.social for this upcoming webinar, where we’ll be speaking about how open infrastructures collaborate to strengthen interoperability and sustainability. Join us on 11 Nov, 🔗 buff.ly/akMIIW8