KOMET – Collaborative enrichment of the metadata commons to foster a diverse OA ecosystem

The KOMET project aims to support the professionalisation of the metadata processes of independent, scholar-led OA journals and thus increase their visibility in academia and their importance as a publication venue. To this end, the most widely used open source software for OA journals worldwide - Open Journal Systems (OJS) - will be supplemented with functions that enable the entry, curation and enrichment of article-related metadata by authors and editors and the export of this metadata to open data sources such as Wikidata. Using persistent identifiers and geometric data, KOMET thus connects related articles across journals and scientific disciplines and supports novel evaluation methods for science and an open publishing culture and practice.