Thoth Open Metadata

@thoth-metadata.eurosky.social

👋🏽 Thoth is an open metadata management and dissemination platform for #OAbooks. Developed under the remit of @copim.bsky.social, we're now a non-profit CIC registered in the UK.
🐘: https://hcommons.social/@Thoth_metadata
🕸: https://thoth.pub

@hypervisible.blacksky.app Oct 7, 2026, 6:59 PMReposted by @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social

“These signatures are maybe the most on the nose reminder of how AI models were trained on a vast corpus of writing, images, videos, and artworks that were scraped without permission.”

futurism.comChatGPT Caught Putting Signatures of Real Cartoonists on AI-Generated ComicsChatGPT is churning out New Yorker style cartoons and slapping the name of real artists on them without permission.

@alittleroad.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 4:35 PMReposted by @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social

'Sage Community Open Access' www.sagepub.com/journals/inf...

Curious to know who the community is that's referenced here, and how they can influence this community initiative.

@alpsp.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 1:01 PMReposted by @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social

#BLOG | Building open infrastructure for books: from ALPSP Innovation in Publishing 2026 Award Finalist Thoth Open Metadata

Read this latest blog written by Hannah Hillen at 👉 buff.ly/sAbmseR

@operaseu.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 9:56 AMReposted by @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social

🎉 Welcome to OPERAS, KNAW!

We are delighted to welcome the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) to the OPERAS community!

#OpenScience #OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #ScholarlyCommunication #FAIRData

@oabooksnetwork.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 10:10 AMReposted by @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social

NEW EVENT | 'Shaping the Future of Diamond Open Access for Books: Have Your Say'

Find out more about how you can feed in to the Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS) for books!

📍Online, free
📆 Monday 12 October
⏰ 10-11am BST / 11am-12pm CEST

us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A card advertising the event with the AEGIS and OABN logos, the title and date of the event, and 'Register now'

@thoth-metadata.eurosky.social Oct 6, 2026, 1:53 PM

We are delighted to share that Thoth is now an accredited @crossref.bsky.social Service Provider at the Advanced tier, recognising years of work to make rich, open book metadata achievable for presses of every size! 🎉

thoth.pub/blog/10.7095...

#openinfrastructure #MetadataMatters #OAbooks

@openbookcollective.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 8:12 AMReposted by @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social

How do you persuade your institution to fund open access? Join us on 22 October (11:00 CEST / 10:00 BST) for a free Open Access Week webinar with colleagues from the University of Essex and TU Delft, plus the Open Book Collective. Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@anna-r-hughes.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:59 AMReposted by @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social

How can #OpenInfrastructures collaborate and share knowledge more easily?

Find out more on the @jisc.bsky.social #Research blog

👉 research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2026/09/2...

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@thoth-metadata.eurosky.social Oct 1, 2026, 12:14 PMReposted by @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social

Preprint: Not Plausible, But Verifiable - Scholarly Metadata in the Age of AI.

Preprint, by Toby Steiner and Vincent van Gerven Oei. Article forthcoming in Tendencia Editorial UR Nº 41 (U. del Rosario, Bogotá) at FIL Guadalajara 2026. doi.org/10.59350/c1v...

@infodocket.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 9:55 PMReposted by @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social

AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit (via @courthousenews.bsky.social)
www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...

@warwicklanguage.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 12:26 PMReposted by @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social

notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/s/LLzgDU

@openbookcollective.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 9:55 AMReposted by @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social

Our annual report for May 25-April 26 is now out! It’s been a year of steady growth, with new library supporters, new publishers, and new faces. Between them our members published 326 OA books in this time, an impressive output that rivals many commercial publishers! obc.copim.pub/six-years-in...

@thoth-metadata.eurosky.social Oct 1, 2026, 12:14 PM

... automation that provides support to cataloguing and metadata specialists, instead of threatening their actual roles within #scholcom. #MetadataMatters #AI #oat26 #openinfrastructures

flavoursofopen.science/not-plausibl...

@thoth-metadata.eurosky.social Oct 1, 2026, 12:14 PM

Our alternative: scaling small, grounded in work with @operaseu.bsky.social, @copim.bsky.social, @barcelonadori.bsky.social, our membership in the @doabooks.bsky.social Trusted Partner Network, and with @books.scielo.org, among many others. Open APIs, non-profit governance and open-model ...

@thoth-metadata.eurosky.social Oct 1, 2026, 12:14 PM

We look at four problems: scaling and sustainability, operating costs externalised onto open infrastructures, the dissolution of provenance, and the simple fact that, in cataloguing, having no metadata is preferable to having erroneous (aka "hallucinated") metadata. #MetadataMatters

@thoth-metadata.eurosky.social Oct 1, 2026, 12:14 PM

We argue AI is being sold to HEI management as a miracle cure. We re-surface the questions hiding behind the shiny chat interface: who owns & governs them, what costs (financially, environmentally, socially), and what happens when open knowledge feeds proprietary tools no one can trace / inspect?

@thoth-metadata.eurosky.social Oct 1, 2026, 12:14 PM

Preprint: Not Plausible, But Verifiable - Scholarly Metadata in the Age of AI.

Preprint, by Toby Steiner and Vincent van Gerven Oei. Article forthcoming in Tendencia Editorial UR Nº 41 (U. del Rosario, Bogotá) at FIL Guadalajara 2026. doi.org/10.59350/c1v...

@emmabooth.eurosky.social Sep 30, 2026, 2:08 PMReposted by @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social

"High-quality open metadata can become the connective tissue between otherwise separate systems. When persistent identifiers, controlled vocabularies & common metadata standards are embedded in interoperable workflows...

@heroicendeavour.eurosky.social Sep 28, 2026, 9:47 AMReposted by @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social

I like to think that initiatives like the @openbookcollective.bsky.social are a really key part of the process of moving from this capitalist model of academia towards something that is more diverse, democratic, participatory, community-led, more about knowledge as a public good for all. #OAT26

@heroicendeavour.eurosky.social Sep 29, 2026, 8:21 AMReposted by @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social

If you’re attending mine and @shawthomas.bsky.social’s #OAT26 session later on ‘Collaboration over Competition’, we’ve made the slides available on Zenodo for pre- and post-viewing - and for anyone who can’t attend!

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