LIBER is Europe’s largest association of research libraries, representing more than 420 university, national and research libraries. The LIBER 2024 conference took place from July 2-4 in Limassol, Cyprus, with a program comprising a combination of round tables, thematic parallel sessions, workshops, and interactive panels, as well as specialized activities in the field. More details can be found on the LIBER 2024 webpage.

The panel 4, Establishing Responsibility on Measurements, Metrics, and Rankings, focused on Open Science (OS) and responsible use of metrics (RMs). The aim is to foster research integrity by ensuring transparent and rigorous data practices, and to show advancements in promoting transparency, collaboration, and accessibility in research. 

Alicia Fátima Gómez, the IEU Library director in collaboration with a representative of the Wageningen University & Research (The Netherlands) presented a lecture entitled: “Fostering co-responsibility for open metadata quality to evaluate and monitor Open Science” offered a study about metadata quality, and how data harvesting and metadata curation can boost scientific robustness and ethics, showing the impact of metadata quality on the reliability of open metrics. 

More information: Alicia Fátima Gómez Sánchez, & Cristina Huidiu. (2024). Fostering co-responsibility for open metadata quality to evaluate and monitor Open Science. LIBER 2024, Limassol, 3-5 July. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12604738