2026
CRKN Virtual Conference: Creative Collaborations, Collective Momentum
Virtual
May 12 - 14, 2026
Adventures in Funding Metadata
Wednesday May 13, 2026
From 1:00pm to 1:30pm
With upcoming changes to the Tri-Agency OA Policy for publications and an increased effort internationally to better track the outcomes of research funding, many have fixed their gaze on facilitating and improving funder metadata in research publications. On the surface, this sounds easy enough. You just get authors to include this information in their submission. How hard could it be?
Actually, really hard, it turns out! For reasons related to publishing culture, metadata literacy, technical concerns, the actions of funding bodies themselves, and a huge disparity in the availability of metadata direct from publishers and what they deposit to any number of open platforms, there are significant challenges in funder metadata collection. This presentation will review the broader technical landscape of funder metadata, from PIDs and the dispersal of their metadata across open scholarly infrastructure to examples of the incorporation of this metadata from countries already doing the work. This presentation will also review existing work in the field, including the efforts of the Barcelona Declaration, COMET Metadata, Crossref, and a number of other organizations pushing to improve research transparency.
It doesn't have to be as hard as it is to have good funding metadata but, as this presentation will articulate, it requires significant effort between service providers, publishers, librarians, infrastructure maintainers, funding bodies, institutions, research offices, and the researchers themselves.
Speakers
Manager, Canadian Persistent Identifier Community
Canadian Research Knowledge Network
Open Scholarship & Publishing Librarian
University of New Brunswick Fredericton