2026-05-19 –, Theater platform
Do you also struggle with missing ORCIDs, incomplete affiliations or conflicting open access metadata?
These gaps affect reporting, evaluation and discovery of research outputs. But where exactly do the problems occur in the research information chain, and what can we do about them together?
In this interactive workshop you will work with the first data-driven monitoring results from the ORI Monitoring Framework, based on use cases collected from Dutch universities and research funders. These results compare metadata quality across systems such as CRIS platforms, OpenAlex and OpenAIRE.
Instead of just presenting results, you will actively help identify interventions to improve open research information.
During the workshop you will:
- explore example dashboards showing gaps in PIDs, affiliations and differences of metadata records within different sources.
- discuss with peers where problems originate in the research information chain
- propose concrete interventions that institutions, infrastructures and publishers could implement
The goal is simple: move from monitoring problems to improving the ecosystem together.
Your input will help shape the next steps in ORI monitoring, dashboard development and community improvement actions for an open research information commons.
CRIS managers, research intelligence analysts, librarians, open science coordinators, research infrastructure specialists and policy staff working with research information, metadata quality and persistent identifiers.
What is the key take away of your session?:Understand where gaps exist in open research metadata and identify concrete community interventions to improve PIDs, metadata completeness and licenses across CRIS systems, OpenAlex and OpenAIRE.
Maurice Vanderfeesten is a passionate merger of ideas. He currently works as Innovation Manager Research Services at the University Library of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
He believes in a multi-disciplinary approach and is responsible for co-creating library services for Open Science, Scholarly Communication Workflows and Research Intelligence.
Maurice studied Information Sciences at Utrecht University, worked at SURF, a cooperation of Dutch universities for IT-innovation, on scholarly information infrastructures, Open Access repositories and enhanced publications, and worked at TU Delft on research data management.