The Domino Effect of Faulty Metadata by Ricardo Hartley Belmar

“We cannot expect every metadata record to be flawless. But we can and must create minimum standards and processes for traceability and correction. Initiatives like COMET, FORCE11, Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework and the Open Science Monitor Initiative, among others, have all emphasized the need for metadata that is both machine-actionable and context-aware. The solution is not to abandon ambition but to declare the uncertainty, label the gaps, and document the provenance.”