In this edition’s Against the Grain, I discuss a pathway toward a single publisher establishing author opted-in identity metadata at great detail. Readers want to know who is authoring the book they read and the “who” is increasingly multi-dimensional, intersectional, and layered. In this article I discuss a process for developing rich, informative, and detailed author identity metadata and aggregate publisher metadata.

Click to read the complete article: Learning Belongs in the Library — Developing and Delivering Identity Metadata: Authors and Publisher