Our Vision

COMET is designed to enhance the completeness, consistency, and interoperability of metadata across the PID ecosystem. By prioritizing openness and inclusivity, COMET is establishing a curation model to facilitate a wide range of stakeholders to collectively enrich metadata. We respect persistent identifiers (PIDs) and their associated metadata as important shared sources of information and are committed to working closely with existing PID infrastructures. In all of its work, our model will emphasize responsible, equitable, and transparent practices that adhere to community-led governance standards. Building on the community’s metadata enrichment efforts, COMET’s model democratizes metadata creation while promoting shared accountability and collaboration. Through actionable frameworks and tools, our model distributes the workload across stakeholders, reducing the burden on individual creators while advancing open scholarship with enriched metadata as a reliable foundation. By foregrounding provenance and shared evaluative frameworks, the COMET model enables users to build trust through evidence, not assumption. It offers a durable and scalable foundation for metadata quality.