Thoth Open Metadata

Thoth Open Metadata has been set up as a UK Community Interest Company (CIC) limited by guarantee, to ensure that the community’s interest are being met, no private gain (such as paying out dividends to its membership) is sought, and any surplus or assets are used principally for the benefit of the community. Thoth has been formed as a “large membership” CIC, which means that the members have ultimate control over the activities of the CIC. It also requires there to be more members than Directors and allows for the membership to grow as the company grows. These members collectively decide when and how the overall membership will grow. Another key feature of a Community Interest Company is the Asset Lock, which guarantees transfer of resources to a predefined set of organisations in the case of the CIC facing insolvency. The Membership approves the appointments of Thoth’s Board of Directors, which is responsible for proper management of the company’s business.

Thoth emerged out of the collaborative efforts of the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project. Together with nearly two dozen partners from the academic and open publishing world we are currently part of the three-year Open Book Futures funded by the Research England Development Fund/UKRI and Arcadia, led by Lancaster University.
Thoth is increasingly integrated with other platforms such as the Open Book Collective, PKP’s OMP, and the Internet Archive (the latter via the Thoth Open Archiving Network). Moreover, Thoth actively engages with like-minded open infrastructures to foster partnerships to enable small-to-medium-sized publsihers to participate in the wider book supply chain. Through collaborations, such as Thoth's Crossref Sponsorship and our OPERAS, OAPEN and OASPA memberships, we seek to provide valuable resources and services to publishers from across the globe.

https://thoth.pub/about/partners