Funding metadata
Coordinators: Hans de Jonge (Dutch Research Council - NWO), Katharina Rieck (Austrian Science Fund - FWF), Zoé Ancion (Agence Nationale de la Recherche - ANR)
This working group focuses on improving the availability of open funding metadata. Its goal is to strengthen how information about research funding (such as funders and grants) is recorded and shared within open research information systems.
To support this goal, the group addresses questions such as how funding information can be more consistently captured in publishing submission systems, how funders can share grant metadata more openly, how funding metadata practices can expand across regions, and how relationships between funding entities can be better represented in research information systems.
The group’s work is organized into four task forces.
For more information on open funding metadata and the benefits it provides, see here.
Task forces
Funding information in publication metadata
Task force leads: Hans de Jonge (Dutch Research Council - NWO)
- Develop an action plan and a call for action to improve how publishing systems support the registration of funding metadata, informed by a workshop with publishers and system providers.
Grant Metadata Sharing by Funders
Task force leads: Katharina Rieck (Austrian Science Fund - FWF)
- Create practical resources on grant metadata sharing by funders.
Expanding funding metadata practices across regions
Task force leaders: Adam Buttrick (California Digital Library), Joy Owango (Africa PID Alliance), Bárbara Rivera López (Barcelona Declaration)
- Expand the adoption and improvement of funding metadata practices across a more representative and geographically diverse group of funders.
Entity-relationship model
Task force leads: Adam Buttrick (California Digital Library)
- Develop an entity relationship model for funding metadata.
Outcomes
- Roundtable held on 2 October 2025 with 45 invited participants (publishers and funders), including breakout discussions on challenges in registering funding metadata (blogpost).
- Blog post on funding transparency published on the LSE Impact Blog and on the Barcelona Declaration website.
- Open funding metadata - what it is and why it matters - explainer developed to clarify the concept of open funding metadata and its relevance for the research ecosystem.