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Community
COMET is a community initiative driven by the needs of diverse stakeholders committed to the collective stewardship of quality, trustworthy, and open scholarly metadata.
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Our community
We recognise that research outputs are the product of many actors whose collective expertise should be empowered to create a complete and accurate scholarly record.
The members in our community represent organisations such as:
- research institutes and labs
- national, public, and institutional libraries
- publishers and publishing technology providers
- PID and bibliographic service providers
- government agencies and policy makers
- research councils and funders
- repositories and archives
- open science advocacy groups.
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Organisers
COMET is currently operated by a partnership of four organisations that provide financial and in-kind support and overarching strategy.
The organisers include a representative from each partner organisation and the core team responsible for day-to-day operations.

John Chodacki
California Digital Library

Nees Jan van Eck
CWTS, Leiden University

Maria Gould
DataCite

Juan Pablo Alperin
Public Knowledge Project

Dione Mentis
COMET Project Lead
DataCite

Adam Buttrick
California Digital Library

Parth Sarin
COMET Researcher
Stanford University
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Advisors
COMET Organisers consult regularly with an advisory group who provide their expertise in governance, policy, technology, advocacy, funding, and capacity building in community-led initiatives.

Cameron Neylon

Eric Jeangirard

Howard Ratner

Melissa Harrison

Carly Robinson

Cristina Huidiu

Ludo Waltman




