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The Scholarly Record Is Infrastructure. Treat It Like One.
Open science is just science done well. Why the institutions that treat metadata, persistent identifiers, and semantic infrastructure as core will be the ones ready for AI and able to keep sovereignty over their research.
Read more →Introducing Semantify
We're a scholarly infrastructure consultancy founded by Sara El-Gebali and Xiaoli Chen — two practitioners who've spent their careers inside the systems we now help others build.
Topic in progressMetadata Debt: The Hidden Cost of Quick Fixes
Every free-text field, every uncrosswalked schema, every identifier that was minted but never linked to anything — that's metadata debt, and it compounds.
Topic in progressAdoption Is Not Deployment
You can deploy a PID system, write a data management plan, and build a knowledge graph — and still fail if nobody uses them. Here's why adoption is a design problem.
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