OS DataMercs — metadata consulting and teaching for scholarly publishing.
OS DataMercs is a metadata consultancy for scholarly publishing and libraries: standards-first, practical, and allergic to hype. We consult, teach, and help ship discovery-grade metadata — MARC21, ONIX, KBART, JATS/BITS — including how to record AI contribution without breaking the catalogue.
Architecture and governance for product data and bibliographic metadata: modelling guidelines, quality processes, partner feeds, and ERP-to-discovery pipelines.
Workshops and guided practice for editorial, data, and library teams — usable the same week, not slide-deck tourism.
Hands-on metadata products and tooling support: audits, enrichment rules, KBART/MARC/ONIX delivery hygiene, provenance patterns for AI-assisted works.
Librarian by training (M.A. Library and Information Science & German Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and data practitioner by trade. Since 2012 at De Gruyter Brill in Berlin — Technical Customer Service leadership, then Product Data, Metadata & Standards: product data warehouse, data governance & stewardship, Klopotek/SAP interfaces, and partner metadata (GBV, OCLC, EBSCO, Ex Libris, and others).
Earlier: book trade and the library of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
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