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Several sessions and hallway discussions centered on how we can ensure trust in research, how publishers can signal trust, and what might be new ways to validate these trust signals. Although there wasn’t a particular session focused on trust markers per se, it seemed there was a lot of buzz about it, at least as much as the discussions centered around AI. The two conversations almost dance with each other, despite flowing from different sources. Straight out of the gate during the Thursday morning opening plenary, Rebecca Lawrence pointed to new work from NISO on a framework for trust markers that was just announced as an important initiative to help grow trust in research. The topic of trust came up again at a session on persistent identifiers and how chains of related PIDs and metadata can be a source of trust signals, which Julie Petro, Alice Meadows, and I each spoke about the current state of PIDs. The interconnections can serve as other signals about research validity, as noted in a joint Crossref and Datacite paper, Why Metadata Matters for Research Integrity and How to Contribute, released earlier this spring, as well as in the session on Improving Trust through Verifying, where Lang made the comments I noted above.
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