Ringgold’s CMO Jay Henry attended the Council of Science Editors Annual Meeting from 14-17 May 2016.

Ringgold’s CMO Jay Henry attended the Council of Science Editors Annual Meeting from 14-17 May 2016 to speak on Emerging Standards: Data and Data Exchange in Scholarly Publishing, alongside other data experts from CrossRef, the National Library of Medicine, and the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Ringgold is one of several organizations, such as the AAMC, CrossRef, ORCID, CASRAI, and NIH, that are putting forth ideas to standardize data and data exchange throughout scholarly publishing. This session discussed new initiatives that address such challenges as standardizing conflict of interest reporting, easily identifying funding sources, clarifying contributor roles for research papers, and managing institution disambiguation.