Jay Henry, Ringgold’s Chief Marketing Officer, was at the Council of Science Editors Annual Conference in Philadelphia discussing Emerging Standards: Data and Data Exchange in Scholarly Publishing on Sunday 17 May. Ringgold is one of several organizations that are putting forth ideas to standardize data and data exchange throughout scholarly publishing. This session discussed new initiatives that address such challenges as easily identifying funding sources, managing author disambiguation and contributorship in scholarly publishing, and managing institution disambiguation.