Metadata policy

Verbum et Lingua: Didáctica, Lengua y Cultura implements a strict metadata management policy to maximize the global visibility of its publications, ensure scientific transparency, and facilitate automated knowledge transfer across international repositories, catalogs, and search engines.

 

1. Interoperability Standards and Protocols

To ensure efficient communication with global scientific information systems, the journal adopts the following technological standards:

  • OAI-PMH Protocol: The journal's portal maintains the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvestingpermanently active and accessible. This allows external indexers and aggregators to automatically harvest the bibliographic information of each issue.
  • Dublin Core Schema: All metadata exposed through the OAI repository is structured under the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, guaranteeing a controlled and universal vocabulary.
  • XML JATS Markup: Research articles are published and processed under the international Journal Article Tag Suite(XML JATS) standard. This ensures that metadata is semantically embedded at the full-text level, facilitating machine readability and artificial intelligence processing.

 

2 Mandatory Article-Level Metadata

Upon submission and subsequent publication, each manuscript must mandatorily include the following standardized metadata:

  • Authorship and Affiliation Identification: Full names and surnames of each author in the exact order of appearance. It is mandatory to include the formal institutional affiliation (specifying the main institution and country) in accordance with international standardization standards (such as the ROR registry).
  • ORCID iD: Registering the persistent digital identifier ORCID iD for all co-authors is mandatory. No article lacking this verified registration will be indexed.
  • Bilingual Textual Metadata: The title, structured abstract, and a minimum of five keywords must be registered in the original language of the manuscript and their corresponding English translation (or Spanish, if the original text is in English). Keywords should preferably be selected from specialized education and linguistics thesauri (e.g., UNESCO Thesaurus).
  • Persistent Identifiers (DOI): Each article is assigned a unique DOI (Digital Object Identifier) through the Crossrefagency, which is permanently registered in the metadata to ensure the document link remains unbroken.
  • Funding Declaration (FundRef): In compliance with COPE ethical standards, authors must explicitly declare in the metadata whether the research received financial support, identifying the funding agency (linked to the Crossref Funder Registry) and the project or grant number. If no funding was received, it must be explicitly stated as "None."
  • Contribution Taxonomy (CRediT): In cases of co-authorship, the metadata will accurately reflect the specific roles of each researcher under the CRediTtaxonomy standard.

 

3. Metadata Licensing, Openness, and Reuse

In alignment with the guidelines of the OpenCitations initiative and the criteria required by DOAJ and Scopus, Verbum et Lingua makes a clear distinction between the rights of the full text and the nature of its metadata:

  • While the full text of the articles is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, the journal's descriptive metadata is released under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

This means that citation and bibliographic metadata have no copyright restrictions. Explicit, free, and irrevocable permission is granted to any user, repository, or database worldwide to download, store, reuse, enrich, and disseminate this metadata in order to enhance the visibility of science, bibliometric analysis, and the interconnection of academic networks.

 

4. Metadata Quality Control and Correction

The Editorial Board assumes responsibility for auditing metadata quality across three stages of the workflow:

  • Upon Reception: Verification of exact correspondence between the data entered in the OJS submission form, the Declaration of Originality, and the anonymized file.
  • During Production: Metadata enrichment by validating and actively linking the DOIs in the article's reference list.
  • Post-Publication: Immediate correction of any erroneous metadata detected after publication (such as typos in names or affiliations) by updating the OJS record and subsequently updating the Crossref deposit, ensuring the historical traceability of the document.