The Golden Moment: What role should authors play?

• Project SPECTRa established a Golden Moment when authors have to hand the appropriate data and its context (metadata) from their research
• but which never makes it into their authoring process
  • because its too difficult (Hand-crafted RDF?)
  • There are no tools for the job
  • Publishers neither request (value) nor process it
• If we are lucky, it ends up as Electronic Supporting information
  • The term electronic relates merely to mode of delivery, not to machine processability
  • Although some exceptions, i.e. Web-enhanced-objects, DOI: 10.1021/ja061400a
• Or it may be (expensively, and lossily) recovered by the Primary/Tertiary Publishers own processes
• Author pays for what they had in the first place but threw away!