Better metadata, better decisions: how the Dutch Barcelona Declaration signatories monitor and improve their open research information

Poster presented at the 2026 Conference of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information (Berlin, 24–25 November 2026). We don’t fill in ORCIDs and RORs for the sake of ORCIDs and RORs: better metadata gives institutions analyses and strategic reports they can trust. In the PID to Portal project (SURF, funded by Universities of the Netherlands, 2025–2026), the Dutch signatories of the Barcelona Declaration co-designed the ORI data quality dashboard. Starting from 14 use cases from 10 organisations, it compares institutional CRIS data with OpenAlex, OpenAIRE and Crossref on four dimensions (coverage, completeness, enrichment and accuracy), and suggests interventions to close the gaps, scored on effort and impact. Eighteen organisations take part. The poster invites signatories to compare approaches and build a shared list of interventions together. Behind the dashboard is a fully open stack: a public data lake (DuckLake, Parquet, SURF Object Store) with OpenAlex, OpenAIRE, CRIS and OpenAPC data, with AI tools to query it in plain language. Project website with all deliverables: https://surf-ori.github.io/pid2portal-project/ORI dashboard: https://ori-dashboard.surf.nl/