From March 17 to 19, 2026, the openCost team will host the international conference “openCost: Navigating Cost Transparency” at DESY in Hamburg. We welcome poster submissions.
Adjustments to the openCost schema
The project team has made some adjustments to the openCost schema. Among other things, the newly modeled attribute-less schema version enables simple translation into other formats.
Practical report from the openCost project published in O-Bib
A practical report on the openCost lecture, which was held at BiblioCon23, has been published in the current issue of “O-Bib. Das Offene Bibliotheksjournal”.
Schema for transformative agreements and contracts
The openCost team is pleased to present a draft of another metadata schema to the community for discussion.
Succesful data delivery in openCost schema
Data delivery: openCost is pleased to announce that the dataset of FZ Jülich was successfully transferred to OpenAPC in openCost format.
Results of the online discussions
The results of the openCost online discussions with the community
Invitation: Online discussion of the openCost metadata schema
The openCost project team is hosting three online events via Zoom to discuss the recently released metadata schema for recording and mapping cost data with the community. We hereby invite all interested parties to participate in the discussion.
openCost: Metadata schema published with request for comments
The openCost team is publishing a draft metadata schema for capturing cost data as an RFC and is soliciting feedback from the community.