The State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine continues to advance the development of open scientific infrastructure and the integration of Ukrainian science into the international research information space.

Within the framework of the activities of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, new documents dedicated to open funding metadata for scientific research have been published. The initiative brings together an international community of organizations working on the development of open, standardized, and interoperable research information.

The new materials prepared by the Working Group on Funding Metadata focus on improving the quality of research funding data and provide recommendations on how research organizations, funding agencies, publishers, and infrastructure platforms can ensure the openness and standardization of such information.

Among the published documents are:

• Improving the Quality of Open Funding Metadata: A Call to Action
• Improving the Quality of Open Funding Metadata: Background and Detailed Recommendations

The documents were developed following the international Community Round Table on Funding Metadata, co-organized with Crossref in October 2025, as well as through the ongoing collaboration of the WG3 community.

The initiative aims to ensure that information about research funding — grants, funding organizations, projects, and research outputs — becomes:

• open;
• standardized;
• suitable for automated exchange between systems;
• complete and reliable for international analytics and research monitoring.

The working group focuses on four key areas:

• standardization of funding information in scholarly publications;
• open exchange of grant data between funding bodies and platforms;
• expansion of open funding metadata practices across different world regions;
• development of an entity-relationship model connecting grants, researchers, institutions, projects, and research outputs.

For the SSTL of Ukraine, this direction is particularly important in the context of the development of URIS as a national CRIS system. The integration of structured funding data makes it possible to treat grants as a full-fledged component of research infrastructure and to establish connections between projects, researchers, institutions, publications, and datasets.

Such an approach contributes to the transition from simple accounting of scientific activity toward the creation of a comprehensive network model of Ukraine’s scientific ecosystem that is compatible with international open science standards.

Libraries and infrastructure institutions play a particularly important role in this architecture by ensuring data quality, standardization, and interoperability through the use of international identifiers, including ORCID for researchers, ROR for institutions, and DOI for research outputs.

The materials are available on the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information website and in the Zenodo repository.