As vast stores of research metadata built on persistent identifiers (PIDs) continue to grow, challenges around data siloing and inconsistent metadata quality have become increasingly evident. While various stakeholders-libraries, publishers, repositories, and discovery systems-have made significant localized efforts to address these issues, a unified, scalable approach has been missing. The Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) emerged to fill this gap, convening a series of community-driven engagements in late 2024 and early 2025 to chart a collaborative way forward. This session will highlight how COMET is transforming isolated metadata curation efforts into collective value through the development of an open infrastructure service. The service will enable stakeholders to surface, share, and contribute validated metadata improvements, enhancing the quality and interoperability of the scholarly communications ecosystem. The presentation will provide insights into COMET's progress, including identified use cases, governance models, and upcoming pilot projects, while inviting further collaboration from the community.
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