Curating Data from/to Publishers in Latvia: paradigm shift in metadata reuse exploiting new Portal for Publishers

This paper describes how introduction of a new tool – the National Library of Latvia (NLL) Portal for Publishers (Portal) – has affected data management that involves publishers and the NLL who have been using it to perform day-to-day tasks since 2018. Data submitted and created in the Portal later are reused for the purpose of the national bibliography and union catalogue, national digital library, legal deposit copy distribution, gathering and distributing publishing statistics, doing research, management and remuneration for reprographic reproduction etc. The introduction of the Portal has strengthened the cooperation between publishers and the NLL as well as provided the technological basis for implementation and development of automated metadata creation and reuse, and other processes that save a lot of redundant manual work.