The extent of the role of publishers in the OA metadata movement
would depend on how involved they want to be in creating metadata.
Publishers could hire catalogers on staff to create high-quality cataloging
records for their items. This seems less likely since content is a publisher's
main concern, whereas vendors on the other hand, could add value such
as aggregation, platforms, and metadata. Publishers could instead clean
up the information that they provide to vendors about their items,
which would help vendors create higher quality records. This is needed
since sometimes the information vendors receive is incomplete or incorrect,
such as ISBN numbers, titles and publication year.