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2023 November 6 ^th to November 9 ^th DCMI 2023 Daegu, South Korea

DCMI 2023, the twenty-first International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, will embrace the whole spectrum of innovation in metadata design, implementation, and best practices, with a special focus on challenges and opportunities in a data-intensive world.

News

B.M. Watson wins the DCMI-2023 Student Forum Award

B. M. Watson from the University of British Columbia School of Information wins the DCMI 2023 Student Forum Award for their proposal, 'The Trans Metadata Collective' (TMDC). TMDC intends to enhance the representation and inclusion of trans and gender-diverse communities in cultural heritage institutions.

November 10, 2023

News

DCMI hosts SKOS-Thes, a namespace based on ISO 25964

DCMI is providing a new home for SKOS-Thes, a namespace that extends SKOS on the basis of the ISO 25964 data model. The ISO 25964 standard, published in 2011, covers all aspects of developing thesauri and setting up mappings across vocabularies to encourage high quality information retrieval across networked resources.

October 6, 2023

Webinars

AI & NLP for Open-Source Archival Linked Data Workflows

Join our webinar to harness AI and NLP for efficient archival linked data creation. Explore computer vision, NLP, and Python techniques to transform metadata into linked data, saving time and uncovering hidden collection details. Gain insights on tools for automatic data generation, appreciate the value of linked data in rediscovery, and learn its role as a new gateway to your collections.

October 19, 2023

Themes

The activities of DCMI, its members and its communities are broadly characterised under four themes.

Stewardship: DCMI develops and curates open-standard metadata vocabularies such as the Dublin Core; hosts the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI); and provides good-neighbor support for other related metadata activities.
Community: DCMI's international community of metadata practitioners and experts meet in working groups and at an annual conference to share implementation experience and reports on research and new developments.
Learning: Teachers and experts of metadata technologies from around the world hold tutorials, online meetings, and webinars to discuss and disseminate innovative metadata solutions.
Development: Since pioneering the Application Profile in the 1990s, DCMI continues to develop profiles and related vocabularies spanning practical techniques such as spreadsheets and modern technologies such as data shapes.