2025 October 20 th to 25 th
DCMI 2025
Barcelona, Spain

DCMI 2025, the twenty-third International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, will be hosted at the University of Barcelona, Spain, from Wednesday, October 22 to Saturday, October 25. Related events will be held by the Document Society (on Monday, October 20) and the Open Metadata Clinic event (on Tuesday, October 21).

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.