Meaning-Driven AI: Using Metadata to Align Systems with Human Values
2026 August 3 rd to 7 thNational Library of Korea, Seoul
DCMI 2026, the twenty-fourth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, invites researchers, practitioners, and experts from diverse domains to explore the dynamic landscape of metadata in the theme of Meaning-Driven AI: Using Metadata to Align Systems with Human Values. The fast-paced advances in artificial intelligence (AI) create new research opportunities for metadata. While AI has the potential to enhance metadata quality through systematic tasks like error detection and data standardisation, meaning-driven AI explores how structured data can capture human preferences, beliefs, and experiences to create intelligent systems that truly understand what people value.
Metadata has an expanding role in enabling the transparent, trustworthy, and effective representation of data, information, and knowledge, and as a result, is being transformed from simply "data about data" to being data that underpin knowledge. In this expansion of metadata's role, we strive to bring innovative ideas, projects, and practices together that can foster and protect humanity.
DCMI 2026 serves as a unique platform for the discussion of innovative research and practice, presenting visions for future metadata development and solutions to practical metadata problems. Join researchers, practitioners, and experts from a wide range of sectors in a collaborative exploration of metadata's evolving role through your papers, posters, panel discussions, best practice reports, designathon/hackathon, workshops, and more.
DCMI 2026 will feature exclusively in-person meetings.