DCMI community updates

DCMI Academy activities (Season2, November 2025 ~ June 2026)

This edited book entitled “AI and the Transformation of Metadata Research and Practices – Global and Regional Perspectives” deals with the evolving landscape of AI applications for metadata creation and management by examining its potential benefits; addressing challenges and concerns; and exploring future trends. It aims to bridge knowledge gaps in the field by providing evidence-based insights and showcasing a diverse range of worldwide applications. It explores the anticipated impact of AI and its acceptance by metadata professionals worldwide, along with considering the transition from manual cataloguing to AI-integrated roles. A primary focus is the transformation of unstructured, intangible cultural heritage content into structured, machine-actionable knowledge, while ensuring that semantic and cultural nuances are preserved. The socio-technical issues of AI in metadata, ranging from multilingual extraction to morpho-translation are addressed. This work emphasises the need for combining human-in-the-loop workflows with robust governance frameworks to mitigate risks such as the authentication crisis of synthetic media (deepfakes), bias, hallucination and epistemic injustice. By serving as an indispensable resource for library and information science professionals, researchers, and students, the text hopes to realize AI's potential by ensuring that the AI implementation in metadata practices is both responsibly managed and beneficial to the community.

Stanford University Libraries are a large network of over 20 academic campus libraries serving the Stanford community and beyond. We have long championed open source applications and open metadata, and are currently working, as part of the Blue Core initiative, to move to an linked open metadata environment based on the Library of Congress' BIBFRAME ontology, complementing our concurrent work in open-access scholarly communications initiatives. Stanford joined DCMI in 2023, and found here a rich space and community of practice for metadata-related topics where we can share our enthusiasm for open metadata, for interoperability and open information sharing and be inspired by, and learn from, the work of the DCMI community.

This presentation introduces the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) to the DCMI community, with a focus on the units and cross-unit collaborations that make up UTL's metadata and data ecosystem, and a reflection on why DCMI membership matters.

This presentation will provide an update on the Metadata Matters (M2) initiative. It will cover the project's background, rationale, objectives, submission criteria, editorial board, workflow, operational model, pilot test, timeline, and future plans. The presentation will also seek feedback and advice from the board members on the project's direction and implementation.

The DCMI Usage Board is reviewing for publication a new Scholarly Resources Application Profile (SRAP). SRAP uses new properties and classes that are being added to the Bibliographic Ontology (BIBO) namespace.