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Dublin Core Workshops

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Dublin Core Metadata Workshop Series ran from 1995 to 2000, convening information professionals from around the world to develop the Dublin Core metadata standard. These eight foundational workshops established the 15-element Dublin Core that became ISO 15836 and remains one of the most widely used metadata standards.

Generating Smart Data for Cultural Heritage in the AI Era

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Smart data means the trusted, contextualized, relevant, cognitive, predictive, and consumable data at any scale, revealing the most important V(value) of big data. In the new era of AI, smart data may be efficiently processed using AI technology while also being used by AI to generate intelligent applications and produce high-quality data. However, since information-bearing cultural heritage entities are usually non-textual and non-machine-readable, generating smart data for diverse cultural heritage resources presents complexities in data processing. This webinar will bring some special cases in recent innovative research projects in the world, involving processing of manuscripts, symbols, images, sound, scent, museum objects, rock arts, etc.

AI Empowered Metadata Research in Uncertain Environments

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This webinar presents studies on AI empowered metadata research and information analysis in uncertain environments. Metadata research in uncertain environments involves various aspects of events, information, and people. The traditional metadata elements include the time, location, and stakeholders of an event, title, keywords, author and length of information as well as age, gender, and occupation of people, etc. In addition to traditional metadata elements, AI can also dynamically generate implicit metadata, such as semantic features and credibility of textual and visual information, severity levels of events, as well as needs, attentions, opinions, and influence of people, etc.

DCMI 2026 Seoul

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Meaning-Driven AI: Using Metadata to Align Systems with Human Values

National Library of Korea, Seoul
2026 August 3^rd to 7^th

DCMI 2026, the twenty-fourth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, will bring together experts, researchers, and practitioners to explore the theme "Meaning-Driven AI: Using Metadata to Align Systems with Human Values". This premier event in the metadata community focuses on how structured data can capture human preferences, beliefs, and experiences to create intelligent systems that truly understand what people value.

AI and the Transformation of Metadata Research and Practices

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This presentation reports the major findings from a large-scale, multilingual global survey conducted by the DCMI Education Committee AI Task Group, offering a comprehensive analysis of AI adoption in metadata practices from diverse global and regional perspectives. The results indicate a strong consensus toward a positive outlook on AI's role in metadata tasks, with perceived benefits as the most significant factor shaping this optimism. The most pressing challenge identified is a widespread lack of professional AI skills training.

Chinese Students in Archives: Radical Empathy & Metadata

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This webinar explores the representation of early Chinese international students at the University of Illinois, focusing on archival materials and metadata. Using the principle of radical empathy, the study identifies key issues— inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and inappropriateness—affecting discoverability and engagement. Introducing the “Three-I Framework,” the session highlights systemic factors shaping archival records and advocates for holistic, empathetic strategies beyond metadata enhancement to address subtle marginalization and improve access to these historical narratives.

DCMI 2025 Barcelona

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Meta(data) at the Core: Bridging Human Knowledge and AI Innovation

University of Barcelona, Spain
2025 October 19^rd to 25^th

DCMI 2025, the twenty-third International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, will bring together experts, researchers, and practitioners to explore the theme "Meta(data) at the Core: Bridging Human Knowledge and AI Innovation". This premier event in the metadata community focuses on advancing our understanding of metadata's crucial role in connecting human knowledge systems with emerging AI technologies.

Centering LGBTQ+ Voices in Catalog Research

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Libraries are addressing barriers faced by marginalized communities through improved catalog metadata. The Inclusive Catalog Use Lab (ICUL) focuses on user-based research to understand LGBTQ+ needs. Dr. Karen Snow and Dr. Brian Dobreski will share ICUL’s findings, highlighting user studies, focus groups, and solutions to support inclusive access for diverse communities.

Conference Schedule

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

On the Duality of Provenance Metadata

Wed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Explore how metadata is exploited to craft deceptive narratives and influence public discourse on platforms. Explore tactics used by bad actors to manipulate social media and evade content moderation by obfuscating provenance information. Understand metadata's duality in preventing data misuse and its exploitation for disinformation campaigns. Discover connections between responsible data management in open access and potential misuse. Information professionals and researchers play a crucial role by promoting data literacy and critical engagement with digital content.

DCMI 2024 Toronto

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Metadata Innovation: Trust, Transformation, and Humanity

University of Toronto, Canada
2024 October 20^th to 23^rd

DCMI 2024, the twenty-second International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, will focus on the theme of Trust, Transformation, and Humanity. Exploring the intersection of metadata with cutting-edge AI technologies, the conference will examine strategies for ensuring trustworthy AI, combating misinformation, and fostering metadata's role in responsible knowledge representation.

Metadata in Scholarly Research: Collection, Management, and Standardization

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this webinar, Dr. Mayernik will discuss findings and insights from multiple projects focused on metadata collection, management, and standardization within the context of scientific data curation. The webinar will discuss important socio-technical dynamics that influence what metadata get generated in different situations, and how data archives and repositories work to ensure quality and standardization.

AI & NLP for Open-Source Archival Linked Data Workflows

Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Critical Data Modeling

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this DCMI webinar, Dr Karen Wickett will present critical data modeling: the use of data modeling and systems analysis techniques to build critical interrogations of information systems. Dr Wickett will describe the results of critical data modeling of a police arrest record dataset and discuss how conceptual modeling can help us synthesize critical information studies and identify new opportunities for modeling and critique.

DCMI 2023 - Sessions

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

DCMI 2023 - Programme

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

DCMI 2023 Daegu

Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Metadata Innovation: Enabling Knowledge in a Data-Intensive World

Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea.
2023 November 6^th to November 9^th

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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.

Getting Started With SQLite

Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

SQLite is a powerful relational database engine widely used in many applications. SQLite is the most used database engine in the world and implements most of the SQL standards. This webinar will cover the features of SQLite, the basics of SQL, the SQLite file format, the SQLite command line interface, and popular tools for managing and interacting with SQLite databases.

Linking Challenges for Pseudonyms

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This presentation examines and explores how to improve the linking relationships of persons with more than one identity in VIAF, LCNAF (LC National Authority File) and Wikidata through definition comparisons and case studies in terms of the semantic web.

Querying Wikidata: All the Knowledge in the World

Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Knowledge Graphs have become a common asset for representing world knowledge in data driven models and applications. Wikidata is one of the largest crowdsourced Knowledge Graphs, with over 90 million entities and 1.5 billion edges.