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Continuing an unbroken sequence of more than twenty years of DCMI Annual Conferences.
Workshops (1995–2000)
The foundational Dublin Core workshops that established the metadata standard.
Webinars & Tutorials
Occasional webinars and online tutorials orgainized by the DCMI.
DCMI is defined by its community which is responsible for the innovative developments and evolving good practices.
DCMI Education Committee
The DCMI Education Committee coordinates activities and publications that teach and inform users about current developments and technologies for metadata.
The LRMI™ Working Group is charged with defining and executing DCMI work on the LRMI family of metadata specifications.
Application Profiles Working Group
Working Group for a revised framework to support application profiles, a revised abstract model, and core vocabulary of components and constraints.
The Dublin Core Papers repository is an open access resource for scholarly articles and technical papers.
Occasional blog posts report on developments in metadata innovation and practice.
The DCMI approach to metadata aims at achieving pragmatic interoperability among traditional and newer technologies on the basis of knowledge graph design principles.
Dublin Core™ User Guide
A basic guide in the use of Dublin Core and other DCMI vocabularies.
A guide to terminology used in the DCMI community, past and present, with reflections on how our language for talking about metadata has evolved.
Archived LRMI resources including presentations, reports, and implementations.
DCMI 2027, the twenty-seventh International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, will be hosted by the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (FHGR) in Chur, Switzerland, from Monday, October 11 to Saturday, October 16, 2027.
AI-Driven Metadata Workflows and Governance
Findings from two surveys — on AI's impact on metadata practices (n=752) and on academic librarians' skills (n=155) — and what they mean for metadata workflows, competencies and governance.
Sweden’s national union catalogue search is now built on linked data
Sweden’s national union catalogue Libris has launched a new search interface built fully on linked data, replacing MARC with BIBFRAME 2.0 and placing KB at the forefront of the transition.
Generating Smart Data for Cultural Heritage in the AI Era
Explore the opportunities and challenges of generating smart data for diverse cultural heritage resources using AI, including processing manuscripts, symbols, images, sound, scent, museum objects, and rock arts.
The activities of DCMI, its members and its communities are broadly characterised under four themes.
The National Library Board of Singapore
The National Library of Finland
The National Library of Korea
University of Toronto Libraries
Stanford University Libraries
National Library of Sweden
Göttingen State and University Library
The National Library of Portugal
University of Edinburgh
DCMI is an organization supporting innovation in metadata design and best practices across the metadata ecology.
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