About Dublin Core Academy
The mission of the Dublin Core Academy is to provide practical and cutting-edge education on metadata strategy and implementation. We aim to empower professionals and community leaders to harness the full potential of metadata in the digital age.
- Mission
- Dublin Core Academy is designed to reach information professionals at a range of knowledge and experience levels, including aspiring pre-professionals seeking to specialize in metadata, and experienced practitioners in need of skill set updates.
- Community Focus
- We also aim to reach leaders of community archiving projects looking to create metadata about their own cultural heritage objects and educators of metadata in academic and professional settings.
- Course Delivery
- Dublin Core Academy courses are delivered through a 2-hour live online session that focuses on a specific skill or tool related to metadata management and creation. Instructors give background and context, as well as providing students with hands-on exercises designed to build experience with a skill or tool.
- Support
- Students will have access to an online forum to ask questions after the live class session.
Leadership
The Dublin Core Academy is led by a team of experienced professionals dedicated to advancing metadata strategy and implementation.
Jian Qin
Director
Jian Qin is Professor of the iSchool at Syracuse University. She conducts research in metadata, knowledge organization and representation, data and knowledge modeling, ontologies, research collaboration networks, research impact assessment, and data curation. Her research has received funding from U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Institutes for Health, and U.S. Institute for Museum and Library Services. She was the recipient of the 2020 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology.
Inkyung Choi
Associate Director
Inkyung Choi is an associate research scientist for the OCLC Research with a focus on data science and metadata research, and community engagement on next generation cataloging practices.