Completed Courses

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RDF and JSON-LD for metadata

Embark on a transformative learning experience with our RDF and JSON-LD for metadata course. In just 120 minutes, this course unlocks the intricacies of RDF and JSON-LD, the fundamental elements underpinning the BIBFRAME standard for bibliographic description. Immerse yourself exploring the core concepts of RDF—triples, subject-predicate-object relationships—and unraveling the expressive capabilities of JSON-LD in semantic data representation through JSON syntax.

There will also be practical examples, walking through RDF instances in bibliographic descriptions and showcasing the application of JSON-LD to express RDF triplets. Solidify your skills in a concise exercise setup and engage in a comprehensive Q&A session for any lingering questions or discussions. Leave RDF and JSON-LD for metadata with a higher understanding of RDF and JSON-LD, setting the stage for further exploration in the dynamic world of linked data."

About the Instructor

Álvaro López-Bustamante

Universidad de Concepcion Libraries

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Álvaro López has a Library Sciences bachelor degree, and holds a Master's degree in Applied Linguistics. He has over 15 years of experience in academic libraries, and he led the implementation of Bibframe at the University of Concepción in Chile. He currently works at Ebsco as an advisor for the FOLIO community in Latin America.

Fee: $25 for DCMI & ASIST members, $100 for others

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Practical Data Serialization for Metadata

This course is a hands-on workshop designed for practitioners and researchers who work with metadata in describing and representing information resources in digital and/or physical forms. The course provides an overview of fundamentals for data serialization formats—XML, JSON, and CSV—commonly used in metadata workflows, alongside practical strategies and examples for processing and transforming metadata between formats. By completing this course, participants will gain practical experience using tools such as OpenRefine and online parsers to clean and convert metadata, as well as skills to efficiently manage, transform, and share metadata for improved interoperability and reuse.

Instructor

Inkyung Choi

Fee: $25 for DCMI & ASIST members, $100 for others

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Inaugural Webinar: Metadata, Linked Data, and AI

As powerful and useful as AI and ML tools, there are risks in applying them if they are not sufficiently explainable, robust, transparent, or not stick to the fairness and privacy principles, which can seriously jeopardize the trustworthiness of AI. Metadata and linked data technologies and methods play an important role in capturing, linking, and documenting the data (input & output), parameters, models, environment configurations, and versions of data and models. All of these contribute to the trustworthiness of AI. This presentation reviews the requirements for trustworthy AI as well as metadata categories that have been used in representing trustworthy AI. Through examples, issues and challenges will be discussed for AI applications in metadata generation/creation.

Presenter

Jian Qin

Fee: Free

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