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.