Training Programs

Explore our comprehensive training programs designed to enhance your metadata competencies

DC Academy offers two primary training program types designed to enhance your metadata competencies and technical expertise.

Standards-Oriented Program

Focuses on enhancing competencies in metadata standards applicable to cultural institutions and other domains.

Sample courses include:

  • BIBFRAME
  • Europeana Data Model
  • Getty Controlled Vocabularies
  • Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)

Technology-Oriented Program

Standards-neutral courses that focus on technology applicable across multiple standards.

Sample courses include:

  • Prompt engineering with AI tools
  • Linked Data and Metadata (JSON-LD)
  • Basic Query Language (SQLite)
  • RDF and SPARQL

Course Levels and Certification

Courses are grouped by difficulty level, with each level providing a corresponding certificate upon completion.

Beginner Level

Basic metadata competency

Intermediate Level

Intermediate metadata competency

Advanced Level

Advanced metadata competency

About DC Academy: DC Academy is part of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), an organization supporting innovation in metadata design and best practices across the metadata ecology.