Upcoming Courses

Enhance your metadata management skills with our upcoming expert-led courses.

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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RDF and JSON-LD for metadata

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a standard model for data interchange on the Web, facilitating data integration. JSON-LD is a lightweight Linked Data format based on the JSON data format that supports data interoperability at Web-scale. This course explores the core concepts of RDF and unravels the expressive capabilities of JSON-LD in semantic data representation.

Instructor

Alvaro Lopez-Bustamante

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

BIBFRAME Part 1

The Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) data model provides a foundation for the future of bibliographic description, grounded in Linked Data techniques. This class explores the conceptual framework and fundamental elements of BIBFRAME, helping participants navigate and leverage the dynamic landscape of BIBFRAME.

Instructor

Alvaro Lopez-Bustamante

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