#dcmi15

Every year the DCMI community gathers for both its Annual Meeting and its International Conference on Dublin Core & Metadata Applications.  The work agenda of the DCMI community is broad and inclusive of all aspects of innovation in metadata design, implementation and best practices.  While the work of the Initiative progresses throughout the year, the Annual Meeting & Conference provides the opportunity for DCMI “citizens” as well as newcomers, students, apprentices, and early career professionals to gather face-to-face to share experiences. In addition, the gathering provides public- and private-sector initiatives beyond DCMI that are doing significant metadata work to come together to compare notes and cast a broader light into their particular metadata work silos. Through such a gathering of the metadata communities, DCMI advances its “first goal” of promoting metadata interoperability and harmonization. This year, the Annual Meeting & Conference is being hosted by the Universidade Estadual Paulista—São Paulo State University » and held in São Paulo, Brazil.