The Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media hosts the DCMI 2025 international conference on AI and metadata
The rector of the University of Barcelona inaugurated the meeting, which brings together experts from the universities of Toronto, Oxford and Stanford, among others, to discuss open, human and transparent AI.
The rector of the University of Barcelona inaugurated the meeting, which brings together experts from the universities of Toronto, Oxford and Stanford, among others, to discuss open, human and transparent AI.
Wednesday, the University of Barcelona hosted the opening of the 23rd International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DCMI 2025), at the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media (FIMA), the leading annual event on metadata, interoperability and best practices in information management.
The rector of the UB, Joan Guàrdia, attended the event. He emphasized the role of the University as a space for reflection on the challenges posed by artificial intelligence and the need to address them through open-access knowledge and social responsibility.
The conference, under the slogan “(Meta)data at the Core: Bridging Human Knowledge and AI Innovation”, is taking place in Barcelona from 19 to 25 October and is part of an international week of events co-organized by the FIMA and the University of Toronto, Stanford University and DCMI. The programme includes Document Society 2025 and the Stanford Open Metadata Clinic, meetings dedicated to exploring the role of documents, data and metadata in the development of a more open, understandable and common-good-oriented AI.
Núria Ferran, professor at the Department of Library and Information Science and Audiovisual Communication and president of this edition of the DCMI, highlighted the importance of metadata as a key element in connecting human knowledge with innovation in AI, and also stressed the need to approach technological development from an ethical, open and transparent perspective.
The students and teaching staff at FIMA played a prominent role at the conference, presenting papers on the application of the Dublin Core standard in heritage repositories, the evaluation of the quality of editorial metadata, and the design of inclusive data architectures with hybrid AI. The presence of the UB in this conference consolidates FIMA’s role as a leader in research in information, documentation and digital media, and reinforces its commitment to AI at the service of knowledge and society.