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The Metadata Research Center, located at the College of Computing & Informatics (CCI), Drexel University, leads and innovates metadata solutions for pressing information/data-oriented challenges. Metadata, semantics, and ontologies are vital for effectively and efficiently using and manipulating data. The MRC is committed to advancing research in these areas, formalizing metadata-driven methods and approaches, and vitalizing our capacities for using data across all sectors. Read More
News & Events
December, 2024, Yuan An led Knowledge Graph Workshop, and Joel Pepper presented, at IEEE Big Data 2024 in Washington, DC
October, 2024, John Kunze presents at DCMI 2024 on ARK persistent identifiers and the YAMZ metadictionary
September, 2024, Kio Polson Presents on HIVE4MAT at SeMatS workshop during SEMANTICS 2024 conference in Amsterdam
Recent Publications
Pepper, J., Jones, E., Zhao, X., Furst, J., Langlois, K., Uribe-Romo, F., Breen, D., Greenberg, J. (2024). AI-Ready Data: Knowledge Extraction from Archival Lab Notebooks. IEEE International Conference on Big Data, pages 2489–2495. doi.org/10.1109/BigData62323.2024.10825206
Greenberg, J., Boveda-Aguirre, P., …, McClellan, S., Tadmor, E. (2025/Preprint). Towards MatCore: A Unified Metadata Standard for Materials Science. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07106
Employment Opportunities
Undergraduate Researcher: Knowledge Extraction from Archival Lab Notebooks
Undergraduate HCI Programmer: YAMZ Crowdsourced Vocabulary Builder