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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, 2025, Robert Sammarco, Jane Greenberg, and Dave Breen presented at the 19th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research in Thessaloniki, Greece.
October, 2025, Scott McClellan and Dr. Dave Breen presented research at the ID4 All Hands meeting at Colorado School of Mines. Read more here.
August, 2025, Summer REUs Addy Ireland and Zach Siapno present at the ID4 Summer Meeting at Northwestern University. Read more here.
Recent Publications
Pepper, J., Uribe-Romo, F., Siapno, Z., Breen, D., Furst, J. & Greenberg, J. (2025). From Analog Records to Computational Research Data: Building the AI-Ready Lab Notebook,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data. (In Press) https://ai-collaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/S13217.pdf
An, Y., Hashmi, R., Rogers, M., Greenberg, J., & Smith, B. K. (2025). Rate-Distortion Guided Knowledge Graph Construction from Lecture Notes Using Gromov-Wasserstein Optimal Transport. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2511.14595
Employment Opportunities
Undergraduate HCI Programmer: YAMZ Crowdsourced Vocabulary Builder