This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2020, held in Madrid, Spain, in December 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. 

The 24 full and 13 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The papers are organized in the following tracks: metadata, linked data, semantics and ontologies; metadata and semantics for digital libraries, information retrieval, big, linked, social and open data; metadata and semantics for agriculture, food, and environment, AgroSEM 2020; metadata and semantics for open repositories, research information systems and data infrastructures; digital humanities and digital curation, DHC 2020; metadata and semantics for cultural collections and applications; european and national projects; knowledge IT artifacts (KITA) in professional communities and aggregations, KITA 2020.