diff --git a/main/tests/data/example_project_metadata.json b/main/tests/data/example_project_metadata.json
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+++ b/main/tests/data/example_project_metadata.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{"_customMetadata":{},"created":"2018-10-12T10:24:28Z","tags":[],"importOptionMetadata":[{"guessCellValueTypes":false,"projectTags":[""],"ignoreLines":-1,"processQuotes":true,"fileSource":"query.tsv","encoding":"","separator":"\\t","storeBlankCellsAsNulls":true,"storeBlankRows":true,"skipDataLines":0,"includeFileSources":false,"headerLines":1,"limit":-1,"quoteCharacter":"\"","projectName":"CPVs"}],"creator":"","contributors":"","subject":"","rowCount":289,"preferenceStore":{"entries":{"scripting.starred-expressions":{"top":2147483647,"list":[],"class":"com.google.refine.preference.TopList"},"scripting.expressions":{"top":100,"list":[],"class":"com.google.refine.preference.TopList"}}},"modified":"2018-10-12T10:51:41Z","description":"","name":"CPVs","dirty":false,"title":"","homepage":"","image":"","license":"","version":""}
diff --git a/main/tests/server/src/com/google/refine/tests/io/ProjectMetadataTests.java b/main/tests/server/src/com/google/refine/tests/io/ProjectMetadataTests.java
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+++ b/main/tests/server/src/com/google/refine/tests/io/ProjectMetadataTests.java
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+package com.google.refine.tests.io;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+
+import com.google.refine.model.metadata.ProjectMetadata;
+import com.google.refine.tests.util.TestUtils;
+
+public class ProjectMetadataTests {
+	@Test
+	public void serializeProjectMetadata() throws IOException {
+		ProjectMetadata metadata = new ProjectMetadata();
+		InputStream f = ProjectMetadataTests.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("example_project_metadata.json");
+		String json = IOUtils.toString(f);
+		f = ProjectMetadataTests.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("example_project_metadata.json");
+        metadata.loadFromStream(f);
+        TestUtils.isSerializedTo(metadata, json);
+	}
+}