**Aim and Scope**

The aim of the track on European and National Projects of the 11th MTSR 2017 is to promote collaboration, networking, knowledge sharing and output dissemination among EU and non-EU projects related to metadata, semantics, ontologies, research information systems, data infrastructures, linked and big data, open repositories and digital libraries research. In particular, the objectives of this track are:

* To bring together representatives from different EU and non-EU projects for the purpose of knowledge sharing, problem solving, collaboration and brainstorming.
* To provide the opportunity for representatives of these projects to engage with conference participants, disseminate research output and receive feedback, or seek collaboration and expertise.
* To identify new opportunities for EU and non-EU-funded metadata, semantics and digital libraries research.


**Important Dates**

*July 10th 2017: Paper submission deadline (extended)
*July 31st, 2017: Notification of acceptance
*August 27th, 2017: Camera-ready papers due
*November 28th –December 1st, 2017: Conference in Tallinn University, Tallinn (Estonia)


**Paper Submissions**

Interested authors can submit to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mtsr2017

The following types of presentation are invited:
*Full papers (12 pages) reporting complete research
*Short papers (6 pages) presenting ongoing or preliminary research
*Posters (4 pages)

Papers should be original and not previously submitted to other Conferences or Journals. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity following a double-blind peer review process. Submissions associated by any MTSR member (e.g. Chairs and PC members of MTSR or any of its Tracks) will follow a double-blind peer review process by an independent review committee.

Submitted papers have to follow the LNCS proceedings formatting style and guidelines. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to register to the Conference and present their work in the form of either oral presentation or poster presentation. The Conference welcomes Workshops and Tutorial on any issues concerning the main themes of MTSR such as metadata, ontologies, Semantic Web, knowledge management, software engineering and digital libraries.


**Conference Proceedings**

Proceedings will be published by Springer in Vol. 755 of the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) book series. CCIS is abstracted/indexed in Scopus, SCImago, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, DBLP, Google Scholar. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.


**Other Publication Opportunities**

Selected papers might be considered for a revised and extended version to be published in a range of international journals, including the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (Inderscience) and Program (Emerald).


**Awards**

There are two types of awards: the Best Paper Award and the Best Student Paper Award, both sponsored by euroCRIS.

*Best paper award: This award will be presented to the authors of the best full research paper submitted and presented at the conference.
*Best student paper award: MTSR sponsors a paper competition to recognize excellence in a conference paper contribution whose primary author is a student (normally at a PhD or MRes level). The student is required to present the paper at the MTSR 2017 conference.
Submissions are evaluated on their originality, scientific merits, structure, and clarity of composition.


**Special Track Chairs**

* Emmanouel Garoufallou, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thesaloniki, Greece
* Sirje Virkus, Tallinn University, Estonia
* Rania Siatri, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki


**Program Committee**

* Panos Balatsoukas, University of Manchester, UK
* Mike Conway, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
* Jane Greenberg, Drexel University, USA
* R.J. Hartley, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
* Nikos Houssos, RedLink, Greece
* Nikos Korfiatis, University of East Anglia, UK
* Damiana Koutsomiha, American Farm School, Greece
* Paolo Manghi, Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), National Research Council, Italy
* Dimitris Rousidis, University of Alcalá, Spain
* Rania Siatri, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki
* Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain
* Armando Stellato, University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)
* Sirje Virkus, Tallinn University, Estonia
* Stavroula Antonopoulou, Perrotis College, Greece