CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED DEADLINE

Special track on METADATA & SEMANTICS FOR OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES &
INFRASTRUCTURES at MTSR 2011
http://ieru.org/org/mtsr2011/OAR/

Part of the Fifth International Conference on Metadata and Semantic
Research (MTSR'11)
Yasar University, October 12-October 14, 2011, Izmir (Turkey)
http://www.mtsr2011.org

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MOTIVATION

Handling metadata and semantics in open access repositories and
infrastructures is becoming increasingly challenging due to emerging
requirements like repositories of scientific data sets, interoperability
of repositories with external services and applications, capturing
research context (projects, funding programmes, research infrastructures)
in addition to research output, metadata management in research
infrastructures across disciplines, application of semantic web
technologies in repositories, digital preservation.
Taming the complexity of metadata and semantics in open access
infrastructures is a major challenge and the subject of intense ongoing
activities worldwide. The impact of these efforts can be very significant,
including aspects like enhanced interoperability of open access
repositories with repositories, aggregators as well as external services
and applications, reduced cost of information exchange and integration,
wide re-use of repository data and services across disciplines and
availability of high quality, reliable value-added services over
repositories.

AIM

The aim of this Special Track is to bring together researchers and
practitioners that are working on open access repositories and data
management in research infrastructures.
The track will serve as a discussion forum for experts to present recent
results and experiences, establish liaisons with other groups, and reflect
on the state-of-the-art of metadata and semantic aspects of open access
repositories and infrastructures.

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TOPICS

Topics include but are not limited to the following:

- Information standards and specifications for open access repositories
- Information exchange, aggregation and integration in open access
infrastructures
- Interoperability in open access infrastructures
- Open access infrastructures for scientific data
- Metadata schemas and application profiles
- Multilingual vocabularies, taxonomies, glossaries and thesauri
- Support of advanced features for repository metadata: compound objects,
complex relationships, handling heterogeneous content, versioning, etc.
- Information mining and extraction in open access repositories
- Application of semantic web technologies in open access repositories and
infrastructures
- Metadata quality in repositories and infrastructures
- Mechanisms and infrastructures for persistent identification of entities
(e.g. digital objects, people, organisations) and authority control in
metadata
- Digital preservation workflows and mechanisms and impact on metadata
- Metadata and knowledge representation in research infrastructures across
disciplines
- Metadata and semantics for grey literature repositories
- Metadata and semantics for research information – interoperability
of open access repositories and CRIS
- Value-added services based on repository metadata

IMPORTANT DATES

2011, July 1st: paper submission (EXTENDED DEADLINE)
2011, July 20th: acceptance/rejection notification
2011, July 31th: camera-ready papers due
2011, October 12th-14th: MTSR'11 in Izmir-Turkey.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed)

- Donatella Castelli, Institute of Information Science and Technologies -
Italian National Research Council (ISTI-CNR), Italy
- Les Carr, University of Southampton, UK
- Gordon Dunshire, University of Strathclyde, UK
- David Giaretta, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
- Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens, Greece
- Kris Jack, Mendeley, UK
- Keith Jeffery, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
- Brigitte Joerg, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
(DFKI), Germany
- Thomas Krichel, Palmer School of Library and Information Science - Long
Island University (USA)
- Daniela Luzi, Institute for Population and Social Policy Research -
Italian National Research Council (IRPPS-CNR), Italy
- Paolo Manghi, Institute of Information Science and Technologies -
Italian National Research Council (ISTI-CNR), Italy
- Natalia Manola, University of Athens, Greece
- Nikos Manouselis, University of Alcala, Spain, and Agro-Know
Technologies (Greece)
- Brian Matthews, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
- Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete and ICS-FORTH, Greece
- Antonella De Robbio, University of Padova, Italy
- Eloy Rodrigues, University of Minho, Portugal
- Joachim Schoepfel, University of Lille, France
- Panagiotis Stathopoulos, National Documentation Centre, Greece
- Yannis Tzitzikas, University of Crete and ICS-FORTH, Greece
- Peter Wittenburg, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The
Netherlands
- Marcia Zeng, Kent State University, USA

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SUBMISSIONS

Interested authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short
papers (6 pages) reporting on either mature or ongoing research. Papers
should be original and not previously submitted to other venues. More
information on submission can be found at the conference web site.


PUBLICATION

The submissions to the Special Track will be reviewed by at least two
members of the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the
book of MTSR'11 proceedings by Springer (CCIS Series).

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SELECTION OF BEST PAPERS TO BE INCLUDED IN:

* Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems
[http://www.emeraldinsight.com/prog.htm] (indexed by ISI Thompson)

* International Journal of Metadata Semantics and Ontologies
[http://www.inderscience.com/ijmso] indexed by Scopus

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Looking forward to seeing you in Izmir!

SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS

* Imma Subirats, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(Italy)
* Nikos Houssos, National Documentation Centre (Greece)