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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment
4th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'10)
Alcala de Henares, October 20-October 22, 2010
Conference site: http://www.ieru.org/org/mtsr2010/
Special Track site: http://www.athanasiadis.info/mtsr10/
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AIM & TOPICS

The aim of the Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment
of MTSR-10 is to bring together researchers and practitioners that are working on
agricultural and food & environment knowledge production, organization, and exchange
from a Semantic Web perspective.

It aims to serve as a discussion forum where interested experts will present
the results of their work, and establish liaisons with other groups that are
working on related subjects. In addition, it aims to outline the rich potential
of these subjects as an application field for advanced metadata- and semantic-driven
systems and services.

Topics include but are not limited to contributions dealing with the following issues
in the context of agriculture, food & environment:
* Information standards and specifications
* Metadata schemas and application profiles
* Multilingual vocabularies, taxonomies, glossaries and thesauri
* Metadata generation, harvesting, and exchange
* Knowledge acquisition, elicitation and extraction
* Infrastructures, systems and services for knowledge organisation
* Knowledge repositories and archives
* Ontology approaches, models, theories, and languages
* Ontology development, integration, lifecycle, and evaluation
* Management of large ontology-driven knowledge bases

IMPORTANT DATES

1 July 2010: Paper submission (EXTENDED)
15 July 2010: Acceptance notification
30 July 2010: Camera-ready, revised version of accepted papers
20-22 October 2010: MTSR'10 in in Alcala de Henares, Spain

SUBMISSIONS

Interested authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6 pages)
about complete or ongoing research. Papers should be original and not previously submitted
to other venues. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer Book style:
http://www.springer.com/authors/book+authors?SGWID=0-154102-12-417900-0

Please indicate in the abstract or title of the submission that it is intended for
the Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture,Food & Environment.

Submission is available through the EasyChair submission system:
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=mtsr2010

If you haven't an EasyChair account yet, you'll be asked to create it before you can access the MTSR'10 page.

PUBLICATION

Springer will publish MTSR'10 accepted papers in the form a book in the CCIS Series.
In addition, best papers will be selected for publishing revised versions in the form of
a Special Issue at an International Journal.

The proceedings of the previous Special Session on Agricultural Metadata & Semantics for
Agriculture, Food & Environment at MTSR'09 have been published in Vol.46 of the CCIS Series
(http://www.springerlink.com/content/l14141/?p=363466d59cde4af4b4d024c2a9e0730fπ=0).

SPECIAL SESSION CHAIRS

* Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research & Technology Network (Greece)
* Ioannis Athanasiadis, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Switzerland)
* Johannes Keizer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Italy)



ABOUT MTSR-10

The 4th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'10)
will be hosted by the University of Alcal?, Spain from 20th to 22th of October, 2010.
The beautiful and historical city of Alcala is a UNESCO's World Heritage Site
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcal%C3%A1_de_Henares), very close to Madrid.

MTSR'10 targets researchers and practitioners from the fields of metadata and semantics
research as, well as applications of the Semantic Web and related technologies.

See http://www.ieru.org/org/mtsr2010/ for more details on travelling and accomodation.

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