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MTSR 2018 : 12th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research

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Conference Series : Metadata and Semantics Research
 
Link: http://mtsr-conf.org
 
When Oct 23, 2018 - Oct 26, 2018
Where Limassol, Cyprus
Submission Deadline Jun 15, 2018
Notification Due Jul 27, 2018
Final Version Due Aug 24, 2018
Categories    metadata   linked data   ontologies   semantics
 

Call For Papers

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MOTIVATION

The 12th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'18) will be held at Cyprus University of Technology in Cyprus, between 23-26 October 2018.
MTSR is an annual international inter-disciplinary conference which brings together academics, researchers and practitioners in the specialized fields of metadata, ontologies and semantics research. The conference provides an opportunity for participants to share knowledge and novel approaches in the implementation of semantic technologies across diverse types of information environments and applications. These include Open Access Repositories and Digital Libraries, Cultural Informatics, Digital Humanities, E-learning applications, Search Engine Optimization and Information Retrieval, Research Information Systems and Infrastructures, e-Science and e-Social Science applications, Agriculture, Food and Environment, Bio-Health & Medical Information Systems.

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TOPICS

Contributions are welcome on Metadata in general, Ontologies, Semantic Web, Linked Data, Automatic Metadata Generation, Open-Access Repositories, Digital Libraries, Knowledge Management, Software Engineering, Cultural Informatics, Digital Humanities, E-learning applications, Information Retrieval, e-Science and e-Social Science applications, Agriculture, Food and Environment, Bio-Health and Medical Information Systems, including but not limited to:

I. Foundations

Typology of metadata and metadata implementations
The value and cost of metadata
Quality evaluation in the use of Metadata
Metadata reusability
New or revised metadata schemas or application profiles
Metadata standardization
Empirical studies on metadata and/or ontologies usage

II. Languages and Frameworks for Metadata Management

SGML, XML, UML in theory and practice
Languages and Frameworks for Ontology Management
Metadata and the Semantic Web
Metadata and Knowledge Management
Metadata and Software Engineering
Metadata application of Semantic Web technologies
Ontologies and Ontology-based Knowledge Management Systems

III. Case Studies

Metadata and ontologies for librarianship, management of historical archives and archeological research
Metadata and ontologies for the design of innovative products and processes
Metadata and ontologies for health, biological and clinical information management
Metadata and ontologies in finance, tourism and public administrations
Metadata and ontologies in industry
Metadata and ontologies in education
Metadata and ontologies in agriculture, food and environment

IV. Technological Issues

Technologies for:
Metadata and ontology storage, Metadata and ontology integration, Metadata extraction and navigation, querying and editing of ontologies
Learning Objects management
Search engines, Localization & Visualization
Mobile challenges

V. Digital Libraries, Big Data and Information Retrieval

Ontologies and SKOS
Linked Data and its applications
Information visualization
Metadata quality
Digital curation
Impact and evaluation of DL
Use and re-use of digital data
Data mining
Multilingual IR
User behavior and modeling
Big Data semantics, search and mining
Reasoning on Big Data

VI. Tutorials and Workshops

You can bring in your ideas for tutorials. If you are interested in a particular topic, please let us know by sending an email to: mtsr.conference@gmail.com. Submit your proposal to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mtsr2018).

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SPECIAL TRACKS

Part of the conference are special tracks focusing on particular domains or topics. Papers submitted to tracks undergo the same review procedures and are published in the same proceedings as those accepted for the main track.

Tracks currently being organized:

• Agriculture, Food & Environment
• Cultural Collections & Applications
• Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval, Linked & Social Data
• European and National Projects
• Open Repositories, Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures
• Digital Humanities and Digital Curation
• Knowledge IT Artifacts (KITA) in professional communities and aggregations


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SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

The following types of submissions are invited:
• Full papers (12 pages) reporting complete research
• Short papers (6 pages) presenting ongoing or preliminary research
• Posters (4 pages)
• Proposals for tutorials and workshops (2 pages)
Submissions 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. Submitted papers have to follow the LNCS proceedings formatting style and guidelines (ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/instruct/authors/authors.pdf). Authors of accepted submissions will be asked to register to the Conference and present their work in the form of either oral presentation or poster presentation.

Interested authors can submit to EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mtsr2018

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CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Proceedings will be published by Springer in 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.

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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), currently published as Data Technologies and Applications.

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AWARDS

There are two types of awards: the Best paper award and the Best student paper award, both sponsored by euroCRIS (http://www.eurocris.org/).

• Best paper award: This award will be presented to the authors of the best full research paper submitted and presented to 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 2016 conference. Submissions are evaluated on their originality, scientific merits, structure, and clarity of composition.

The author of an awarded paper, and co-authors if any, will be entitled to:

• Receive a signed and stamped official award certificate by the conference organizers
• Promote their achievement on MTSR conference webpage, and MTSR Social Media
• Get invited to submit an extended and revised version of the awarded paper for publication in the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (Inderscience) (http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijmso)
Each award comes with the prize of a free access/registration to next years’ MTSR, including all conference materials, together with the printed/digital conference proceedings
This voucher for each award for free registration is valid only for one author, in case of many co-authors, of the awarded paper, and only for the MTSR conference that follows the year after receiving the award.

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ORGANISATION:

GENERAL CHAIRS
Emmanouel Garoufallou, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece
Fabio Sartori, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

PROGRAMME CHAIRS
• Ernesto William De Luca, Georg Eckert-Institute – Leibniz-Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany
• Athena Salaba, Kent State University, USA

LOCAL ORGANISATION CHAIR
• Marios Zervas, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

WORKSHOP, TUTORIAL AND DEMONSTRATIONS CHAIR
• Getaneh Alemu, Southampton Solent University, United Kingdom

SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS
• Paolo Bianchini, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
• Miguel-Ángel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain
• Armando Stellato, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
• Angela Locoro, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• Arlindo Flavio da Conceição, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil
• Nikos Houssos, IRI, Greece
• Michalis Sfakakis, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian University, Greece
• Lina Bountouri, Ionian University and Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg
• Emmanouel Garoufallou, Alexander Technological Educational Institute (ATEI) of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Sirje Virkus, Tallinn University, Estonia
• Rania Siatri, Alexander Technological Educational Institute (ATEI) of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Ernesto William De Luca, Georg Eckert-Institute – Leibniz-Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany
• Fabio Sartori, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

STEERING COMMITTEE
• Juan Manuel Dodero, University of Cádiz, Spain
• Emmanouel Garoufallou, Alexander Technological Educational Institute (ATEI) of • Thessaloniki, Greece
• Nikos Manouselis, AgroKnow, Greece
• Fabio Santori, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• Miguel-Ángel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
• Pavlos Metaxas, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Stephani Liasi, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Maria Haraki, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Stamatios Giannoulakis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Eleni Kamberi, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Nasia Panagiotou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Marina Antoniou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Alexia Kounoudes, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Antonia Nikolaou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Damiana Koutsomiha, American Farm School, Greece
• Anxhela Dani, Alexander Technological Educational Institute (ATEI) of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Chrysanthi Chatzopoulou, Alexander Technological Educational Institute (ATEI) of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Iro Sotiriadou, American Farm School, Greece

TECHNICAL SUPPORT STAFF
• Ilias Nitsos, Alexander Technological Educational Institute (ATEI) of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Petros Artemi, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS (TBC)
• Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway
• Arif Altun, Hacettepe University, Turkey
• Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
• Panos Balatsoukas, University of Manchester, UK
• Tomaz Bartol, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Ina Bluemel, German National Library of Science and Technology TIBm, Germany
• Derek Bousfield, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• Gerhard Budin, University of Vienna, Austria
• Özgü Can, Ege University, Turkey
• Caterina Caracciolo, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Italy
• Christian Cechinel, Federal University of Pampa, Brazil
• Artem Chebotko, University of Texas - Pan American, USA
• Philip Cimiano, Bielefeld University, Germany
• Sissi Closs, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Universidad Carlos III, Spain
• Sally Jo Cunningham, Waikato University, New Zealand
• Constantina Costopoulou, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
• Ernesto William De Luca, Georg Eckert-Institute – Leibniz-Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany
• Milena Dobreva, University of Malta, Malta
• Juan Manuel Dodero, University of Cádiz, Spain
• Erdogan Dogdu, TOBB Teknoloji ve Ekonomi University, Turkey
• Juan José Escribano Otero, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain
• Muriel Foulonneau, Tudor Public Research Centre, Luxemburg
• Panorea Gaitanou, Ionian University, Greece
• Emmanouel Garoufallou, Alexander Technological Educational Institute (ATEI) of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Manolis Gergatsoulis, Ionian University, Greece
• Jorge Gracia Del Río, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Jane Greenberg, Drexel University, USA
• Jill Griffiths, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• R. J. Hartley, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• Nikos Houssos, IRI, Greece
• Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Frances Johnson, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• Dimitris Kanellopoulos, University of Patras, Greece
• Pinar Karagöz, Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey
• Pythagoras Karampiperis, AgroKnow, Greece
• Brian Kelly, CETIS, University of Bolton, UK
• Christian Kop, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
• Rebecca Koskela, University of New Mexico, USA
• Daniela Luzi, National Research Council, Italy
• Paolo Manghi, Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), National Research Council (CNR), Italy
• John McCrae, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
• Xavier Ochoa, Centro de Tecnologías de Información Guayaquil, Ecuador
• Mehmet C. Okur, Yaşar University, Turkey
• Matteo Palmonari, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• Manuel Palomo Duarte, University of Cádiz, Spain
• Laura Papaleo, University of Genova, Italy
• Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University, Greece
• Marios Poulos, Ionian University, Greece
• T. V. Prabhakar, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
• Maria Cláudia Reis Cavalcanti, Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil
• Athena Salaba, Kent State University, USA
• Salvador Sánchez-Alonso, University of Alcalá, Spain
• Fabio Sartori, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• Cleo Sgouropoulou, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece
• Rania Siatri, Alexander Technological Educational Institute (ATEI) of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Miguel-Ángel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain
• Armando Stellato, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
• Imma Subirats, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Italy
• Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan
• Stefaan Ternier, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands
• Giannis Tsakonas, University of Patras, Greece
• Andrea Turbati, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
• Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
• Thomas Zschocke, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Kenya

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