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Special Track on Metadata & Semantics for Cultural Collections &
Applications
Part of the 8th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic
Research (MTSR 2014),
27 - 29 November 2014, Karlsruhe, Germany
http://www.ionio.gr/labs/dbis/mtsr2014/
Submission deadline: !New Deadline! July 31st, 2014
Proceedings will be published in Springer CCIS series
AIM AND SCOPE
Cultural Heritage collections are essential knowledge infrastructures
that provide a solid representation of the historical background of
human communities. These knowledge infrastructures are constructed from
and integrate cultural information derived from diverse memory
institutions, mainly museums, archives and libraries. Each individual
community has spent a lot of effort in order to develop, support and
promote its own metadata as tools for the description and dissemination
of cultural information, mainly related to its particular resources and
use.
The exposure of cultural information into the Semantic Web makes clear
that metadata have to be accurate and deeply interpretable in the
semantic level. Conceptual Reference Models could facilitate these
procedures since they constitute conceptualizations - according to the
specific point of view of a memory institution or its particular
community - providing at the same time the context for interpreting the
respecting metadata to their domain of discourse. CRMs have also been
viewed as global schemata in order to map different metadata
specifications. At the same time, there are also inter-domain efforts
targeted to semantically align data (research data, educational data,
public sector information etc.) to cultural information. The management
of the cultural information provides challenges associated with (i)
metadata modeling, specification, standardization, extraction,
evaluation, mapping, integration and effective use, (ii) knowledge
representation as conceptualization to provide the context for
unambiguously interpreting metadata, and (iii) information integration
from different contexts for the provision of integrated access and
advanced services to the users.
The aim of this Special Track is to maintain a dialogue where
researchers and practitioners working on all the aspects of the cultural
information will come together and exchange ideas about open issues in
all stages of the metadata life cycle. The track also welcomes works for
the connection and interlinking of the Cultural Heritage metadata to any
other dataset published in the Semantic Web universe.
TOPICS
The papers in this special track should be original and of high quality,
addressing issues in areas such as:
- Cultural heritage metadata models, standards, interoperability,
mappings and integration
- Automated metadata extraction
- Ontologies and knowledge representation for the cultural heritage
domain
- Extracting semantics, entities, and patterns from Cultural Heritage
collections
- Collection models and item - collection relationships representation
- Collection - level metadata modeling and management
- Linked open data approaches for the cultural heritage domain
- Composite content-discovery and management of components and
interrelationships
- Large volume content management - high resolution image data sets
- 3D models-indexing, storage and retrieval approaches
- Federation of repositories/data infrastructures
- Integration of intra or inter disciplinary heterogeneous resources
- Infrastructures for sharing content
- Digital Curation workflows and models
- Preservation metadata for cultural heritage digital objects
- Metadata quality metrics
- Case studies
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6
pages). Submitted papers have to follow the LNCS proceedings formatting
style and guidelines
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0/).
The submitted papers will undergo the same peer review as the
submissions for MTSR 2014 and accepted contributions will be published
in the MTSR 2014 proceedings (Springer CCIS series,
http://www.springer.com/series/7899). Authors of accepted papers will be
asked to register to the Conference and present their work.
Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended and
revised versions of their papers for possible publication in selected
international journals, including the International Journal of Metadata,
Semantics and Ontologies (Inderscience), and Program: Electronic library
and information systems (Emerald) (list incomplete).
More information on submission can be found at the MTSR 2014 call for
papers web page: http://www.mtsr-conf.org/.
IMPORTANT DATES
!New Deadline! July 31st, 2014: paper submission
!New Deadline! August 25th, 2014: acceptance/rejection notification
August 31th, 2014: camera-ready papers due
November 27th - 29th, 2014: MTSR 2014
SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS
Michalis Sfakakis, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian
University, Corfu, Greece (sfaka...@ionio.gr)
Lina Bountouri, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian
University, Corfu, Greece, and General State Archives, Greece
(boudo...@ionio.gr)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Trond Aalberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),
Norway
- Anila Angjeli, Bibliotheque National de France, France
- Karin Bredenberg, The National Archives of Sweden, Sweden
- Costis Dallas, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada
- Manolis Gergatsoulis, Ionian University, Greece
- Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Sarantos Kapidakis, Ionian University, Greece
- Irene Lourdi, Libraries Computer Centre, National & Kapodistrian
University of Athens, Greece
- Maria Emilia Masci, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy
- Carlo Meghini, National Research Council of Italy (ISTI-CNR), Italy
- Christian-Emile Ore, University of Oslo, Norway
- Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University and Digital Curation Unit,
IMIS, Athena RC, Greece
- Daniel Pitti, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities,
University of Virginia, USA
- Stephen Stead, Paveprime Ltd., UK
- Chrisa Tsinaraki, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Italy
- Andreas Vlachidis, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science,
University of South Wales, UK
- Katherine Wisser, Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
Simmons College, USA
- Maja Žumer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia