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CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper Submission Deadline: 15th May 2016
10th International Conference on
Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR’16)
November 22-25, 2016,
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Rome,
Italy
http://www.mtsr-conf.org/
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The International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research(MTSR'16) will
be held at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in
Rome (Italy) on November 22-25, 2016.
MTSR’16 celebrates the conference’s 10th anniversary with the
theme of bridging the past, present and future of metadata, data and semantic
technologies. The organisers encourage prospective authors and conference
participants to reflect on the following questions:
* How the documented evidence produced over the past years
can be used as a driver for innovating management and processing of data and
information?
* How close are we from the vision of building powerful learning systems that
will meet the needs of modern societies through high quality data
infrastructures
and data-driven interfaces?
* What are the main challenges that modern metadata and semantics research has
not addressed yet?
MTSR'16 brings together scholars and practitioners with
common interest in the interdisciplinary fields of metadata, data and
semantics. 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 Cultural Informatics, Open Access Repositories and Digital Libraries,
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.
Important Dates
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* 15th May 2016 : Submission deadline
* 30th June 2016 : Notification of acceptance
* 10th July 2016 : Camera-ready papers due
* 22nd – 25th November 2016 : Conference at FAO of the UN (Rome, Italy)
Topics
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Contributions are encouraged on this year’s theme “Learning
from the Past, Building the Future”, including contributions covering, but not
limited to, metadata in general, ontologies, Semantic Web, linked data, data
repositories, digital libraries, knowledge management, software engineering,
and the following list:
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
Tutorials and Workshops
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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.confere...@gmail.com
Special Tracks
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The conference welcomes the organization of special tracks focusing on
particular domains or topics. Proposals for special tracks are welcome. 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:
* Cultural Collections & Applications
* Agriculture, Food & Environment
* Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval, Linked & Social Data
* European and National Projects
* Open Repositories, Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures
Submission procedure
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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=10mtsr2016.
Conference Proceedings
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Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and
Information Science (CCIS) book series (http://www.springer.com/series/7899).
CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical
Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in
ISI Proceedings.
Other Publication Opportunities
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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)
(http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ind/ijmso),
Program (Emerald) (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/prog)
and the International Information & Library Review (Taylor & Francis)
(http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ulbr20/current#.VFY9LfmUeSo).
Awards
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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 theInternational Journal of Metadata, Semantics and
Ontologies (Inderscience) (http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijmso)
or Program (Emerald) (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/prog);
* Each award comes with the price 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.
We look forward to see you in Rome, Italy
Organizers
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General Chair
* Emmanouel Garoufallou, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of
Thessaloniki, Greece
Program Co-Chairs
* Jane Greenberg, Drexel University
* Armando Stellato, University of Rome Tor Vergata
* Imma Subirats, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
Program Committee (preliminary)
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The program committee is composed of the following members. More will added in
the following days.
Rajendra Akerkar Senior Researcher/Professor, Western
Norway Research Institute
Arif Altun hacettepe unv
Ioannis N. Athanasiadis Wageningen University
Gerhard Budin University of Vienna
Cristian Cechinel UFPel - Federal University of Pelotas
Sissi Closs Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
Ernesto William De Luca Georg-Eckert-Institute – Leibniz-Institute
for international Textbook Research
Erdogan Dogdu TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Panorea Gaitanou Ionian University, DBIS
Manolis Gergatsoulis Associate Professor, Department of Archive and
Library Sciences
Carlos A. Iglesias Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Dimitris Kanellopoulos University of Patras
Pinar Karagoz Middle East Technical University (METU)
Christian Kop Alpen-Adria-Universitt Klagenfurt
Paolo Manghi ISTI-CNR
John P. Mccrae National University of Ireland, Galway
Matteo Palmonari University of Milano-Bicocca
Christos Papatheodorou Department of Archives and Library Science, Ionian
University, Corfu, Greece
Marios Poulos Ionian University
Salvador Sanchez-Alonso University of Alcalá
Fabio Sartori Department of Computer Science Systems and Communication,
University of Milan-Bicocca
Shigeo Sugimoto University of Tsukuba
Andrea Turbati University of Rome Tor Vergata
Thomas Zschocke World Agroforestry Centre
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Ing. Armando Stellato, PhD
AI Research Group,
Dept. of
Enterprise Engineering
University
of Roma, Tor Vergata
Via del Politecnico 1 00133 ROMA (ITALY)
tel: +39 06
7259 7330 (office, room A1-14);
+39 06 7259 7332 (lab)
fax: +39 06 7259 7460
email/skype: stell...@uniroma2.it
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