[Metadatalibrarians] Final Call for Papers - SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS & APPLICATIONS (MTSR 2017)

[Lina Bountouri]

Final Call for Papers, apologies for cross-posting
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SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS &
APPLICATIONS <http://www.ionio.gr/labs/dbis/mtsr2017/>

Part of the 11th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics
Research (MTSR 2017 <http://www.mtsr-conf.org/index.php/call-for-papers>),
November 28th – December 1st 2017, Tallinn, Estonia

New Submission deadline: July 10th, 2017
Proceedings will be published in Springer CCIS series
<http://www.springer.com/series/7899>

*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 libraries, archives and museums. 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 management of the cultural information has to deal with challenges
related to (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.

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. New challenges are
also emerged from the need to incorporate cultural information into the new
publication paradigms,
where a variety of resources (data, metadata, processes, results, etc) are
linked and integrated,
providing better shareability and reusability. Currently, Linked (Open)
Data, as part of the Semantic
Web Technology, is having a major role in modernizing cultural heritage
collections. Providing to
users the possibility to re-use and integrate data into their own systems
is currently more than a
need, given that transparency and access to information is a prerequisite.
It is also important to
note that in the Semantic Web environment there are many opportunities but
many challenges as well,
while its' complete and accurate establishment in Cultural Heritage
institutions needs still a long
way to go.

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 at all stages of the cultural heritage information life cycle. The
track also welcomes works
related to semantics and applications for new approaches to cultural
information publication and
sharing, as well as to interlinking to other datasets 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 and standards
•    Ontologies and knowledge representation for the Cultural Heritage
domain
•    Automated metadata extraction
•    Cultural Heritage integration
•    Extraction of semantics, entities, and patterns from Cultural Heritage
collections
•    Collection and item level models and metadata
•    Linked open data approaches for the Cultural Heritage domain
•    Composite content-discovery and management of components and
interrelationships
•    Publication, linking and citation of Cultural Heritage information and
resources
•    Large volume content management
•    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
•    Provenance and 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.
The submitted papers will undergo the same peer review as the submissions
for MTSR 2017 and accepted
contributions will be published in the MTSR 2017 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
<http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijmso> (Inderscience), and
Program <http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/prog> (Emerald).
More information on submission can be found at the MTSR 2017 call for
papers web page <http://www.mtsr-conf.org/index.php/call-for-papers>.


*IMPORTANT DATES*
July 10th, 2017: Submission deadline
July 31st, 2017: Notification of Acceptance/rejection
August 20th, 2017: Camera-ready papers due
November 28th – December 1st, 2017: Conference at University in Tallinn,
Estonia


*SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS*
•    Michalis Sfakakis, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology,
Ionian University, Corfu,
    Greece (sfakakis at ionio.gr)
•    Lina Bountouri, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian
University, Corfu, Greece
    and EU Publications Office, Luxembourg (boudouri at ionio.gr)