[OpenGLAM] CfP MTSR2018-SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS & APPLICATIONS

[Sofia Zapounidou]

 1st Call for Papers, apologies for cross-posting
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SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS &
APPLICATIONS

Part of the 12th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics
Research (MTSR 2018),
October 23 –  2018, Limassol, Cyprus.

Submission deadline: June 15th, 2018
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 libraries,
archives and museums. Each individual community has spent a lot of effort
in order to develop, support and promote its own  systems, tools and
metadata for the management of cultural information, mainly related to its
particular resources and use.

In this framework, the management of the cultural information has to deal
with challenges related
to (i) metadata modeling, specification, standardization, extraction,
(semantic) enrichment,
mapping, integration, effective use, and evaluation, (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,
reuse and advanced services to 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. A critical
factor to the effectiveness of many aspects of all the above efforts is the
quality of metadata, as interpreted by its context and use and evaluated by
the proper measures and methods. Many institutions and aggregate
infrastructures are dealing with the poor quality of metadata that
inevitably results in poor integration, search and reuse, while their
enrichment, in terms of  contextualization, co-referencing, alignment, etc,
is really challenging.

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, standards, ontologies, knowledge
organization and representation systems
* Cultural Heritage information integration, interoperability and mappings
* Automated extraction of metadata, entities, and patterns from Cultural
Heritage resources
* Metadata manual or automated (Semantic) enrichment and search
* Metadata quality metrics, tools and services
* Linked Open Data approaches in the Cultural Heritage domain
* Publication, linking and citation of Cultural Heritage information and
resources
* Large volume content management
* 3D models-indexing, storage and retrieval approaches
* Infrastructures for sharing content
* Digital Curation workflows and models
* Provenance and preservation metadata for Cultural Heritage digital
resources

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 2018 and accepted contributions will be published in the MTSR 2018
proceedings (Springer CCIS series). 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 (Emerald).
More information on submission can be found at the MTSR 2018 call for
papers web page (http://www.mtsr-conf.org/index.php/call-for-papers).


IMPORTANT DATES
June 15th, 2018: Submission deadline
July 27th, 2018: Notification of Acceptance/rejection
August 24th, 2018: Camera-ready papers due
October 23rd – October 26th, 2018: Conference at Cyprus University of
Technology, Limassol, Cyprus


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 NATO HQ, Brussels, Belgium (boudouri at ionio.gr,
linabountouri at gmail.com)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TBA)
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