Call for Papers
Special track on Metadata & Semantics for Cultural Collections &
Applications
http://www.ionio.gr/labs/dbis/mtsr2012/
Part of the 6th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research
(MTSR 2012),
28-30 November 2012 - Cadiz, Spain (http://mtsr2012.uca.es/).
Submission deadline: July 20th, 2012
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, the development of their linguistic idioms and artistic
expression, while they constitute important instruments for the social and
ethnic cohesion.
The aim of this Special Track is to document the state-of-the-art in
technologies and issues around cultural collections and back-end
infrastructures. The objective is to generate a forum in which researchers
and scientists that are working on relevant issues and applications to come
together, meet and exchange ideas about the main open issues, so that more
effective progress can be made in this area.
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
- Collection models and item - collection relationships representation
- Collection - level metadata modeling and management
- Ontologies and knowledge representation for the cultural heritage domain
- Linked open data approaches for the cultural heritage domain
- Composite content-discovery and management of components and
interrelationships
- Automated generation of metadata, especially for non-textual resources
- Large volume content management - high resolution image data sets
- 3D models-indexing, storage and retrieval approaches
- Federation of repositories/data infrastructures
- Integration of heterogeneous resources
- Infrastructures for sharing content
- Policy enforcement
- 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) in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
More information on submission can be found at the MTSR 2012 call for papers
web page (http://mtsr2012.uca.es/papers.php)
The submitted papers will undergo the same peer review as the submissions
for MTSR2012 and accepted contributions will be published in the MTSR
proceedings (Springer CCIS series).
IMPORTANT DATES
July 20th, 2012: paper submission
September 1st, 2012: acceptance/rejection notification September 15th, 2012:
camera-ready papers due November 28 - 30th, 2012: MTSR 2012
SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS
Manolis Gergatsoulis, Dept. Archives and Library Science, Ionian University,
Corfu, Greece ([email protected]) Carlo Meghini, Institute of Information
Science and Technology "Alessandro Faedo", National Research Council of
Italy (ISTI-CNR), Pisa, Italy ([email protected]) Christos
Papatheodorou, Dept. Archives and Library Science, Ionian University, Corfu,
Greece and Digital Curation Unit, Institute for the Management of
Information Systems, "Athena" Research Centre, Athens, Greece
([email protected])
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Costis Dallas, Panteion University and Digital Curation Unit, IMIS, Athena
RC, Greece Makx Dekkers, Independent consultant, Spain Giuliana De
Francesco, Cultural Heritage and Technical Assistance Division, Council of
Europe Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt University, Germany Antoine Isaac, Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Maria Emilia Masci, Scuola Normale
Superiore di Pisa, Italy Christian-Emile Ore, University of Oslo, Norway
Michalis Sfakakis, National Documentation Centre, Greece Stephen Stead,
Paveprime Ltd., UK Chrisa Tsinaraki, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Douglas Tudhope, University of Glamorgan, UK
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