Call for Papers, apologies for cross-posting
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SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS & APPLICATIONS
Part of the 17th International Conference on
Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR 2023),
October 23rd - 27th 2023
University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Paper Submission Deadline: 13th August, 2023
http://www.mtsr-conf.org/track/cultural-collections
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MTSR2023 Conference will accommodate a dedicated session for OnLine presentation
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Proceedings will be published in Springer CCIS series. CCIS is abstracted/indexed in
Scopus, SCImago,
EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, DBLP, Google Scholar. CCIS volumes are also submitted
for the
inclusion in ISI Proceedings.
** 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.
Submissions should be original and not previously submitted, published and under review to
other
Conferences or Journals.The submitted papers will undergo the same peer review as the
submissions
for MTSR 2023 and accepted contributions will be published in the MTSR 2023 proceedings
(Springer CCIS
series). Authors of accepted papers will be asked to register to the Conference and
present their work.
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), and Data Technologies and Applications (previously published as Program,
Emerald).
More information on submission can be found at the MTSR 2023 call for papers web page.
IMPORTANT DATES
August 13th, 2023: Submission deadline!
September 10th, 2023: Notification of decision (Acceptance/Rejection)
September 24th, 2023: Camera-ready papers due
October 23rd - 27th 2023 MTSR Conference at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan,
Italy
(The MTSR2023 Conference will accommodate a dedicated session for online
presentation)
SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS
* Michalis Sfakakis, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian University,
Corfu, Greece (sfakakis(a)ionio.gr)
* Lina Bountouri, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian University, Corfu,
Greece (linabountouri(a)gmail.com)