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: 16th July, 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
July 16th, 2023: Submission deadline!
August 27th, 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 and
EU Publications Office - European Commission,
Luxembourg (boudouri(a)ionio.gr, linabountouri(a)gmail.com)