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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@ionio.gr)
* Lina Bountouri, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece and 
                  EU Publications Office - European Commission, Luxembourg (boudouri@ionio.gr, linabountouri@gmail.com)