[InetBib] [MTSR'16] Deadline Extension and Communication about Change of Location (Rome to Göttingen)

[Birgit Schmidt <bschmidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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                      EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS

         Paper Submission Deadline Extended to: 26th June 2016

                  10th International Conference on

               Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR’16)

                       November 22-25, 2016,

                      SUB Göttingen, Germany

http://www.mtsr-conf.org/

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*Due to new rules and regulations in FAO of the UN for hosting 
conferences MTSR, the 10th International Conference on Metadata and 
Semantics Research (MTSR'16) will be relocated from Rome to Göttingen, 
where this anniversary edition will now proudly be hosted by the State 
and University Library Göttingen, Germany (SUB).*

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*The dates of the event are the same, November 22-25, 2016. *

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*We apologize for any inconvenience generated by the relocation. 
Furthermore, taking into account potential new interested submitters, 
MTSR2016 extends the call for papers to 24th of June.*

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MTSR’16 celebrates the conference’s 10th anniversary with the theme of 
bridging the past, present and future of metadata, data and semantic 
technologies. The organisers encourage prospective authors and 
conference participants to reflect on the following questions:

* How the documented evidence produced over the past years can be used 
as a driver for innovating management and processing of data and 
information?

* How close are we from the vision of building powerful learning systems 
that will meet the needs of modern societies through high quality data 
infrastructures and data-driven interfaces?

* What are the main challenges that modern metadata and semantics 
research has not addressed yet?

MTSR'16 brings together scholars and practitioners with common interest 
in the interdisciplinary fields of metadata, data and semantics. The 
conference provides an opportunity for participants to share knowledge 
and novel approaches in the implementation of semantic technologies 
across diverse types of information environments and applications. These 
include Cultural Informatics, Open Access Repositories and Digital 
Libraries, E-learning applications, Search Engine Optimization and 
Information Retrieval, Research Information Systems and Infrastructures, 
e-Science and e-Social Science applications, Agriculture, Food and 
Environment, Bio-Health & Medical Information Systems.

Important Dates

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* 26th June 2016 : Extended Submission deadline

* 20th July 2016 : Notification of acceptance

* xxx August 2016 : Camera-ready papers due

* 22nd – 25th November 2016 : Conference Event

Topics

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Contributions are encouraged on this year’s theme “Learning from the 
Past, Building the Future”, including contributions covering, but not 
limited to, metadata in general, ontologies, Semantic Web, linked data, 
data repositories, digital libraries, knowledge management, software 
engineering, and the following list:

I. Foundations

* Typology of metadata and metadata implementations

* The value and cost of metadata

* Quality evaluation in the use of Metadata

* Metadata reusability

* New or revised metadata schemas or application profiles

* Metadata standardization

* Empirical studies on metadata and/or ontologies usage

II. Languages and Frameworks for Metadata Management

* SGML, XML, UML in theory and practice

* Languages and Frameworks for Ontology Management

* Metadata and the Semantic Web

* Metadata and Knowledge Management

* Metadata and Software Engineering

* Metadata application of Semantic Web technologies

* Ontologies and Ontology-based Knowledge Management Systems

III. Case Studies

* Metadata and ontologies for librarianship, management of historical 
archives and archeological research

* Metadata and ontologies for the design of innovative products and 
processes

* Metadata and ontologies for health, biological and clinical 
information management

* Metadata and ontologies in finance, tourism and public administrations

* Metadata and ontologies in industry

* Metadata and ontologies in education

* Metadata and ontologies in agriculture, food and environment

IV. Technological Issues

Technologies for:

* Metadata and ontology storage, Metadata and ontology integration, 
Metadata extraction and navigation, querying and editing of ontologies

* Learning Objects management

* Search engines, Localization & Visualization

* Mobile challenges

V. Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval, Big, Linked & Social Data

* Ontologies and SKOS

* Linked Data and its applications

* Information visualization

* Metadata quality

* Digital curation

* Impact and evaluation of DL

* Use and re-use of digital data

* Data mining

* Social Data

* Social Networking & Collaboration platforms

* Multilingual IR

* User behavior and modeling

* Big Data semantics, search and mining

* Big Data best practices

* Reasoning on Big Data

Tutorials and Workshops

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You can bring in your ideas for tutorials. If you are interested in a 
particular topic, please let us know by sending an email to: 
mtsr.conference@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:mtsr.conference@xxxxxxxxx>

Special Tracks

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The conference welcomes the organization of special tracks focusing on 
particular domains or topics. Proposals for special tracks are welcome. 
Papers submitted to tracks undergo the same review procedures and are 
published in the same proceedings as those accepted for the main track. 
Tracks currently being organized:

* Cultural Collections & Applications

* Agriculture, Food & Environment

* Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval, Linked & Social Data

* European and National Projects

* Open Repositories, Research Information Systems and Data Infrastructures

Submission procedure

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The following types of submissions are invited:

* Full papers (12 pages) reporting complete research

* Short papers (6 pages) presenting ongoing or preliminary research

* Posters (4 pages)

* Proposals for tutorials and workshops (2 pages)

Submissions should be original and not previously submitted to other 
Conferences or Journals. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis 
of relevance, originality, importance and clarity following a 
double-blind peer review process. Submitted papers have to follow the 
LNCS proceedings formatting style and guidelines 
(ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/instruct/authors/authors.pdf). 
Authors of accepted submissions will be asked to register to the 
Conference and present their work in the form of either oral 
presentation or poster presentation.

Interested authors can submit to EasyChair 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=10mtsr2016.

Conference Proceedings

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Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Communications in 
Computer and Information Science (CCIS) book series 
(http://www.springer.com/series/7899). CCIS is abstracted/indexed in 
DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, 
Scopus. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI 
Proceedings.

Other Publication Opportunities

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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) (http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ind/ijmso), 
Program (Emerald) (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/prog) and the 
International Information & Library Review (Taylor & Francis) 
(http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ulbr20/current#.VFY9LfmUeSo).

Awards

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There are two types of awards: the Best paper award and the Best student 
paper award, both sponsored by euroCRIS (http://www.eurocris.org/).

* Best paper award: This award will be presented to the authors of the 
best full research paper submitted and presented to the conference.

* Best student paper award: MTSR sponsors a paper competition to 
recognize excellence in a conference paper contribution whose primary 
author is a student (normally at a PhD or MRes level). The student is 
required to present the paper at the MTSR 2016 conference. Submissions 
are evaluated on their originality, scientific merits, structure, and 
clarity of composition.

The author of an awarded paper, and co-authors if any, will be entitled to:

* Receive a signed and stamped official award certificate by the 
conference organizers

* Promote their achievement on MTSR conference webpage, and MTSR Social 
Media

* Get invited to submit an extended and revised version of the awarded 
paper for publication in theInternational Journal of Metadata, Semantics 
and Ontologies (Inderscience) 
(http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijmso) or Program (Emerald) 
(http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/prog);

* Each award comes with the price of a free access/registration to next 
years’ MTSR, including all conference materials, together with the 
printed/digital conference proceedings.

* This voucher for each award for free registration is valid only for 
one author, in case of many co-authors, of the awarded paper, and only 
for the MTSR conference that follows the year after receiving the award.

We look forward to see you in Göttingen

Organizers

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General Chair

* Emmanouel Garoufallou, Alexander Technological Educational Institute 
of Thessaloniki, Greece

Program Co-Chairs

* Jane Greenberg, Drexel University

* Armando Stellato, University of Rome Tor Vergata

* Imma Subirats, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United 
Nations



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