####  Apologies for cross postings ####

Context Aware Semantic Metadata Management: Interdisciplinary ApplicationsURL:
http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/authoreditorresources/callfo...

*Editors: *
Dr. Rajkumar Kannan (Bishop Heber College(Autonomous), India),
Dr. Frederic Andres (National Institute of Informatics, Japan), and
Dr. George (Ghinea, Brunel University, UK)

*Call for Chapters: *
Proposals Submission Deadline: June 10, 2010
Full Chapters Due: September 10, 2010
NOTE: deadline will be extended

 *Introduction*
Today’s information integrations systems face real challenges of managing
diverse data formats, disparate sources of content and need to derive
knowledge from the content on multiple contexts. Current software tools
that look at metadata are not sufficient to handle these problems. What is
needed is semantic metadata from disparate sources that reveal context as
well as non-obvious insights. A new concept which is known as context aware
semantic metadata is paving the way to finally realize the full value of
enterprise and scientific information. Once documents are properly
annotated, it is possible for applications to automatically understand the
context and meaning of the content thereby correct decisions can be made.

Syntactic metadata focuses on elements such as size of the document,
location of a document or date of document creation which do not provide a
level of understanding about what the document conveys or implies. In
contrast, semantic metadata describes contextually relevant or
domain-specific information about content, based on an enterprise-specific
custom metadata model or ontology. Context aware semantic metadata
represents any semantic metadata that can be used to characterize the
situation of an entity, such as person, place, or object that is considered
relevant to the interaction between user, application, services and/or
network components.

Context aware semantic metadata management certainly includes traditional
data management issues such as modeling, specification, generation,
curation, storage and retrieval. Additional properties that are specific to
metadata and its context, however, have an impact on its management.
Therefore it will also include context and semantics based tasks in
annotation, retrieval and management in the context of business, society,
healthcare, geology, culture and so on. Information on demand ensures that
real-time information is readily available for superior service and
increased user satisfaction.

This edited book aims to address the current research and near future
trends in metadata management in the dimension of semantics and contexts
with the target of achieving the best information on demand
interdisciplinary applications and services.

*Objective*
The objective of the proposed book is to compile a reference reading which
encourages and facilitates the transfer of technologies and methodologies
that intersect the three areas - Metadata, Semantic Web and Context
Awareness. In order to do that, each book chapter would constitute an
illustrative technique or a specific kind of application or a generic
system that interplay with one or more of these three dimensions.

*Intended Audience*
This edited book will be an ideal reference book at university levels to
bachelors, masters, research students and faculties in several areas
spanning from computer science, business management, information science
and knowledge management. Also, it is a must read source for database
practitioners and managers who want to unlock the hidden contextual
knowledge from the voluminous unstructured data.

*Topic Areas*
This reference handbook will invite submissions describing ongoing
innovative work and applications on these interdisciplinary areas coving
metadata, semantics and context awareness. Specifically, book chapters
include, but not limited to:

*Concepts and Techniques:*
• Text, multimedia, real sense media and 3D media metadata standards for
contextual semantics
• Context Aware Semantic metadata generation, curation, and lifetime
management
• Digital libraries for context aware semantic metadata
• Context Aware Semantic metadata mapping and reconciliation
• Efficient storage and retrieval of context aware semantic metadata
• Context aware metadata interoperability
• Evolution and propagation of context aware semantic metadata
• Quality, pedigree and provenance of context aware semantic metadata
• Context aware semantic metadata identification
• Models and languages for context aware semantic metadata
• Metrics for context aware semantic metadata management systems
• User interaction models for context aware semantic metadata management
systems
• Learning and reasoning over these systems
• Services for context aware semantic metadata systems
• Return on Investment for context aware semantic metadata management
• Advanced reasoning on context aware semantic metadata management
• Role of context and semantics in adaptive enterprises
• Context aware multimedia and real sense media authoring, retrieval and
mining
• Personalized context and semantics aware cross-media retrieval
• Multimodal interfaces for context aware semantic metadata systems
*
*
*Applications:*
• Context aware semantic metadata in life science databases and
applications,
• E-Science and e-Health, e-Arts, e-Learning, e-culture,
• Performing arts,
• Context and semantics aware networks of sensors, devices and applications
• Heterogeneous mobile environments
• Business and scientific workflows,
• Semantic guided web service interoperability and composition,
• Web service and workflow discovery,
• Social and scientific networks,
• Semantic grid services,
• Semantic query processing,
• Semantic-enriched web portals and mashups

*Submission Guidelines*
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before *June 10,
2010*, a 2 to 3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the missions and
concerns of his proposed chapter, as a PDF or DOC file attachment to the
editors (rajku...@bhc.edu.in <%20rajku...@bhc.edu.in> or
and...@nii.ac.jp<%20and...@nii.ac.jp>
 or george.ghi...@brunel.ac.uk <%20george.ghi...@brunel.ac.uk>). The
proposal should contain the following information:

1. Name of the book chapter
2. Name of author(s), email address and affiliation
3. Technical area covered in the chapter
4. Main contributions which will be made by author(s)
5. Technical novelty of the contribution
6. Detailed table of contents of the chapter

Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by *July 10, 2010* about the
status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are
expected to be submitted by *September 10, 2010*. All submitted chapters
will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.

*Publisher*
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group
Inc.),  publisher of the “Information Science Reference” , (formerly Idea
Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business
Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints.  For
additional information regarding the publisher, please visit
www.igi-global.com. The publication of this edited book is anticipated to
be released in 2011.

*Important Dates:*
*Proposal Submission Deadline: *June 10, 2010
*Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: *July 10, 2010
*Full Chapter Submission: *September 10, 2010
*Review Results Returned:*  November 30, 2010
*Revised Chapter Submission:*January 15, 2011
*Final Deadline:*February 15, 2011

*Editorial Advisory Board*
TBA

*Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document):
*
*to:* rajku...@bhc.edu.in <%20rajku...@bhc.edu.in> or
and...@nii.ac.jp<%20and...@nii.ac.jp> or
george.ghi...@brunel.ac.uk <%20george.ghi...@brunel.ac.uk>

--
Rajkumar Kannan PhD
MIEEE, MACM, MBCS, LMCSI, LMISTE

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Bishop Heber College(Autonomous)
Tiruchirappalli 620017, India.

Phone +91 431 2770136. Mobile +91 9942002764. Fax +91 431 2770293.
Business URL :  www.bhc.edu.in
Personal URL  :  www.linkedin.com/in/rajkumarkannan19