2nd C4P - SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS & APPLICATIONS - MTSR 2021

[Sofia Zapounidou]

2nd Call for Papers, apologies for cross-posting


DEADLINE EXTENSION!!!


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SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS & APPLICATIONS
              Part of the 15th International Conference on 
               Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2021)
                        VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

                 Paper Submission Deadline: 25th July, 2021

             Virtual Conference on 29th November - 3rd December 2021
                       http://www.ionio.gr/labs/dbis/mtsr2021/
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The 15th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2021), as well as the 
SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS & APPLICATIONS, due to the 
COVID-19 pandemic will take place virtually on 29th November - 3rd December 2021.


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NEW Submission deadline: AUGUST 31st, 2020
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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 2021 and accepted contributions will be published in the MTSR 2021 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 2021 call for papers web page.


IMPORTANT DATES
August 31st, 2021: NEW Submission deadline!
October 3rd, 2021: Notification of decision (Acceptance/Rejection) 
October 17th, 2021: Camera-ready papers due
November 29th - December 3rd 2021: the Virtual MTSR 2021 Conference will take place


SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS
* Michalis Sfakakis, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece (sfak...@ionio.gr)
* Lina Bountouri, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece and 
                  EU Publications Office - European Commission, Luxembourg (boud...@ionio.gr, linabo...@gmail.com)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Trond Aalberg, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
- Enrico Fransesconi, EU Publications Office, Luxembourg, and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Firenze, Italy
- Manolis Gergatsoulis, Ionian University, Greece
- Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Sarantos Kapidakis, University of West Attica, Greece
- Christos Papatheodorou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Digital Curation Unit, IMIS, Athena RC, Greece
- Chrisa Tsinaraki, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Italy
- Andreas Vlachidis, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, UK
- Maja Žumer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia