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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: AgroSEM2013
Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment
7th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'13)
Thessaloniki, Greece, November 19-22, 2013
http://mtsr2013.teithe.gr
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*** Paper submission deadline: 20 June 2013***
AIM & TOPICS
The 6th Edition of the Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for
Agriculture,
Food & Environment is hosted as part of MTSR 2013, and aims to bring
together
researchers and practitioners that are working on agricultural, food-related
and
environmental knowledge production, organization, and exchange from a
Semantic Web
perspective.
It aims to serve as a discussion forum where interested experts will
present the results of their work, and establish liaisons with other groups
that
are working on related subjects. In addition, it aims to outline the rich
potential
of these subjects as an application field for advanced metadata- and
semantic-driven
systems and services.
Topics include but are not limited to contributions dealing with the
following
issues in the context of agriculture, food & environment:
* Information standards and specifications
* Metadata schemas and application profiles
* Multilingual vocabularies, taxonomies, glossaries and thesauri
* Metadata generation, harvesting, and exchange
* Knowledge acquisition, elicitation and extraction
* Infrastructures, systems and services for knowledge organization
* Knowledge repositories and archives
* Ontology approaches, models, theories, and languages
* Ontology development, integration, lifecycle, and evaluation
* Management of large ontology-driven knowledge bases
SPECIAL SESSION CHAIRS
* Nikos Manouselis. Agro-Know Technologies (Greece)
* Ioannis Athanasiadis. Democritus University of Thrace (Greece)
* Juan Pane. Universidad Nacional de Asunción (Paraguay)
IMPORTANT DATES
20 June 2013: Paper submission (Springer LNCS style, PDF file submission)
31 July 2013: Acceptance notification
20 August 2013: Camera-ready, revised version of accepted papers
19-22 November 2013: MTSR'13 in Thessaloniki, Greece
SUBMISSIONS
Interested authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers
(6 pages)
about complete or ongoing research. Papers should be original and not
previously submitted
to other venues.
PUBLICATION
Springer will publish MTSR'13 accepted papers in the form a book in the CCIS
Series.
In addition, authors of papers in the Special Track will be invited to
submit an
extended version of their manuscripts to a Special Issue of Elsevier's
forthcoming
open access journal "Information Processing in Agriculture".
The proceedings of the previous Special Track on Agricultural Metadata &
Semantics for
Agriculture, Food & Environment at MTSR'12 have been published in Vol.343 of
the CCIS Series
(http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-35233-1/page/1)
and MTSR'11 have been published in Vol.240 of the CCIS Series
(http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-24731-6). A Special Issue of
the International
Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies has also resulted from this
Track in the past:
http://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticletoc.php?jcode=ijmso&year=2009&vol=
4&issue=1/2
ABOUT MTSR’13
The 7th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'13)
will be hosted by the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of
Thessaloniki,
Greece from 19th to 22th of November 2013. It will take place at the Museum
of
Byzantine Culture,The Museum is located in the centre of Thessaloniki, in
one of the
most beautiful modern public buildings in Greece. The museum aims to present
a w
ide-ranging view of life in Byzantine and the post-Byzantine period
including but
not limited to art, ideology, social structure and religion. In addition is
explains
how historical changes and the political situation affected people's
everyday life.
MTSR'13 targets researchers and practitioners from the fields of metadata
and semantics
research as, well as applications of the Semantic Web and related
technologies.
See http://mtsr2013.teithe.gr for more details on travelling and
accomodation.
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