CFP: Special Issue on Metadata and Annotation for Semantic Web

                        CALL FOR PAPERS

    International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies

                        Special Issue on
           "Metadata and Annotation for Semantic Web"

    https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=152

There has been a rapid growth in machine-understandable metadata and
annotation research in the past few years. Many novel frameworks,
vocabularies, tools, and applications have been proposed, developed
and studied. The goal of this special issues is to keep a record of
the state-of-the-art research in this fast moving area.


* Subject Coverage

The special issue will cover a range of issues and topics,
including but not limited to:

  - Tools/frameworks of novel metadata applications
  - Semantic annotation for mutimedia contents
  - Metadata-based natural language processing
  - Automatic extraction/learning of metadata from Web pages
  - Evaluation of metadata standards
  - Development and maintenace of metadata or annotation vocabularies
  - Practical experiences and applications of annotations
  - Semantic desktop for simultaneous creation of documents and metadata
  - Innovative FOAF (friend of a friend) projects
  - Creation of collaborative, shared annotation and metadata
  - Organizational and social aspects of shared annotations

* Important Dates

  Paper submission deadline: 30 April 2005
  Notification of acceptance: 30 July 2005
  Revised paper deadline: 1st September 2005
  Final decision: 30 September 2005
  Final manuscript: 30 October 2005


* Guest Editors

  Siegfried Handschuh (University of Karlsruhe)
  Thierry Declerck (Saarland University & DFKI GmbH)
  Masahiro Hori (Kansai University)


* Notes for Intending Authors

All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for
authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting
papers are available on the Papers Submission section under Author
Guidelines [https://www.inderscience.com/papers/about.php]

To submit a paper, please go to Submission of Papers
[https://www.inderscience.com/papers/].

This is our preferred route for submitting papers; please use it
if at all possible. However, if you experience any problems submitting
papers in this way, an alternative route is suggested below.

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be
currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.


* Editors and Notes

As an alternative to using the Submission of Papers site
[https://www.inderscience.com/papers/], you may send THREE copies
of each manuscript (in hard copy) or one copy in the form of an
MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details of both formats in
Author Guidelines [https://www.inderscience.com/papers/about.php])
to the following:

  Prof. Masahiro Hori
  Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University
  2-1-1 Ryozenji-cho, Takatsuki-shi
  OSAKA 569-1095
  Japan
  Tel: +81 (0)72-690-2415
  E-mail: horim@res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp

with a copy to:

  Editor-in-Chief
  IEL Editorial Office
  PO Box 735
  Olney, Bucks MK46 5WB
  UK
  Fax: +44 1234-240515
  E-mail: ijmso@inderscience.com

Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue,
the title of the Journal and the names of the Guest Editors.
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-- 
Masahiro Hori, Prof., Ph.D.
Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University
Tel: +81-(0)72-690-2415 / Fax: +81-(0)72-690-2491
E-mail: horim@res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp
Home Page: http://www.res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp/~horim/

Received on Monday, 24 January 2005 14:52:56 UTC