[Eurchap] CfP: Special Issue on Metadata for e-science and e-research International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies

[Tsakonas Giannis]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue on: Metadata for e-science and e-research
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO)
http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfp.php?id=1983

Guest Editors:
Emmanouel Garoufallou, Alexander Technological Educational Institution
of Thessaloniki, Greece, mgarou[at]libd.teithe.gr
Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University, Greece, 
papatheodor[at]ionio.gr

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AIMS AND SCOPE
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The parallel growth in scientific data and cloud computing has 
revolutionised the way scientific content is communicated to and used by 
researchers. e-science and e-research applications have extended 
traditional forms of scholarly cyber-infrastructure (such as 
institutional repositories and digital libraries), aiming to satisfy new 
requirements that reveal new usage scenarios and use cases. Thus 
research groups focusing on a knowledge domain or interdisciplinary 
research communities need to collaborate and communicate the workflows 
and processes they follow to generate knowledge and their results.

Indicative workflows include storing, manipulating, enriching and 
annotating, disseminating and publishing not only their results, but
all the data generated by all the steps of their processes, such as 
experimental data, learning materials, etc. These information objects 
might be not only of textual but also of multimedia format, e.g. 
molecular structures, 3D building engineering structures, 
epidemiological data, economical models, social policy simulations, or 
human genomic structures.

Metadata and ontologies are integral components of modern e-science and 
e-research infrastructures ensuring open, comprehensive and persistent 
access to scientific material. Challenges are still in place regarding 
their role in the process of storing, preserving, managing, retrieving 
and disseminating this type of information.

This special issue aims to generate a discussion forum that will bring 
together researchers and e-science infrastructure developers to discuss 
the issues in scientific data management and retrieval, the development 
of large scale scientific archives in the cloud, the parameters for 
designing and developing repositories and information access mechanisms.

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TOPICS
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Modelling of scientific content
Infrastructures, systems and services for knowledge organisation
Ontology approaches, models, theories and languages
Semantic representation of scientific content and remote collaboration
Metadata standards and application profiles for e-science/e-research
Multilingual metadata, vocabularies, taxonomies, glossaries and 
thesauri
Auto-generated vs. human generated e-science metadata
Visualisation techniques for metadata, content, repositories
Interoperability in e-research environments
Workflow management models
Open data and linked open data for e-science
Evaluation of metadata quality/metadata metrics
Cloud facilities and supercomputing for e-science
Archiving and preservation metadata and conceptual models

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IMPORTANT DAYS
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Submission of abstracts (recommended): 10 December, 2012 (by email)
Manuscript submission: 21 December, 2012 (online)
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 1 March, 2013
Final manuscript due: 1 April, 2013

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Potential contributors are strongly encouraged to submit an extended 
abstract for feedback as to the suitability of proposed papers to the 
following address before 10 December, 2012: mgarou at libd.teithe.gr.

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

All papers are refereed through a double-blinded peer review process. A 
guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for
submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page 
(http://www.inderscience.com/info/inauthors/author_mp.php).

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please go to 
Online Submissions of Papers 
(http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfpsub.php?jcode=ijmso). If 
you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contact 
submissions at inderscience.com, describing the exact problem you 
experience.