[Sigdl-l] Call for papers - Special issue of Library Review

[Ali Shiri]

Call for papers - Special issue of Library Review

Issue theme: 'Digital libraries and the Semantic Web: context, 
applications and research'

Details: http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/LibraryReview/

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Submissions are sought for a special issue of Library Review on the 
topic of 'Digital libraries and the Semantic Web: context, 
applications and research'.

For many digital libraries or cultural institutions, the Semantic Web 
offers an opportunity to better expose valuable digital resources 
pertaining to research, culture or history, using common standards 
and technologies in a collaborative and 'joined up' way. Semantic Web 
technologies are capable of enhancing digital libraries or 
repositories by facilitating improved user interfaces and 
human-computer interaction, improved navigation and retrieval within 
heterogeneous document environments, user profiling, personalisation 
and contextualisation, etc. Such technologies also have the potential 
to solve or aid the management of problems relevant to the LIS 
community, such as semantic interoperability, advanced metadata and 
information integration, the management of large corpora of 
heterogeneous digital resources, and so forth.

This special themed issue of Library Review consolidates similarly 
themed conferences (e.g. the International Conference on Semantic Web 
and Digital Libraries (ICSD-2007)) and aims to demonstrate the 
relevance and application of Semantic Web technologies to digital 
libraries, repositories, and the LIS community generally.

Submissions are welcome from all interested parties and communities. 
Submissions may comprise research papers, evaluation, case studies, 
and descriptions of innovative projects, theoretical expositions, or 
reviews. Topics for submission could include, but are by no means limited to:

* Digital library and Semantic Web project case studies, best 
practice examples, etc.
* Innovative uses of RDF applications such as Simple Knowledge 
Organization System (SKOS), Web Ontology Language (OWL), 
Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF), etc. within digital libraries or similar 
environments
* Use of Semantic Web techniques in the deployment of Networked 
Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS), including terminology services
* Large scale metadata integration
* Knowledge organization and ontologies (including the application of 
knowledge organization systems or ontologies in interfaces to digital 
libraries)
* Reviews of Semantic Web techniques and their actual (and potential) 
application within digital libraries
* Ontological navigation and inferencing/reasoning techniques
* Methodologies for ontology management, evaluation, mapping, 
merging, integration, etc.
* Semantically rich interfaces to digital libraries
* Management, use and navigation of bibliographic data using Semantic 
Web technologies
* Semantic Web approaches to information retrieval within digital libraries
* Storage, manipulation, querying of RDF data
* Technology and Semantic Web modelling tools
* Knowledge organization systems and user interfaces at the crossroads

Owing to the aim of this special issue, submissions on the above 
noted topics are encouraged to:

* Emphasise the practical implications of Semantic Web research or 
developments for digital libraries and repositories;
* Where possible, endeavour to note the relevance of research 
findings for future digital library management or service provision;
* Comment on areas of useful overlap between the digital library and 
Semantic Web developments and how the aims of each community can be 
furthered by increased collaboration.

Important dates are as follows:

* Friday 5th October 2007: deadline for submission of papers
* Monday 5th November 2007: acceptance notification
* Friday 7th December 2007: submission of 'camera ready' version 
(complete with reviewers' revisions/changes)
* Spring 2008: publication of special issue

For further submission details see: http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/LibraryReview/

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Ali Shiri, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Studies
University of Alberta
3-09 Rutherford South
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2J4

Phone: (780) 492-5315
Fax: (780) 492-2430
Email: ashiri at ualberta.ca
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