[Eurchap] CfP: Special Issue on Metadata for e-science and e-research International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
Tsakonas Giannis
john at lis.upatras.gr
Mon Oct 1 13:46:13 EDT 2012
*** apologies for cross-postings ***
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.
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