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This call for papers may be of interest to list members. Best regards, Joy Joy Davidson Associate Director Digital Curation Centre (DCC) HATII, University of Glasgow 11 University Gardens Glasgow G12 8QJ Tel: 0141 330 8592 Email: [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------ 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 =================== AIMS AND SCOPE =================== 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. =================== TOPICS =================== 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 =================== IMPORTANT DAYS =================== Manuscript submission: 27 January, 2013 (online) Notification of acceptance/rejection: 31 March, 2013 Final manuscript due: 30 April, 2013 =================== SUBMISSION GUIDELINES =================== 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: [log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask], describing the exact problem you experience.