[LIS-Forum] International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO)

[Dr. T.B. Rajashekar]

Dear LIS-Forum members

I am giving below details of a new journal in the area of metadata. Many of
you may be interested in this.

Regards

Rajashekar

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International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO)
Inderscience Publishers
- ISSN (Online): 1744-263X - ISSN (Paper): 1744-2621
First, preliminary call for papers, July 2004
https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=152
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IJMSO aims at publishing research advances and discussions about
meta-data in a broad sense, and about their associated semantics
and ontological structures.
IJMSO takes a multi-disciplinary perspective, with an emphasis
on domain-specific ontologies and organisational, human interaction
and social issues regarding metadata annotation, use and assessment.
IJMSO also intends to cover Semantic Web research, as a concrete
metadata-intensive technological framework in which shared and
standardised semantics are a critical issue.

Objectives
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The main objective of IJMSO is to provide an open forum in which
several disciplines converge and provide their perspectives regarding
the complex topic of metadata creation, use and assessment.
Those disciplines include Digital Libraries, the Semantic Web,
Library Science and Knowledge Management, among others.


Readership
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IJMSO aims at being an open forum for researchers, practitioners,
managers and policy makers in the field of metadata,informing
current practices with recent innovations.

Contents
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IJMSO publishes original research papers providing significant results,
and also short communications about innovative ideas and news,
announcements and reviews regarding the topics of the journal.
Articles describing schemas or ontologies for concrete applications
or domains are also welcomed, provided that a digital version of the
final artefact is submitted to be made publicly available.


Subject Coverage
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Subjects covered include, but are not limited to:
• Metadata design and semantics
• Quality of metadata
• Evaluation and applications of metadata standards
• Metadata annotation practices
• Ontological and knowledge-based approaches to metadata
• Ontologies and standard catalogues specific to business
or professional domains
• Semantic Web and Ontologies in Library Science and Digital Libraries
• Metadata-based information retrieval and browsing
• Organisational and social aspects of Semantic Web
and related technologies


Submissions
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Visit http://www.inderscience.com for information on submission.
Contributions synthesizing existing knowledge and clearly
describing research directions are sought for the first issue.
Deadline for submission for the *first issue is October 1st 2004*.