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5Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 04:51:01 +0000
From: K.S. Raghavan  <ksragav at hotmail.com>

Recent technological developments have enabled ready access to more 
information and data than can be comprehended and managed effectively. 
Ontology is an important knowledge organization tool and has a crucial 
role to play in capturing, organizing, representing and assigning meaning 
to information, data and knowledge.

However, even after three decades of research, ontology development 
remains within the realm of research and has not entered the daily 
professional activity of librarians and information professionals. 
Ontology promises to enable intelligent Web applications, but such 
intelligent applications do not seem to have invaded the public and 
business domains. Many papers on ontology are merely descriptive - 
describing an ontology, ontology construction process, or a prototype 
application; there has been insufficient effort to draw out lessons and 
derive fundamental principles.

This special issue of LIBRES seeks to identify such lessons and principles 
related to ontology development and application, and to suggest a 
direction for ontology research in the field of Information Studies. 
Papers that focus on issues and challenges in building large-scale 
ontologies, representing complex semantic constructs in languages like 
OWL, merging ontologies as well as successful designs for systems and 
experiments in the use of ontologies in knowledge management, information 
retrieval and knowledge discovery are sought. The special issue will also 
seek to bridge the gap between perceptions of the LIS community and 
ontology engineers to suggest a way forward. Critical papers on ontology 
editors - both commercial and open source software - will also be 
considered for publication. All submissions will be peer-reviewed.

Deadlines:
- Submission of title & abstract for preliminary review: May 15, 2016
- Submission of full paper for review:  June 30, 2016

Author guidelines can be found at: 
http://libres-ejournal.info/author-guidelines/

LIBRES is a peer-reviewed open-access journal, published by Nanyang 
Technological University (Singapore), Wee Kim Wee School of Communication 
& Information. It was previously published by Curtin University 
(Australia), Department of Information Studies. LIBRES is indexed by ISA, 
LISA, EBSCO, Scopus and Cabells.

Guest editors for the special issue of LIBRES:
Dr. Kavi Mahesh (drkavimahesh at gmail.com<mailto:drkavimahesh at gmail.com>)
Dr K. S. Raghavan (ksragav at hotmail.com<mailto:ksragav at hotmail.com>)

Centre for Knowledge Analytics & Ontological Engineering (KAnOE),
PES University, Bangalore, India

K. S. Raghavan
Visiting Scientist
Centre for Knowledge Analytics & Ontological Engineering (KAnOE)
PES University
100 Feet Ring Road, BSK 3rd Stage
Bengaluru 560085



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