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 ------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Associate Chairman Tel: +91-80-23600271, 23601427 National Centre for Science Fax: +91-80-23601426, 23600683 Information (NCSI) E-Mail: raja@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Indian Institute of Science URL: http://144.16.72.189/raja/ BANGALORE-560012 (India) ------------------------------------------------------------- SciGate: http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ The IISc Science Information Portal ===================================================================== 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 ===================================================================== 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 ----------- 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 ----------- 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 --------- 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 ----------------- 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 ------------ 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*.