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TO ANY RELEVANT LISTS*** <br>
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Dear colleagues, <br>
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Please find below a call for papers for a special issue that we are
preparing. Full submissions will be open until July 1st <b><font
color="#ff0000">**EXTENDED**</font></b><br>
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Best regards, <br>
<br>
Nikos Palavitsinis <br>
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International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO)
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Call for Papers <br>
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Special Issue on: "Advances in Metadata and Semantics for Learning
Infrastructures" <br>
<a
href="http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1795">http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1795</a>
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Guest Editors: <br>
Nikos Palavitsinis, University of Alcala de Henares, Spain, and
Agro-Know Technologies, Greece <br>
Joris Klerkx, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium <br>
Xavier Ochoa, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador <br>
<br>
A growing body of learning infrastructures and aggregators is making
digital learning resources available to any user searching for
educational content on various topics, through federations of
learning repositories. The fundamental reasons behind this trend
include growing educational demands in all countries, the limited
capacity of face-to-face education, the effort and cost involved in
building multimedia learning materials, and the new possibilities
offered by the Internet. <br>
<br>
Although well-known search engines can in fact successfully retrieve
millions of documents that exist online, based on some keywords, the
fact remains that there is no guarantee that the results will
contain trustable material which is exploitable in an educational
setting. Such information can usually be found in a complete
metadata record, which is not the case in many of the aforementioned
search results. <br>
<br>
Through the vast number of existing repositories, millions of
learning resources are being made available; a fact that raises
various research topics having to do with, amongst other things, the
technology that supports them, the standards being used to describe
learning objects, the quality of learning, metadata within the
repositories, etc. <br>
<br>
Openness of content and sharing of resources are also part of the
ethical but also very technical issues that arise for learning
repositories and learning infrastructures in general. The general
aim of this special issue is to assess the current status and
technologies, as well as to outline the major challenges and future
perspectives, related to the development of learning repositories
and wider infrastructures. It aims to provide an overview of the
state of the art in this field by including a wide range of
interdisciplinary contributions. Overall, it aims to outline the
rich potential of repositories for learning as an application field
for advanced metadata- and semantic-driven systems and services. <br>
<br>
Subject Coverage <br>
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Suitable topics include but are not limited to: <br>
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- Information standards and specifications <br>
- Metadata schemas and application profiles <br>
- Multilingual vocabularies, taxonomies, glossaries and thesauri <br>
- (Semi-) automatic metadata generation <br>
- Visualisation techniques for metadata, content, repositories <br>
- Metadata metrics <br>
- Learning content search and exchange <br>
- Infrastructures, systems and services for knowledge organisatio- n
<br>
- Learning content archives' preservation and maintenance <br>
- Ontology approaches, models, theories and languages <br>
- Semantic representation of learning materials <br>
- Cloud facilities and supercomputing for learning infrastructures <br>
- Attention, usage metadata and paradata for learning analytics <br>
- Quality in metadata <br>
- Multilingual metadata and semantics <br>
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Notes for Prospective Authors <br>
<br>
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be
currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B.
Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not
originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written). <br>
<br>
All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for
authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting
papers are available on the Author Guidelines page. <br>
<br>
Important Dates <br>
<br>
Submission of extended abstract (recommended-not obligatory): 1
April, 2012 (by email) <br>
Notification of appropriateness: 15 April, 2012 <br>
Manuscript submission: 15 June, 2012 (online) <br>
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 1 September, 2012 <br>
Final manuscript due: 1 November, 2012 <br>
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Editors and Notes <br>
<br>
Potential contributors are strongly encouraged to submit an extended
abstract for feedback as to the suitability of proposed papers to
the following address before 1 April 2012: <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:palavitsinis@agroknow.gr">palavitsinis@agroknow.gr</a>
<br>
<br>
All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please go to
Online Submissions of Papers. If you experience any problems
submitting your paper online, please contact <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:submissions@inderscience.com">submissions@inderscience.com</a>,
describing the exact problem you experience. (Please include in your
email the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and
the names of the Guest Editors) <br>
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Nikos Palavitsinis
PhD Candidate in University of Alcala de Henares, Spain
MSc in Geographic Information Systems, Agricultural University of Athens
BSc Information Systems, Athens University of Economics & Business
Department of Management Science & Technology
palavitsinis@{gmail.com;grnet.gr;aua.gr;uah.es}
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