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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>*************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: AgroSEM2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>7th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'13)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thessaloniki, Greece, November 19-22, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://mtsr2013.teithe.gr<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>*************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>*** Paper submission deadline: 20 June 2013***<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>AIM & TOPICS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The 6th Edition of the Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Food & Environment is hosted as part of MTSR 2013, and aims to bring together <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>researchers and practitioners that are working on agricultural, food-related and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>environmental knowledge production, organization, and exchange from a Semantic Web <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>perspective. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>It aims to serve as a discussion forum where interested experts will <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>present the results of their work, and establish liaisons with other groups that <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>are working on related subjects. In addition, it aims to outline the rich potential <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>of these subjects as an application field for advanced metadata- and semantic-driven <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>systems and services. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Topics include but are not limited to contributions dealing with the following<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>issues in the context of agriculture, food & environment:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Information standards and specifications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Metadata schemas and application profiles<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Multilingual vocabularies, taxonomies, glossaries and thesauri<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Metadata generation, harvesting, and exchange<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Knowledge acquisition, elicitation and extraction<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Infrastructures, systems and services for knowledge organization<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Knowledge repositories and archives<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Ontology approaches, models, theories, and languages<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Ontology development, integration, lifecycle, and evaluation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Management of large ontology-driven knowledge bases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>SPECIAL SESSION CHAIRS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Nikos Manouselis. Agro-Know Technologies (Greece)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Ioannis Athanasiadis. Democritus University of Thrace (Greece)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES-PY>* Juan Pane. Universidad Nacional de Asunción (Paraguay)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES-PY><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES-PY><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>20 June 2013: Paper submission (Springer LNCS style, PDF file submission)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>31 July 2013: Acceptance notification<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>20 August 2013: Camera-ready, revised version of accepted papers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>19-22 November 2013: MTSR'13 in Thessaloniki, Greece<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>SUBMISSIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Interested authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6 pages)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>about complete or ongoing research. Papers should be original and not previously submitted <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>to other venues. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>PUBLICATION<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Springer will publish MTSR'13 accepted papers in the form a book in the CCIS Series. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In addition, authors of papers in the Special Track will be invited to submit an <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>extended version of their manuscripts to a Special Issue of Elsevier's forthcoming <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>open access journal "Information Processing in Agriculture".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The proceedings of the previous Special Track on Agricultural Metadata & Semantics for <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Agriculture, Food & Environment at MTSR'12 have been published in Vol.343 of the CCIS Series <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>(http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-35233-1/page/1)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>and MTSR'11 have been published in Vol.240 of the CCIS Series<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>(http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-24731-6). A Special Issue of the International<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies has also resulted from this Track in the past:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticletoc.php?jcode=ijmso&year=2009&vol=4&issue=1/2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>ABOUT MTSR’13<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The 7th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'13)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>will be hosted by the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Greece from 19th to 22th of November 2013. It will take place at the Museum of <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Byzantine Culture,The Museum is located in the centre of Thessaloniki, in one of the <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>most beautiful modern public buildings in Greece. The museum aims to present a w<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>ide-ranging view of life in Byzantine and the post-Byzantine period including but <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>not limited to art, ideology, social structure and religion. In addition is explains <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>how historical changes and the political situation affected people's everyday life.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>MTSR'13 targets researchers and practitioners from the fields of metadata and semantics <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>research as, well as applications of the Semantic Web and related technologies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>See http://mtsr2013.teithe.gr for more details on travelling and accomodation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>*************************************************************<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>