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Call for Papers
Advances in Digital Information Services and Metadata Research
Special Issue of the Online Information Review (OIR) journal

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/oir/oir.htm
Managing editor
   Miguel-Angel Sicilia %G–%@ Univ. of Alcalá, Spain
Information at:
   http://www.cc.uah.es/msicilia/OIR_special.pdf
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Motivation
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The emerging field of metadata research in a broad sense is creating 
a new framework for information management and access. Key recent 
developments are metadata integration languages, Semantic Web 
technologies and ontology representations of catalogues. This has 
resulted in new possibilities for integration and automation in 
digital libraries and Internet information sources, and it has also
resulted in a requirement for new assessment techniques and quality 
criteria.
Objectives
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The main objective of the special issue is to gather recent research 
results about any aspects of the use, creation, retrieval, 
distribution or analysis of digital resources and metadata.
Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
%G•%@ Metadata infrastructures, catalogues and interoperability.
%G•%@ Metadata in digital libraries.
%G•%@ Approaches to retrieval using metadata or ontologies.
%G•%@ Intelligent techniques for the handling of metadata.
%G•%@ Evaluation of information services
%G•%@ Quality of metadata and assessment of digital management
infrastructures.
%G•%@ Semantic Web and ontologies for metadata management, digital 
libraries
and information services.
%G•%@ New roles and techniques for metadata-intensive services.
Important dates
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Submission of extended abstracts (*) (2-3 pages): 30 October 2005.
Notification about appropriateness for the special issue: about 15 
November 2005
Submission deadline: 20 December 2005
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 25 February 2006
Final papers due: 15 April 2006
(*)The submission of extended abstract is only intended to provide 
feedback to authors about the appropriateness of their paper to the 
topics of the special issue, thus it is not mandatory.

Send your submissions to msicilia@uah.es and msicilia@gmail.com