Rationale
A common vision that may serve as an enabler for sustainable development, environmental preservation, and fighting hunger in the world is the involvement collaboration and coordination of activities dealing with the production, organization and exchange of agricultural, food and environmental knowledge. Numerous technical and subject experts are working on related topics, tackling with issues such as classifications & taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, thesauri, authority files, glossaries, metadata specifications and their application profiles, as well as ontology-driven applications.
In this direction, initiatives such as the Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS) of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) have been launched to involve as wide a sector of the agricultural community as possible, including information providers, research institutes, academic institutions, educational/extension institutions, as well as the private sector. Important results have been produced as an outcome of this collaborative effort, and are already put in practice around the world.
Aim
The aim of the Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for
Agriculture, Food & Environment is to bring together
researchers and practitioners that are working on agricultural and food
& environment knowledge production, organization, and exchange from
a Semantic Web perspective.
The track will serve as a discussion forum for
experts to present recent scientific results, and establish liaisons
with other groups, and reflect on the state-of-the-art of advanced
metadata and semantic-driven systems and services for agriculture, food and environment.
Topics
Topics include but are not limited to contributions dealing with the following issues in the context of for agriculture, food & environment:
- Information standards and specifications
- Metadata schemas and application profiles
- Multilingual vocabularies, taxonomies, glossaries and thesauri
- Metadata generation, harvesting, and exchange
- Knowledge acquisition, elicitation and extraction
- Infrastructures, systems and services for knowledge organisation
- Knowledge repositories and archives
- Ontology approaches, models, theories, and languages
- Ontology development, integration, lifecycle, and evaluation
- Management of large ontology-driven knowledge bases
Important dates
- July 1st, 2010: Paper submission (PDF File formatted in Springer LNCS style)
- 15 July 2010: Acceptance (or rejection) notification
- 30 July 2010: Camera-ready, revised version of accepted papers
- 20-22 October 2010: MTSR'10 in in Alcala de Henares, Spain
Submissions
Interested authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or
short papers (6 pages) reporting on either mature or ongoing research. Papers should be
original and not previously submitted to other venues. Submission will
be available through the EasyChair
submission system.
If you haven't an EasyChair account yet, you'll be asked to
create it before you can access the MTSR'10 page.
Publication
The submissions to the Special Track will be reviewed by at least
two members of the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published
in the book of MTSR'10 proceedings by Springer
(CCIS Series).
The proceedings of the previous Special Track on Agricultural Metadata & Semantics
for Agriculture, Food & Environment at MTSR'09 have been
published in Vol.46
of the CCIS Series.
Authors of best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their manuscripts for a special issue of an
International Journal under preparation.
Special Track Chairs
- Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research & Technology Network (Greece)
- Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Switzerland)
- Johannes Keizer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Italy)
For your intention to submit a paper, or any other inquiry, contact the track chairs via email .
Special Track Program Committee
- Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete and FORTH (Greece)
- Howard Beck, University of Florida (USA)
- Shawn Bowers, Gonzaga University (USA)
- Jack Carlson, US Department of Agriculture (USA)
- Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete (Greece)
- Marcello Donatelli, European Joint Research Centre JRC (Italy)
- Kathryn Donnelly, Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway)
- Pankaj Jaiswal, Oregon State University (USA)
- Sander Janssen, Alterra (The Netherlands)
- Maria Keet, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)
- Brahim Medjahed, University of Michigan (USA)
- Petter Olsen, Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway)
- T.V. Prabhakar, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India)
- Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (Switzerland)
- Salvador Sanchez, University of Alcala (Spain)
- Gerald Schimak, Austrian Institute of Technology (Austria)
- Huub Scholten, Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
- Imma Subirats, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Italy)
- Ferdinando Villa, University of Vermont (USA)
- Bettina Waldvogel, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (Switzerland)
- Thomas Zschocke, United Nations University (Germany)
About MTSR'10
The 4th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'10) will be hosted by the University of Alcalá, Spain from 20th to 22th of October, 2010. MTSR'10 targets researchers and practitioners from the fields of metadata and semantics research as well as applications of the semantic web and related technologies.
See http://www.ieru.org/org/mtsr2010/ for more details on travelling and accomodation.