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I thought that many on the list would be interested in this special issue.
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%% INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES %%
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%% METADATA AND DIGITAL LIBRARIES %%
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A special issue of the International Journal of Digital
Libraries (see below) is planned for publication in February,
1997. This issue will focus on issues concerning metadata
and digital libraries. Metadata is a term that is often used
to refer to the characterization of information objects for
purposes of locating, evaluating, and accessing appropriate
sets of objects. The typical approach to metadata taken by
traditional libraries involves selecting representations of
concepts that characterize the structure, context, content,
and evaluation of collection items; the extraction of such
representations from library items; and the use of these
representations for library functions that include indexing,
cataloging, and search. Digital library technology is capable
of both supporting major augmentations to each of these metadata
activities and providing a basis for catalog interoperability.
There is much current interest in issues relating to metadata
and catalog interoperability in digital libraries and a special
journal issue on such a topic is especially timely.
We seek original, high quality contributions in this general
area. Topics of interest for the special issue include, but are
not limited to:
o theoretical foundations of metadata;
o metadata as a knowledge base for digital libraries;
o knowledge representation languages for metadata;
o use of controlled subsets of natural language for
metadata representation;
o standards for the extraction, representation, and exchange
of metadata;
o integration of various metadata sources, such as ontologies,
thesauri, gazetteers, directories, and bibliographies;
o relationships between metadata activities in digital libraries
and metadata activities in areas such as scientific databases;
o automated extraction of metadata;
o database support for the storage and accessing of metadata;
o query languages for metadata;
o user-oriented (visual) representations of metadata;
o metadata and catalog interoperability;
o metadata in relation to Internet technologies;
o metadata for special classes of information objects,
such as maps, images, video, and multimedia.
The objective of the special issue is to provide an outstanding
set of articles that will have salient effects both on current
research and on current practise concerning the nature of metadata
and its use in digital library settings.
Because of the timeliness of the topic of metadata and the
associated issues, the following accelerated schedule will be
followed for the special issue of JODL:
o PAPERS DUE: October 15, 1996
o ACCEPTANCE: December 15, 1996
o FINAL VERSION: January 7, 1997
o PUBLICATION: February 1997
Papers should not exceed 8000 words in length. They should not have
been previously published, nor currently submitted to other journals
for publication. All papers will be refereed by anonymous referees
according to the highest standards. Papers should include a title
page containing title, authors' names and affiliations, postal and
email addresses, telephone numbers and Fax numbers. Papers should
include a 300-word abstract and 5-10 keywords. Please submit FIVE
COPIES of your manuscript to the guest editor by October 15, 1996:
Terence R. Smith
Department of Computer Science
University of California at Santa Barbara
CA 93106, USA
Tel: 805-893-2966
Fax: 805-893-8553
Email: [log in to unmask]
For further information, please contact the guest editor.
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%% INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES %%
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%% Springer Verlag %%
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%% Editors-in-Chief %%
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%% Nabil R. Adam Yelena Yesha %%
%% Rutgers University CIMIC UMBC/NASA CESDIS %%
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%% Advisory Board %%
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%% Al Aho, Columbia Univ. Dan Atkins, Univ. of Michigan %%
%% Milton Halem, GSFC-NASA Don Tiedeman, AT&T %%
%% Jim Flanagan, Rutgers University %%
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%% Editorial Board %%
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%% S. Abiteboul, Stanford University %%
%% P. Aigrain, Universite Paul Sabatier, France %%
%% P. Buneman, University of Pennsylvania %%
%% D. Choy, IBM Almaden Research Center %%
%% U. Dayal, HP %%
%% R. Jain, UC-San Diego %%
%% D. Maier, Oregon Graduate Institute %%
%% H. Maurer, Institute of IPCSM, Austria %%
%% A. McCray, The National Library of Medicine %%
%% A. Mendelzon, University of Toronto, Canada %%
%% S. Naqvi, Bellcore %%
%% E. J. Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Germany %%
%% C. Pu, Oregon Graduate Institute %%
%% E.A. Rundensteiner, University of Michigan %%
%% J. Slonim, IBM Centre for Advanced Studies, Canada %%
%% T. Smith, UC-Santa Barbara %%
%% S. Sugimoto, Univ. of Lib. Info. Sc., Japan %%
%% H. Wactlar, Carnegie Mellon University %%
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