International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies  (IJMSO)
ISSN (Online): 1744-263X  -  ISSN (Print): 1744-2621

Published in 4 issues per year  (View Subscription Price)

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   Objectives

The main objective of IJMSO is to provide an open forum in which several disciplines converge and provide their perspectives regarding the complex topic of metadata creation, use and assessment. Those disciplines include Digital Libraries, the Semantic Web, Library Science and Knowledge Management, among others.

   Readership

IJMSO aims at being an open forum for researchers, practitioners, managers and policy makers in the field of metadata, informing current practices with recent innovations.

   Contents

IJMSO publishes original research papers providing significant results, and also short communications about innovative ideas and news, announcements and reviews regarding the topics of the journal. Articles describing schemas or ontologies for concrete applications or domains are also welcomed, provided that a digital version of the final artefact is submitted to be made publicly available.

   Subject Coverage

Subjects covered include, but are not limited to:

• Metadata design and semantics
• Quality of metadata
• Evaluation and applications of metadata standards
• Metadata annotation practices
• Ontological and knowledge-based approaches to metadata
• Ontologies and standard catalogues specific to business or professional domains
• Semantic Web and ontologies in library science and digital libraries
• Metadata-based information retrieval and browsing
• Organisational and social aspects of Semantic Web and related technologies

   Specific Notes for Authors

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).

All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available in the Full Submission Guidelines web-page.

AUTHORS MUST SUBMIT THEIR PAPERS THROUGH THE ON LINE SUBMISSION SYSTEM, OTHERWISE THEIR PAPERS WOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR PUBLICATION

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 submissions@inderscience.com, describing the exact problem you experience. Please include in your email the title of the Journal.

   Editors and Members of the Editorial Board

Editor in Chief

Dr. Miguel-Angel Sicilia
Computer Science Department
University of Alcalá
Madrid
SPAIN
msicilia@uah.es

Associate Editors

Prof. Rajendra Akerkar
Chairman
Technomathematics Research Foundation
204/17 KH, New Shahupuri
Kolhapur 416001
INDIA

Prof. Tharam Dillon
Curtin University of Technology
Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence (DEBI) Institute
PO Box U1987
Perth WA 6845
AUSTRALIA

Prof. Asuman Dogac
Middle East Technical University
Department of Computer Engineering
Campus Inonu Bulvari
06531 Ankara
TURKEY

Dr. Miltiadis Lytras
University of Patras
Research Academic Computer Technology Institute and
Computer Engineering and Informatics Department
Patras
GREECE

Editorial Board Members

Dave BeckettDa
Institute for Learning and Research Technology
University of Bristol
8-10 Berkeley Square
Bristol BS8 1HH
UK

Gerhard BudinGe
Institut für Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsforschung und Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen
University of Vienna
1190 Vienna
AUSTRIA

Dr. Darina DichevaDa
Department of Computer Science
Winston-Salem State University
601 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Winston-Salem NC 27110
USA

Dr. Dragan GasevicDr
Athabasca University
School of Computing and Information Systems
1 University Drive
Athabasca, AB T9S 3A3
CANADA

Jérome GenselJ&
U.F.R Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société
Université Pierre Mendès-France
BP 47
38040 Grenoble Cedex 9
FRANCE

Prof. Jane GreenbergJa
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB #3360, 205 Manning Hall
Chapel Hill
NC 27599-3360
USA

Masahiro HoriMa
Faculty of Informatics
Kansai University
Osaka
JAPAN

Eero HyvonenEe
Department of Computer Science
University of Helsinki
P.O. Box 26
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
FINLAND

Dr. Vipul KashyapVi
Senior Consultant
Partners Healthcare System, Inc.
Clinical Informatics R&D
93 Worcester St, Suite 201
Wellesley, MA 02481
USA

Atanas KiryakovAt
Head
Ontotext Lab
Sirma AI EAD Ltd
135 Tsarigradsko Shose
Sofia 1784
BULGARIA

Prof. Dr. Zongmin MaZo
Northeastern University
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Shenyang, Liaoning 110004
P.R. CHINA

Dr. Nikos ManouselisNi
Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNET S.A.)
56, Messogion Av.
115 27 Athens
GREECE

William E. MoenWi
Texas Center for Digital Knowledge
School of Library and Information Sciences
University of North Texas
PO Box 311068
Denton TX 76203
USA

T.B. RajashekarT.
National Centre for Science
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore-560012
INDIA

John F. SowaJo
VivoMind
USA

Prof. Stuart A. SuttonSt
The Information School
iSchool Research Commons
University of Washington
4311 11th Ave NE, Suite 400
Seattle, WA 98105
USA

Dr. David TaniarDa
Monash University
Clayton School of Information Technology
Clayton, Victoria 3800
AUSTRALIA

Stuart WeibelSt
Senior Research Scientist
OCLC Office of Research
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
6565 Frantz Road
Dublin OH 43017-3395
USA