International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
- Editor in Chief
- Associate Prof. Emmanouel Garoufallou
- ISSN online
- 1744-263X
- ISSN print
- 1744-2621
- 4 issues per year
- CiteScore 1.2 (2022)

IJMSO aims at publishing research advances and discussions about metadata in a broad sense, and about their associated semantics and ontological structures, from a multi-disciplinary perspective, and with an emphasis on domain-specific ontologies and organisational, human interaction and social issues regarding metadata annotation, use and assessment. It also intends covering Semantic Web research, as a concrete metadata-intensive technological framework in which shared and standardised semantics are a critical issue.
Topics covered include
- 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
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.
IJMSO is indexed in:
- Scopus (Elsevier)
- Compendex [formerly Ei] (Elsevier)
- Academic OneFile (Gale)
- ACM Digital Library
- cnpLINKer (CNPIEC)
- DBLP Computer Science Bibliography
- Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)
- General OneFile (Gale)
- Google Scholar
- Info Trac (Gale)
- Inspec (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
- J-Gate
- io-port (FIZ Karlsruhe)
- Pascal (INIST-CNRS)
- ProQuest Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace
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More journal lists/directories...Editor in Chief
- Garoufallou, Emmanouel, International Hellenic University (IHU), Greece
(garoufallougmail.com)
Honorary Editor
- Sicilia, Miguel-Angel, University of Alcalá, Spain
Editors
- Greenberg, Jane, Drexel University, USA
- Papatheodorou, Christos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Associate Editors
- Akerkar, Rajendra, Western Norway Research Institute (Vestlandsforsking), Norway
- Sartori, Fabio, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Editorial Board Members
- Aalberg, Trond, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
- Alemu, Getaneh, Solent University, UK
- Bargmeyer, Bruce, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
- Beckett, Dave, University of Bristol, UK
- Buche, Patrice, INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), France
- Budin, Gerhard, University of Vienna, Austria
- Can, Ozgu, Ege University, Turkey
- De Luca, Ernesto William, Georg Eckert-Institute, Germany
- Dicheva, Darina, Winston-Salem State University, USA
- Dutta, Biswanath, Indian Statistical Institute, India
- Gasevic, Dragan, Monash University, Australia
- Gensel, Jérome, Université Pierre Mendès-France, France
- Hori, Masahiro, Kansai University, Japan
- Hyvonen, Eero, Aalto University, Finland
- Kashyap, Vipul, Partners Healthcare System, Inc., USA
- Kiryakov, Atanas, Sirma AI EAD Ltd, Bulgaria
- Lacroix, Zoe, Arizona State University, USA
- Ma, Zongmin, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
- Moen, William E., University of North Texas, USA
- Rajabi, Enayat, Cape Breton University, Canada
- Rajashekar, T.B., Indian Institute of Science, India
- Siatri, Rania, Agios Nikolaos General Hospital, Greece
- Sowa, John F., VivoMind, USA
- Sutton, Stuart A., University of Washington, USA
- Taniar, David, Monash University, Australia
- Weibel, Stuart, OCLC Office of Research, USA
Editorial Assistant
- Chatzopoulou, Chrysanthi, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
A few essentials for publishing in this journal
- Submitted articles should not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
- Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written (more details available here) and the author has cleared any necessary permissions with the copyright owner if it has been previously copyrighted.
- Briefs and research notes are not published in this journal.
- All our articles go through a double-blind review process.
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Journal news
Just how FAIR are your digital, scientific resources?
5 June, 2023
Writing in the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, a team from France has used the AgroPortal as a case study to help them develop a metadata-based automatic assessment methodology for such resources, which they call Ontology FAIRness Evaluator (O'FAIRe). Emna Amdouni, Syphax Bouazzouni, and Clement Jonquet of the University of Montpellier explain that making digital scientific data openly available remains an important challenge for the scientific community and funding agencies. The FAIR movement arose in 2014 to help address this challenge and has been largely embraced. However, FAIR, as many observers have pointed out, is only representing specifications for digital objects, or entities, rather than being a standardised or technically based system. There has thus been a need for a way to independently assess how well an entity adheres to the principles of FAIR [...]
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