MSCCA 2013 - Special track on Metadata & Semantics for Cultural Collections & Applications

Cultural heritage collections are essential knowledge infrastructures that provide a solid representation of the historical background of human communities, the development of their linguistic idioms and artistic expression, while they constitute important instruments for the social and ethnic cohesion.
The aim of this Special Track is to document the state-of-the-art in technologies and issues around cultural collections and back-end infrastructures. The objective is to generate a forum in which researchers and scientists that are working on relevant issues and applications to come together, meet and exchange ideas about the main open issues, so that more effective progress can be made in this area.
TOPICS
The papers in this special track should be original and of high quality, addressing issues in areas such as:
Cultural heritage metadata models and standards
Collection models and item - collection relationships representation
Collection - level metadata modeling and management
Ontologies and knowledge representation for the cultural heritage domain
Linked open data approaches for the cultural heritage domain
Composite content-discovery and management of components and interrelationships
Automated generation of metadata, especially for non-textual resources
Large volume content management - high resolution image data sets
3D models-indexing, storage and retrieval approaches
Federation of repositories/data infrastructures
Integration of heterogeneous resources
Infrastructures for sharing content
Digital Curation workflows and models
Preservation metadata for cultural heritage digital objects
Metadata quality metrics
Case studies