Call for Papers

Journal of Library Metadata Special Issue

Controlled Vocabularies and the Semantic Web

Ranging from large national libraries to small and medium-sized
institutions,
many cultural heritage organizations, including libraries, archives, and
museums, have been working with controlled vocabularies in linked data and
semantic web contexts. Such work has included transforming existing
vocabularies, thesauri, subject heading schemes, authority files, term and
code
lists into SKOS and other machine-consumable linked data formats.

This special issue of the Journal of Library Metadata welcomes articles
from a
wide variety of types and sizes of organizations on a wide range of topics
related to controlled vocabularies, ontologies, and models for linked data
and
semantic web deployment, whether theoretical, experimental, or actual.

Topics include, but are not restricted to the following:
Converting existing vocabularies into SKOS and/or other linked data formats.
Publishing local vocabularies as linked data in online repositories such as
the
Open Metadata Registry.
Development or use of special tools, platforms and interfaces that
facilitate
the creation and deployment of vocabularies as linked data.
Working with Linked Data / Semantic Web W3C standards such as RDF, RDFS,
SKOS,
and OWL.
Work with the BIBFRAME, Europeana, DPLA, CIDOC-CRM, or other linked data /
semantic web models, frameworks, and ontologies.
Challenges in transforming existing vocabularies and models into linked data
and semantic web vocabularies and models.
Click here for a complete list of possible topics:
http://tandf.msgfocus.com/c/13QCaxBT4l1hMFZ

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a proposal
(approximately
500 words) including a problem statement, problem significance, objectives,
methodology, and conclusions (or tentative conclusions for work in
progress).
Proposals must be received by March 1, 2015. Full manuscripts (4000-7000
words)
are expected to be submitted by June 1, 2015. All submitted manuscripts
will be
reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Please forward inquiries and
proposal
submissions electronically to the guest editors at [log in to unmask]

Editor-in-Chief
Jung-ran Park
Drexel University

Guest Editor
Jody Perkins
Miami University

Guest Editor
Steve Miller
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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*Center for Digital Scholarship*

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