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I don’t usually weigh in here, but, in support of Karen’s (whom I do not know personally) original post: You know, when I have a bad time, I sometimes share it with colleagues. So I support hearing about it when another academic had a particularly bad experience. And it certainly doesn’t make up my mind automatically when someone expresses an opinion at me. Nor did I think her comments were particularly rancorous. Sharing is caring. Sorry you felt spanked, Chairs of MTSR 2019 Conference, but then your response seemed either overweening, perhaps “chairsplainin’,” and maybe a little Trump-y? Why not apologize if there was a disconnect and then hold out the olive branch? Randy …… Randal Sean Harrison, Ph.D. Emerging Technologies Librarian University of Notre Dame 158 Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 (574) 631-0312 [log in to unmask] randalseanharrison.com <http://randalseanharrison.com/> ⌖ Map to my office <http://randalseanharrison.com/new_office/map.png> ⌖ Make a meeting <https://randalseanharrison.youcanbook.me/> > On Aug 22, 2019, at 12:25 PM, Lina Bountouri <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > On behalf of the Chairs of MTSR 2019 Conference > > ------------------------------ > > Dear list members, > > We apologise for the long email. > > We apologize also that we have to reply to an email of a member in the > list, but this is not about saying that “we are right, you are wrong”, or > talk about why an author felt that the reviewers were “nasty” to a paper, > but about giving the facts about this issue, and protect the MTSR Community > (http://www.mtsr-conf.org/). > > MTSR is an inter-disciplinary conference, which brings together academics, > researchers, practitioners, librarians, etc. in the specialized fields of > metadata, ontologies and semantics research. Professionals from more than > 40 countries are involved. We feel that the comments of Karen Coyle insult > us personally and professionally and we have to reply by giving only facts. > > Conferences are vibrant events and no one says that mistakes never happen. > But If an author has any problem with a conference, a conference track or a > review process, the professional way to solve or discuss about it is > firstly to directly contact the Conference, try to find a solution or get a > proper explanation, and then, if s/he is not happy and go publicly to any > professional list. > > The International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR) goes > back to 2005. Since then the community has grown and become strong. > Proceedings have been published by the Springer's CCIS (Communications in > Computer and Information Science) Series. The acceptance rate of full > research papers for both the general session and tracks was 24.6% for MTSR > 2018. The rate of downloads of the proceedings and chapters is very high > according to Bookmetrix. > > When an author submits a paper to a conference is very important to read > the CfP and to read carefully also the Track CfP. Choosing the wrong Track > could lead to rejection. Authors that do not follow the required standards > set by the Conference and the Publisher could lead to rejection. Authors > that do not follow the instructions to authors, namely page length, > Publisher’s template, references, etc. could lead to rejection. In this > case, the author submitted a paper about FRBR in Jun 15, 19:23 in the track > “Knowledge IT Artifacts (KITA) in professional communities and > aggregations”. The paper was submitted anonymously, went through a blind > peer-reviewed process, and we had an outcome. > > After the review process an independent committee went through all the > procedures in order to check that the conference quality criteria have been > implemented during the review process. In case of this paper all the > procedures that followed were accurate. Nevertheless, the committee decided > to send the paper for a second round of review in the light of the comments > made by the reviewers. Two experts in the field did the second round of > reviews. In total the paper had 4 reviews. > > We always, as MTSR community, value the work of all authors. By sending > this paper after receiving two rejections to a second group of expert > reviewers for a second round of reviews, shows that MTSR Conference takes > seriously the review process and values the work of researchers. MTSR > evaluates all papers on their timeliness and novelty; significance to the > field and potential impact on the course of future work in the area; > document structure; clarity; quality of text; relevance to MTSR Conference > and methodology. > > Two final points: > > a) When an author submits a paper to a conference or a journal s/he expects > that her/his work is to be evaluated. > > b) MTSR will continue to work closely with the Community, PC members and > reviewers in order to improve further the quality of reviews, keeping the > high standards in the review process and the independent voice of reviewers. > > We will not respond to any other email concerning this issue. If you want > to have a vibrant experience with MTSR Community and Conference, we suggest > that you attend a conference or submit in the future your research work. > > Karen, we invite you to attend an MTSR Conference, and we are sure that you > will change your opinion about it. We feel that this is not fair for all > parties. > > We are looking forward to working with you. > > With best regards, > > Chairs of MTSR 2019 Conference > > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2019, 18:34 Karen Coyle, <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> >> Folks, >> >> I made the terrible mistake of submitting to this conference, so I >> wanted to let others know about my experience. The "review" that I >> received consisted of a 25-point nastygram, dripping sarcasm. I was >> utterly shocked, to say the least. This is without a doubt a conference >> that needs a Code of Conduct, but I'm not holding out hope for it. >> >> Clearly one that I will avoid in the future, and I regret having had >> contact with this community. The contrast with Code4Lib is like 0 to 1. >> Oh, boy, and I glad to be here! >> >> kc >> >> >> -------- Forwarded Message -------- >> Subject: [CODE4LIB] 1st C4P - SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for >> CULTURAL COLLECTIONS & APPLICATIONS >> Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 08:39:16 +0200 >> From: Lina Bountouri <[log in to unmask]> >> Reply-To: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> >> To: [log in to unmask] >> >> 1st Call for Papers, apologies for cross-posting >> ------------------------------ >> >> SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS & >> APPLICATIONS <http://www.ionio.gr/labs/dbis/mtsr2019/> >> >> Part of the 13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics >> Research (MTSR 2019) <http://mtsr-conf.org/home> >> October 28 – 31 2019, Rome, Italy >> >> *Submission deadline: June 16th, 2019* >> Proceedings will be published in *Springer CCIS series >> <http://www.springer.com/series/7899>* >> >> AIM AND SCOPE >> Cultural Heritage collections are essential knowledge infrastructures that >> provide a solid >> representation of the historical background of human communities. These >> knowledge infrastructures >> are constructed from and integrate cultural information derived from >> diverse memory institutions, >> mainly libraries, archives and museums. Each individual community has spent >> a lot of effort >> in order to develop, support and promote its own systems, tools and >> metadata for the management >> of cultural information, mainly related to its particular resources and >> use. >> >> In this framework, the management of the cultural information has to deal >> with challenges related to >> (i) metadata modeling, specification, standardization, extraction, >> (semantic) enrichment, mapping, >> integration, effective use, and evaluation, (ii) knowledge representation >> as conceptualization to >> provide the context for unambiguously interpreting metadata, and (iii) >> information integration from >> different contexts for the provision of integrated access, reuse and >> advanced services to users. >> >> At the same time, there are also inter-domain efforts targeted to >> semantically align data (research >> data, educational data, public sector information etc.) to cultural >> information. New challenges are >> also emerged from the need to incorporate cultural information into the new >> publication paradigms, >> where a variety of resources (data, metadata, processes, results, etc) are >> linked and integrated, >> providing better shareability and reusability. Currently, Linked (Open) >> Data, as part of the >> Semantic Web Technology, is having a major role in modernizing cultural >> heritage collections. >> Providing to users the possibility to re-use and integrate data into their >> own systems is currently >> more than a need, given that transparency and access to information is a >> prerequisite. A critical >> factor to the effectiveness of many aspects of all the above efforts is the >> quality of metadata, >> as interpreted by its context and use and evaluated by the proper measures >> and methods. Many >> institutions and aggregate infrastructures are dealing with the poor >> quality of metadata that >> inevitably results in poor integration, search and reuse, while their >> enrichment, in terms of >> contextualization, co-referencing, alignment, etc, is really challenging. >> >> The aim of this Special Track is to maintain a dialogue where researchers >> and practitioners working >> on all the aspects of the cultural information will come together and >> exchange ideas about open issues >> at all stages of the cultural heritage information life cycle. The track >> also welcomes works related to >> semantics and applications for new approaches to cultural information >> publication and sharing, as well >> as to interlinking to other datasets published in the Semantic Web >> universe. >> >> >> TOPICS >> The papers in this special track should be original and of high quality, >> addressing issues in areas >> such as: >> * Cultural Heritage metadata models, standards, ontologies, knowledge >> organization and representation systems >> * Cultural Heritage information integration, interoperability and mappings >> * Automated extraction of metadata, entities, and patterns from Cultural >> Heritage resources >> * Metadata manual or automated (Semantic) enrichment and search >> * Metadata quality metrics, tools and services >> * Linked Open Data approaches in the Cultural Heritage domain >> * Publication, linking and citation of Cultural Heritage information and >> resources >> * Large volume content management >> * 3D models-indexing, storage and retrieval approaches >> * Infrastructures for sharing content >> * Digital Curation workflows and models >> * Provenance and preservation metadata for Cultural Heritage digital >> resources >> >> SUBMISSION GUIDELINES >> Authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6 pages). >> Submitted papers have to >> follow the LNCS proceedings formatting style and guidelines >> < >> https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines?countryChanged=true >>> >> . >> >> Submissions should be original and not previously submitted, published and >> under review to other >> Conferences or Journals.The submitted papers will undergo the same peer >> review as the submissions >> for MTSR 2019 and accepted contributions will be published in the MTSR 2019 >> proceedings (Springer CCIS series <http://www.springer.com/series/7899>). >> Authors of accepted papers will be asked to register to the Conference and >> present their work. >> >> Selected papers might be considered for a revised and extended version to >> be published in a range of >> international journals, including the International Journal of Metadata, >> Semantics and Ontologies >> <https://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijmso> >> (Inderscience), and Data Technologies and Applications >> < >> http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=dta >>> >> (previously published as Program, Emerald). >> More information on submission can be found at the MTSR 2019 call for >> papers web page <http://mtsr-conf.org/call-for-papers>. >> >> >> IMPORTANT DATES >> June 16th, 2019: Submission deadline >> July 28th, 2019: Notification of decision (Acceptance/Rejection) >> August 25th, 2019: Camera-ready papers due >> October 28th – October 31st, 2019: Conference at the Marconi University in >> Rome, Italy >> >> >> SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS >> * Michalis Sfakakis, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian >> University, Corfu, Greece ([log in to unmask]) >> * Lina Bountouri, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian >> University, Corfu, Greece and NATO HQ, Brussels, Belgium ( >> [log in to unmask], >> [log in to unmask]) >> >> >> PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TBA) >>