Metadata and Semantics
for Agriculture, Food and Environment

The 4th International Workshop on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food and Environment is hosted as a special track of MTSR 2011, and aims to bring together researchers and practitioners that are working on agricultural, food-related and environmental knowledge production, organization, and exchange from a Semantic Web perspective.

It is an international discussion forum, where interested experts will present the results of their work, and establish liaisons with other groups that are working on related subjects. In addition, it aims to outline the rich potential of these subjects as an application field for advanced metadata- and semantic-driven systems and services. Topics include but are not limited to contributions dealing with the following issues in the context of agriculture, food and environment:

• Information standards and specifications
• Metadata schemas and application profiles
• Multilingual vocabularies, taxonomies, glossaries and thesauri
• Metadata generation, harvesting, and exchange
• Knowledge acquisition, elicitation and extraction
• Infrastructures, systems and services for knowledge organization
• Knowledge repositories and archives
• Ontology approaches, models, theories, and languages
• Ontology development, integration, lifecycle, and evaluation
• Management of large ontology-driven knowledge bases

Interested authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6 pages) about complete or ongoing research. Papers should be original and not previously submitted to other venues. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer Book style.

Submission is available through the EasyChair submission system. If you haven't an EasyChair account yet, you'll be asked to create it. Please indicate the group "Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food and Environment".

Springer will publish MTSR 2011 accepted papers in an edited book in the CCIS Series. Best papers of the conference be selected in revised and extended versions in forthcoming special issue as journal articles.

The proceedings of the previous Special Session on Agricultural Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food and Environment at MTSR 2010 have been published in Vol.108 of the CCIS Series.

Session Chairs

• Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Democritus University of Thrace (Greece)
• Nikos Manouselis, University of Alcala (Spain) and Agro-Know Technologies (Greece)
• Johannes Keizer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Italy)

Special Track Program Committee

• Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete and FORTH (Greece)
• Howard Beck, University of Florida (USA)
• Jack Carlson, Colorado State University (USA)
• Marcello Donatelli, European Joint Research Centre JRC (Italy)
• Kathryn Donnelly, Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway)
• Nikos Houssos, National Documentation Center (Greece)
• Maria Keet, University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
• Daniel Martini, KTBL (Germany)
• Dave Roberts, The Natural History Museum (UK)
• Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (Switzerland)
• Salvador Sanchez, University of Alcala (Spain)
• Gerald Schimak, Austrian Institute of Technology (Austria)
• Inigo San Gil, LTER Network (USA)
• Imma Subirats, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Italy)