The 6th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2012) will take place this year at the University of Cádiz in Spain, 28-30 November 2012. The overall programme has now been published on the MTSR 2012 website. A detailed schedule is also available at lanyrd.

Special tracks

The programme includes special tracks focusing on the following particular domains or topics:

Special Track on Open Access Repositories, Research Information Systems and Infrastructures. AIMS team members/collaborators will present during this track 2 presentations:

• "Metadata quality evaluation of a repository based on a sample technique" by Marc Goovaerts and Dirk Leinders.
• "Reorienting open repositories to the challenges of the Semantic Web: Experiences from FAO’s contribution to the resource processing and discovery cycle in repositories in the agricultural domain"" by Imma Subirats, Thembani Malapela, Sarah Dister, Marcia Zeng, Marc Gooaverts, Valeria Pesce, Yves Jaques, Stefano Anibaldi and Johannes Keizer. 

General Track (Metadata)

General Track (e-Government)

Special Track on Agriculture, Food and Environment

Special Track on Cultural Collections and Applications

General Track (Linked Data & Semantics)

Proceedings

Proceedings of previous MTSR conferences have been published in the Springer's CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science) Series and will be published for MTSR 2012 as well.