MTSR 2024

18^th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research

Athens, 20 - 22 November 2024

Organization

General Chair

Emmanouel Garoufallou, International Hellenic University, Greece

Michalis Sfakakis, Ionian University, Greece

Christos Papatheodorou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Chair for MTSR2024

Program Chair

Athena Salaba, Kent State University, USA

Special Track Chairs

• Miguel-Ángel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain
• Francesca Fallucchi, Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy
• Riem Spielhaus, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany
• Ernesto William De Luca, Georg Eckert-Institute – Leibniz-Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany
• Armando Stellato, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
• Nikos Houssos, Sentio Solutions, Greece
• Michalis Sfakakis, Ionian University, Greece
• Lina Bountouri, EU Publications Office, Luxembourg
• Emmanouel Garoufallou, International Hellenic University, Greece
• Jane Greenberg, Drexel University, USA
• Richard J. Hartley, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• Stavroula Antonopoulou, Perrotis College, American Farm School, Greece
• Rob Davies, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Fabio Sartori, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• Angela Locoro, Università Carlo Cattaneo - LIUC, Castellanza (VA), Italy
• Arlindo Flavio da Conceição, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil.
• Rania Siatri, International Hellenic University, Greece

Steering Committee

• Juan Manuel Dodero, University of Cádiz, Spain
• Emmanouel Garoufallou, International Hellenic University, Greece
• Nikos Manouselis, AgroKnow, Greece
• Fabio Santori, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• Miguel-Ángel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain

Local Organizing Committee

• Argyro Frantzi, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• Vassilis Siochos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• Vassiliki Strakantouna, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• Costas Viglas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• Kyriaki Zoutsou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Organizing Committee

• Chrysanthi Chatzopoulou, Frontiers Media, Switzerland
• Anxhela Dani, LIBER Europe, The Netherlands
• Vasiliki Georgiadi, International Hellenic University, Greece
• Esmeralda Dudushi, CERN, Switzerland
• Chrysanthi Theodoridou, International Hellenic University, Greece

Technical Support Staff

• Ilias Nitsos, International Hellenic University, Greece

Program Committee Members (TBC)

• Trond Aalberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
• Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway
• Getaneh Alemu, Solent University, UK
• Arif Altun, Hacettepe University, Turkey
• Stavroula Antonopoulou, Perrotis College, American Farm School, Greece
• Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
• Panos Balatsoukas, King's College London, UK
• Wolf-Tilo Balke, TU Braunschweig, Germany
• Tomaz Bartol, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• José Alberto Benítez, University of León, Spain
• Ina Bluemel, German National Library of Science and Technology TIB, Germany
• Lina Bountouri, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg
• Derek Bousfield, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• Karin Bredenberg, The National Archives of Sweden, Sweden
• Patrice Buche, INRAE, France
• Gerhard Budin, University of Vienna, Austria
• Özgü Can, Ege University, Turkey
• Caterina Caracciolo, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Italy
• Christian Cechinel, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
• Artem Chebotko, DataStax, USA
• Philip Cimiano, Bielefeld University, Germany
• Sissi Closs, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• Mike Conway, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
• Constantina Costopoulou, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
• Phil Couch, University of Manchester, UK
• Sally Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato, New Zealand
• Ernesto William De Luca, Georg Eckert-Institute – Leibniz-Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany
• Milena Dobreva, Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria
• Juan Manuel Dodero, University of Cádiz, Spain
• Erdogan Dogdu, Çankaya University, Turkey
• Manuel Palomo-Duarte, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain
• Gordon Dunshire, University of Strathclyde, UK
• Biswanath Dutta, Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute, India
• Jan Dvořák, Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic
• Ali Emrouznejad, Aston University, UK
• Juan José Escribano Otero, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain
• Francesca Fallucchi, Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy
• María-Teresa Fernández-Bajón, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
• Manuel Fiorelli, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
• Arlindo Flavio da Conceição, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil
• Muriel Foulonneau, Knowledge Engineer at Amazon
• Enrico Fransesconi, EU Publications Office, Luxembourg
• Panorea Gaitanou, Hellenic National Defence College, Greece
• Ana García-Serrano, ETSI Informática - UNED, Spain
• María Teresa García, University of León, Spain
• Emmanouel Garoufallou, International Hellenic University, Greece
• Manolis Gergatsoulis, Ionian University, Greece
• Elena González-Blanco, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain
• Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain
• Jane Greenberg, Drexel University, USA
• Jill Griffiths, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• Siddeswara Guru, The University of Queensland, Australia
• Richard J. Hartley, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• Steffen Hennicke, Georg Eckert Institute – Leibniz Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany
• Nikos Houssos, Sentio Solutions, Greece
• Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Keith Jeffery, Keith G Jeffery Consultants, UK
• Frances Johnson, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• Dimitris Kanellopoulos, University of Patras, Greece 
• Pinar Karagöz, Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey 
• Pythagoras Karampiperis, AgroKnow, Greece
• Ivo Keller, TH Brandenburg, Germany
• Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus Ltd., UK
• Nikolaos Konstantinou, University of Manchester, UK
• Stasinos Konstantopoulos, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
• Christian Kop, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
• Nikos Korfiatis, University of East Anglia, UK
• Rebecca Koskela, Research Data Alliance, USA
• Jessica Lindholm, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Angela Locoro, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• Andreas Lommatzsch, TU Berlin, Germany
• Daniela Luzi, National Research Council, Italy
• Paolo Manghi, Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), National Research Council (CNR), Italy
• Brian Matthews, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
• Philipp Mayr, GESIS, Germany
• John McCrae, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
• Peter McKinney, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, New Zealand
• Riccardo Melen, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• Claire Nédellec, INRAE, France
• Ilias Nitsos, International Hellenic University, Greece
• Xavier Ochoa, Centro de Tecnologías de Información Guayaquil, Ecuador 
• Mehmet C. Okur, Yaşar University, Turkey
• Gabriela Ossenbach, UNED, Spain
• Laura Papaleo, Metropolitan City of Genova, Italy and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Juan Antonio Pastor, University of Murcia
• Christos Papatheodorou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Digital Curation Unit, IMIS, Athena RC, Greece
• María Poveda-Villalón, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Marios Poulos, Ionian University, Greece
• T. V. Prabhakar, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
• Aurelio Ravarini, Università Carlo Cattaneo – LIUC, Italy
• Maria Cláudia Reis Cavalcanti   Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil
• Cristina Ribeiro, INESC TEC, University of Porto, Portugal
• Eva Méndez Rodríguez, Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
• Dimitris Rousidis, International Hellenic University, Greece
• Athena Salaba, Kent State University, USA
• Salvador Sánchez-Alonso, University of Alcalá, Spain
• Ricardo Santos-Muñoz, Spanish National Library, Spain
• Fabio Sartori, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• Noemi Scarpato, San Raffaele Roma Open University, Italy
• Christian Scheel, Georg Eckert Institute – Leibniz Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany
• Jochen Schirrwagen, University of Bielefeld, Germany
• Birgit Schmidt, University of Göttingen, Germany
• Joachim Schöpfel, University of Lille, France
• Michalis Sfakakis, Ionian University, Greece
• Cleo Sgouropoulou, University of West Attica, Greece
• Kathleen Shearer, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), Germany
• Rania Siatri, International Hellenic University, Greece
• Miguel-Ángel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain
• Flávio Soares Corrêa da Silva, University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Ahmet Soylu, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Riem Spielhaus, Georg Eckert Institute – Leibniz Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany
• Lena-Luise Stahn, CeDiS - Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• Armando Stellato, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
• Imma Subirats, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Italy
• Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan
• Maguelonne Teisseire, Irstea Montpellier, France
• Jan Top, Wageningen Food & Biobased Research, The Netherlands
• Robert Trypuz, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
• Giannis Tsakonas, University of Patras, Greece
• Chrisa Tsinaraki, Technical University of Crete, Greece
• Andrea Turbati, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
• Yannis Tzitzikas, University of Crete and ICS-FORTH, Greece
• Christine Urquhart, Aberystwyth University, UK
• Evgenia Vassilakaki, EIOPA, Germany
• Sirje Virkus, Tallinn University, Estonia
• Andreas Vlachidis, University College London, UK
• Zhong Wang, Sun-Yat- Sen University, China
• Katherine Wisser, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, USA
• Georgia Zafeiriou, University of Macedonia, Greece
• Cecilia Zanni-Merk, INSA Rouen Normandie, France
• Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
• Marcia Zeng, Kent State University, USA
• Marios Zervas, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Thomas Zschocke, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Kenya
• Maja Žumer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Dionysios Benetos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• Panos Constantopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
• Anastasia Doxanaki, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• Mihnea Dobre, University of Bucharest, Romania
• Marcos Andre Gonçalves, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Fotis Koumboulis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• Irene Lourdi, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• George Markopoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• George Mikros, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
• Leonidas Papachristopoulos, Hellenic Open University, Greece
• Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece
• Michalis Sialaros, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• Hussein Suleman, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Giannis Tsakonas, University of Patras, Greece
• Maria Tzamtzi, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• Sofia Zapounidou, National Library of Greece