Semantic Search – Call for Papers for special issue of Aslib Journal of Information Management by Fran Alexander.
From the post:
I am currently drafting the Call for Papers for a special issue of the Aslib Journal of Information Management (formerly Aslib Proceedings) which I am guest editing alongside Dr Ulrike Spree from the University of Hamburg.
Ulrike is the academic expert, while I am providing the practitioner perspective. I am very keen to include practical case studies, so if you have an interesting project or comments on a project but have never written an academic paper before, don’t be put off. I will be happy to advise on style, referencing, etc.
Suggested Topics
Themes Ulrike is interested in include:
- current trends in semantic search
- best practice – how far along the road from ‘early adopters’ to ‘mainstream users’ has semantic search gone so far
- usability of semantic search
- visualisation and semantic search
- the relationship between new trends in knowledge organisation and semantic search, such as vocabulary norms (like ISO 25964 “Thesauri for information retrieval“) and the potential of semantic search from a more critical perspective – what, for example, are the criteria for judging quality?
Themes I am interested in include:
- the history of semantic search – how the latest techniques and technologies have come out of developments over the last 5, 10, 20, 100, 2000… years
- how semantic search techniques and technologies are being used in practice
- how semantic technologies are fostering a need for cross-industry collaboration and standardization
- practical problems in brokering consensus and agreement – defining terms and classes, etc.
- differences between web-scale, enterprise scale, and collection-specific scale techniques
- curation and management of ontologies.
However, we are open to suggestions, especially as it is such a broad topic, there are so many aspects that could be covered.
Fran doesn’t mention a deadline but I will ask and update here when I get it.
Sounds like a venue that would welcome papers on topic maps.
Yes?