Call for Papers

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Paper submission deadline: 23 September, 2024 07 October 2024
  • Notification of acceptance: 13 October 2024 28 October 2024
  • Camera-ready copies due: 30 October 2024 06 November 2024
  • Authors Registration due: 30 September, 2024 30 October 2024
  • Conference days (On-site in Athens & Online): 18-19 November, 2024

 

PUBLICATION

Proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS.org (indexed by DBLP, Scopus, GoogleScholar etc.), and extended versions of selected papers will be published in an international peer-reviewed journal.

 

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

The MBD conference now invites submission of Full Papers (10-15 pages, single-column style) and Short Papers (5-9 pages, single-column style) reporting completed research. Submissions should be original, not previously submitted, published, and under review to other Conferences or Journals. Following a double-blind peer review process, all submissions will be reviewed based on relevance, originality, importance, and clarity. Submitted papers have to follow the new single-column CEUR-ART formatting style and guidelines. For details on preparing the submission using the CEUR-ART style, see Publishing at CEUR-WS.org. Templates for LaTeX and DOCS format can be downloaded from https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip.  The papers must be submitted online via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mbd2024), in PDF format.

Authors of accepted submissions will be asked to register for the Conference and present their work in the form of an oral presentation.

 

SCOPE

We invite submissions on diverse topics related to (Big) Data management for Museums and related fields including, but not limited to:

  • Museum Big Data in the COVID-19 and post COVID-19 times
  • Museum Big Data: Theoretical Issues and critical approaches
  • Digital transformation in the GLAM sector
  • Data-driven museums and the world
  • Data mining, AI, Machine Learning methodologies and research approaches
  • Information retrieval, Knowledge discovery and Recommender systems on digital content
  • Issues on (Big) Data preservation, use and re-use in galleries, libraries, archives and museum (GLAMs)
  • IoT and Museums
  • Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality, Metaverse on Museums
  • Museum Big Data and Digital Humanities
  • Museum Big Data and Open Access
  • Metadata and documentation
  • Interoperability
  • Museum Data and their applications in education
  • Museum research data management and applications
  • Museum digital narratives and flows
  • Museum data on the web and Social Media (including Museum Twitter Studies)
  • Art Data history
  • Documenting, Managing and disseminating digital art and artworks
  • Semantic Web, linked (open) data, and metadata technologies
  • Ontologies and knowledge organization systems
  • Natural language processing techniques in digital collections
  • Museum data and/from audience research,
  • Museum Big Data from digitisation and collection management and practices,
  • Museums Big Data ethics,
  • New realities and skills for data and the museum professionals,
  • Museum Big Data future(s)
  • Distributed Ledger Technologies in GLAMs
  • Infrastructures & development of Web Archives
  • Quality assurance of digital content
  • Visualization, user interface, and user experience
  • Personal information management and personal digital content
  • Cultural heritage access and analysis
  • Cultural heritage and museum informatics
  • Collaborations among archives, libraries, and museums
  • Blockchain applications on Museums and digital objects

PREPARING AND SUBMITTING THE CAMERA-READY VERSION

Papers MUST be prepared according to the CEUR-WS.org requirements (see here: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html). In particular, submitting the camera-ready version of the paper requires preparation of the camera-ready version and preparation of the Author Agreement. Please see the instructions below for each of them. Note that the authors should upload into EasyChair both the last version of the paper in the pdf format, along with the sources used to generate the pdf file, and the completed Author Agreement.

Preparing the final version of the paper

  • We strongly advise you to consider and follow all the suggestions given by the reviewers.
  • Papers should use the single-column style of CEUR-WS.org.
  • Full Papers should be between 10 and 15 pages and Short Papers should be between 5 and 9 pages.
  • The papers should use the CEUR-WS.org templates, either for LaTeX or for Word.
  • The note “You can use this document as the template for preparing your publication. We recommend using the latest version of the ceurart style.”, which is included in the default template, should not be visible in the pdf version of the paper.
  • The final version of the paper, regardless of the format, should include the correct conference information, which is: MBD2024: International Conference On Museum Big Data, November 18–19, 2024, Athens, Greece
  • The final version of your paper in DOCX, ODT, or the paper’s source latex files should be named “MBD_2024_paper_ YourSubmissionNumber”.
  • The final version of your paper in PDF should be named “MBD_2024_paper_ YourSubmissionNumber.pdf”.

    where [YourSubmissionNumber] refers to the unique submission number given by EasyChair.

    To properly specify the conference information, please follow the instructions below:

    • For LaTeX papers, replace the text in the \conference{…} command with the text above; i.e., the resulted command should be: \conference{MBD2024: International Conference On Museum Big Data, November 18–19, 2024, Athens, Greece}
    • For either odt or docx files, replace the text in the footnote of the first page as shown in the following figure:

    For the authors’ convenience, please find here an updated version of the template, where the conference information is properly set up. Note that if you are using the Overleaf template, ensure the configurations mentioned above have been followed properly.

    Also, keep in mind for your camera-ready paper:

    • Names are to be written out in full whenever possible; Do not use only capital letters for author names.
    • Authors should include their ORCIDs in their paper.
    • Make sure that you add affiliation and email addresses.
    • DO NOT write the title of your paper in capital letters.
    • Check and improve your abstract and keywords.
    • Please also make sure that no academic titles are included in the headers.
    • The authors should check carefully all their references.

     Submitting the final version of the paper

    You must update your EasyChair submission by uploading a ZIP file named “MBD_2024_paper_ YourSubmissionNumber.zip” that includes a folder named with the same name as the ZIP file. The system will open on 30th October 2024 and close on 11th November 2024 (new Camera-ready papers due).

    The folder must include:

    • Sources of the final paper: the final version of your paper in MS-WORD, ODT format, or source latex files named “MBD_2024_paper_ YourSubmissionNumber”. The instructions mentioned above should have been followed to prepare this version.
    • Final version in PDF format: the final version of your paper in PDF named “MBD_2024_paper_ YourSubmissionNumber.pdf”, generated from the last version of the source files.

     Preparing Author Agreement

    The authors should upload to the EasyChair platform an Author Agreement form, signed and completed, for each accepted paper, according to the following instructions (select the appropriate form from the below variants, download it, complete it, sign it, and upload it to the EasyChair):

    1. AUTHOR-AGREEMENT (NTP): Authors shall use this form if they included no copyrighted third-party material in their paper text (or accompanying sources, datasets), and no material in the paper was produced with the help of Generative Artificial Intelligence tools including tools based on large language models (LLM). This is the right variant in most cases.
    2. AUTHOR-AGREEMENT (TP): Authors shall use this form if they did include copyrighted third-party material in their paper or accompanying material or if they used Generative Artificial Intelligence tools to produce material in the paper. In case of third-party material, they must then append a copy of the permission(s) by the third parties to use this material to the signed author agreement! In the case of material produced by Generative Artificial Intelligence tools, they must fill in and sign a declaration on which elements of the paper were produced by AI tools, see AI STATEMENT. This signed declaration must then be scanned and appended to the signed author agreement. Check ACADEMIC-ETHICS for our rules on including such material.

    Preparation of the Author Agreement – clarifications:

    A] Herewith I/we (the author(s) resp. the copyright holders) agree that my/our contribution:  Your paper title

    B] authored by: Please state the full name(s) of the author(s) of your paper

    C] with corresponding author: Please state the Name (first name and surname), the Affiliation, the Address, and the email of the corresponding author.

    D] Name and year of the event: 3rd International Conference On Museum Big Data (MBD 2024), November 18-19, 2024, Athens, Greece

    E] Editors of the proceedings (editors):   Georgios Papaioannou and Matthew Damigos

     

    Registration for MBD2024 [and author(s) fees] must be received before November 11th, 2024 (which is compulsory for at least one author per paper) in order for the paper to be published. The aforementioned applies also to authors who will present two or more accepted papers at the conference. Information on how to register and pay the conference fee can be found at https://2024.museumbigdata.org/registration/.

     Please contact proceedings editors Georgios Papaioannou and Matthew Damigos through mbd2020@museumbigdata.org if you want to discuss issues about publishing your accepted paper.