Metadata and Semantic Research: Third International Conference, MTSR 2009, Milan, Italy, October 1-2

Theoretical Research: Results and Proposals.- VMAP: A Dublin Core Application Profile for Musical Resources.- Usage-Oriented Topic Maps Building Approach.- ManagemOnt: A Semantic Approach to Software Engineering Management Process.- Clarifying the Semantics of Relationships between Learning Objects.- A Framework for Automatizing and Optimizing the Selection of Indexing Algorithms.- Empirical Analysis of Errors on Human-Generated Learning Objects Metadata.- Analysis of Educational Metadata Supporting Complex Learning Processes.- A Fine-Grained Metric System for the Completeness of Metadata.- Unified Semantic Search of Data and Services.- Preliminary Explorations on the Statistical Profiles of Highly-Rated Learning Objects.- Applications: Case Studies and Proposals.- A Semantic Web Based System for Context Metadata Management.- An XML Pipeline Based System Architecture for Managing Bibliographic Metadata.- DataStaR: Bridging XML and OWL in Science Metadata Management.- Structured Metadata for Representing and Managing Complex 'Narrative' Information.- A Semantic Web Framework to Support Knowledge Management in Chronic Disease Healthcare.- Ontological Enrichment of the Genes-to-Systems Breast Cancer Database.- An Ontology Based Approach to Information Security.- Reusability Evaluation of Learning Objects Stored in Open Repositories Based on Their Metadata.- A Comparison of Methods and Techniques for Ontological Query Expansion.- Exploring Characterizations of Learning Object Repositories Using Data Mining Techniques.- Special Track: Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food and Environment.- Assuring the Quality of Agricultural Learning Repositories: Issues for the Learning Object Metadata Creation Process of the CGIAR.- Ontology Design Parameters for Aligning Agri-Informatics with the Semantic Web.- Developing an Ontology for Improving Question Answering in the Agricultural Domain.- A Service Architecture for Facilitated Metadata Annotation and Ressource Linkage Using agroXML and ReSTful Web Services.- A Water Conservation Digital Library Using Ontologies.- Evaluation of a Metadata Application Profile for Learning Resources on Organic Agriculture.- Ontology for Seamless Integration of Agricultural Data and Models.- Assessment of Food and Nutrition Related Descriptors in Agricultural and Biomedical Thesauri.- Networked Ontologies from the Fisheries Domain.- Improving Information Exchange in the Chicken Processing Sector Using Standardised Data Lists.- Navigation as a New Form of Search for Agricultural Learning Resources in Semantic Repositories.