3rd International Conference on Museum Big Data

(MBD2024) 18-19 NOVEMBER 2024

Athens, Greece

The MBD conference aims to attract academics, practitioners, and technologists engaged in the current research discourse on the new trends of the Museum Big Data domain; in addition, the conference aspires to showcase experimental work.

The MBD conference welcomes paper submissions from practitioners and researchers on their work in GLAMs (galleries, museums, libraries, archives) and other cultural heritage and memory institutions; everywhere that (Big) Data and cultural heritage come together.   The forum also welcomes inspirational examples from different institutions from the GLAM sector (galleries, libraries archives whose work can provide valuable lessons for the museums sector).

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers (10-15 pages, single-column style)
• 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 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. The papers must be submitted online via EasyChair, 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.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Paper submission deadline: 23 September 2024 07 October 2024
• Notification of acceptance: 09 October 2024 13 October 2024
• Camera-ready copies due: 30 September, 2024 30 October 2024
• Authors Registration due: 30 September, 2024 30 October 2024
• Conference days (On-site in Athens & Online): 18-19 November, 2024

List of Topics

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

Committees

 General Chair

• Georgios Papaioannou, Ionian University

Program Committee Chairs

• Matthew Damigos, Ionian University
• Michalis Sfakakis, Ionian University
• Christos Papatheodorou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Honorary Chair

• Milena Dobreva, University of Strathclyde

Publication

MBD 2024 proceedings will be published in CEUR-WS.org (indexed by DBLP, Scopus, GoogleScholar etc.), and extended versions of selected papers will be published in an international peer-reviewed journal.

Venue

The conference will be held at the ‘Ioannis Drakopoulos’ Amphitheatre of the Main Building of the University of Athens (NKUA), 30 Panepistimiou Str., Athens, Greece.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to gpapaioa@ionio.gr.