This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference
on Metadata and Semantic Research MTSR 2018 held in Limassol Cyprus on October 23-26 2018.
The 19 full and 16 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 77
submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on metadata linked data semantics
ontologies and SKOS digital libraries information retrieval big linked social and open
data cultural collections and applications Knowledge IT Artifacts (KITA) in professional
communities and aggregations Digital Humanities and Digital Curation (DHC) European and
national projects agriculture food and environment open repositories research information
systems and data infrastructures.
