This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference
on Metadata and Semantic Research MTSR 2017 2017 held in Tallinn Estonia November 28th to
December 1st 2017. The 18 full and 13 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and
selected from 58 submissions. They focus on the Internet of Things (IoT) and the practical
implementation of ontologies and linked data. Further topics are theoretical and foundational
principles of metadata ontologies and information organization applications of linked data
open data big data and user-generated metadata digital interconnectedness metadata
standardization authority control and interoperability in digital libraries and research data
repositories emerging issues in RDF OWL SKOS schema.org BIBFRAME metadata and ontology
design linked data applications for e-books digital publishing and Content Management Systems
(CMSs) content discovery services search information retrieval and data visualization
applications.