[Wiktionary-l] ANN: 1st DBpedia Community meeting, 30th January at VU Amsterdam

** apologies for cross-posting, please forward to interested people and lists ** 1st DBpedia Community Meeting ==================== Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014 **Submission of presentations open**: http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014 The DBpedia Project in 2014: from a hosted data set to a public data infrastructure for the Web of Data. As the DBpedia community has grown extensively, we think that the time has come to get everybody in one large room and meet. We hope to get together three major groups involved in DBpedia: the /DBpedia developers and maintainers/, the communities of the individual /DBpedia language chapters/ and, of course, the /DBpedia users/. Quick Facts ======= When: January 30th, 2014 Where: VU Amsterdam, Netherlands (behind the high main building, nr 4 on the map ) Host: Dutch DBpedia Chapter (http://nl.dbpedia.org) and the VU Amsterdam Call for Contribution: **Submission Open** http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014 Registration: see http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014 Co-located with the PiLOD 2.0 meeting (http://www.pilod.nl) on January 29th, 2014 Acknowledgements ============ * We would especially like to thank Bibliotheek.nl -- Public Libraries of the Netherlands (http://bibliotheek.nl/) for supporting the Dutch DBpedia Chapter. * Koninklijke Bibliotheek -- National library of the Netherlands (http://www.kb.nl) for supporting the Dutch DBpedia Chapter and providing lunch for the meeting. * VU Amsterdam (http://www.vu.nl/) kindly provided the facilities for the meeting, with special thanks to Lora Arroyo from Biography Net (http://www.biographynet.nl/) * OpenLink Software (http://www.openlinksw.com/) for continuous hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint Abstract ====== (Please see http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014 for complete program) The meeting will be held at VU Amsterdam on Jan 30th and is co-located with the PiLOD 2.0 (http://www.pilod.nl) meeting one day earlier. The first session will be a discussion about the DBpedia State-of-Play, where core members of the DBpedia community present certain aspects of DBpedia and the audience is invited to give feedback and ask questions. The second session will be dedicated to users of DBpedia. We would like to invite companies, organisations and other project to shortly present their use cases for DBpedia and give input on how we can improve DBpedia for users. Free slots still available, apply here: http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014 After the lunch, we plan to have three break-out sessions for the topics (1) DBpedia and Library, (2) Linking text to LOD entities and (3) What is wrong with DBpedia? Developers discussion on how to improve our baby. Finally, the last parallel sessions are planned as: DBpedia tutorial, DBpedia I18N developers' session and a Local Dutch DBpedia Chapter Meeting with the additional possibility to continue break out sessions. -> Note the Local Dutch DBpedia Chapter might be held one day earlier at the Pilod meeting, please look here for updates in a couple of days ( written Jan 14th) . ==== About DBpedia ==== Source: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj499.pdf The DBpedia community project extracts structured, multilingual knowledge from Wikipedia and makes it freely available using Semantic Web and Linked Data standards. The extracted knowledge, comprising more than 1.8 billion facts, is structured according to an ontology maintained by the community. The knowledge is obtained from different Wikipedia language editions, thus covering more than 100 languages, and mapped to the community ontology. The resulting data sets are linked to more than 30 other data sets in the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud. The DBpedia project was started in 2006 and has meanwhile attracted large interest in research and practice. Being a central part of the LOD cloud, it serves as a connection hub for other data sets. For the research community, DBpedia provides a testbed serving real world data spanning many domains and languages. Due to the continuous growth of Wikipedia, DBpedia also provides an increasing added value for data acquisition, re-use and integration tasks within organisations. In this system report, we give an overview over the DBpedia community project, including its architecture, technical implementation, maintenance, internationalisation, usage statistics and showcase some popular DBpedia applications. Travel Grants / Sponsorship ================= Some of the DBpedia developers work on DBpedia in their free-time and will not have institutional funding to come to the meeting. Therefore, we are still looking for sponsors for travel grants (as well as coffee and food for the sessions). If you are interested to sponsor this meeting, please fill out this form to request more information: http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014 Given we can acquire a sponsor, participants can apply for a travel grant here: http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014 or email Sebastian (who will then add your request to the form ;) ) These grants will be awarded depending on the standing in the community and community activity, e.g. Google Summer of Code participation or Git Commits to DBpedia framework, activity on the mailing lists, etc. We hope to see you there, Gerard, Gerald (from Dutch DBpedia), Mariano from the Spanish DBpedia and Dimitris and Sebastian -- Sebastian Hellmann Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig Events: * *30th January, 2014*: 1st DBpedia Community meeting (http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014) * *Sept. 2014* MLODE Venha para a Alemanha como PhD: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/csf Projects: http://dbpedia.org, http://nlp2rdf.org, http://linguistics.okfn.org, http://dbpedia.org/Wiktionary Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann Research Group: http://aksw.org Stop asking, it's here: http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis-summary http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis