First and foremost, we would like to thank Jirka Kosek (University of Economics, Prague), Milan Dojchinovski (AKSW/KILT, Czech Technical University in Prague), Tomáš Kliegr (KIZI/University of Economics, Prague) and, the XML Prague conference for co-hosting and support the event.

Opening the DBpedia community meetup

The Czech DBpedia community and the DBpedia Databus were in the focus of this meetup. Therefore, we invited local data scientists as well as DBpedia enthusiasts to discuss the state-of-the-art of the DBpedia databus. Sebastian Hellmann (AKSW/KILT) opened the meeting with an introduction to DBpedia and the DBpedia Databus. Following, Marvin Hofer explained how to use the DBpedia databus in combination with the Docker technology and, Johannes Frey (AKSW/KILT) presented the methods behind the DBpedia’s Data Fusion and Global ID Management.

Showcase Session

Marek Dudáš (KIZI/UEP) started the DBpedia Showcase Session with a presentation on “Concept Maps with the help of DBpedia”, where he showed the audience how to create a “concept map” with the ContextMinds application. Furthermore, Tomáš Kliegr (KIZI/UEP) presented “Explainable Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs”. He explained his contribution to a rule-based classifier for business use cases. Two other showcases followed: Václav Zeman (KIZI/UEP), who presented “RdfRules: Rule Mining from DBpedia” and Denis Streitmatter (AKSW/KILT), who demonstrated the “DBpedia API”.

Closing this Session, Miroslav Blasko (CTU, Prague) gave a presentation on “Ontology-based Dataset Exploration”. He explained a taxonomy developed for dataset description. Additionally, he presented several use cases that have the main goal of improving content-based descriptors.

Summing up, the DBpedia meetup in Prague brought together more than 50 DBpedia enthusiasts from all over Europe. They engaged in vital discussions about Linked Data, the DBpedia databus, as well as DBpedia use cases and services.

In case you missed the event, all slides and presentations are available on our website. Further insights  feedback, and photos about the event can be found on Twitter via #DBpediaPrague.

We are currently looking forward to the next DBpedia Community Meeting, on May 23rd, 2019 in Leipzig, Germany. This meeting is co-located with the Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK) conference. Stay tuned and check Twitter, Facebook and the website or subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news and updates.

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In cooperation with Thomas Riechert (HTWK/InfAI), the DBpedia Association organized our second DBpedia meetup this year, this time in Lyon. On July 3rd, 2018, we met the French DBpedia Community at the ENS in person and presented the vision of the new DBpedia Databus, an opportunity which simplifies the work with data.

First and foremost, we would like to thank the Institute for Applied Informatics for supporting our community and the LARHRA Laboratory as well as the ENS for hosting our community meetup. Special thanks go to Thomas Riechert and Vincent Alamercery (LARHRA Lyon) for organizing the event.

Opening Session

Sebastian Hellmann (AKSW/KILT) opened up the meetup in Lyon by introducing the DBpedia development strategy and the new DBpedia Databus to the French DBpedia community (slides). Afterwards, Elmahdi Korfed from INRIA presented new features and tools as results developed in  the French DBpedia chapter (slides):

• QA KIS
• CORESE
• Discovery Hub
• AZKAR
• WASABI

In the following months, Elmahdi plans to work on the DBpedia historic live version and the DBpedia wiki commons. His research will be presented during our 12th DBpedia Community meeting on September 10th, in Vienna.

Following Elmahdi, Francesco Beretta presented LARHRA laboratory and its different research areas. In particular, he introduced the Data for History Consortium which is an international consortium founded in 2017 with the aim of improving geo-historical data interoperability in the semantic web.

Afternoon Track

The afternoon track started out with an inspiring presentation by Adam Sanchez from the University of Grenoble. He talked about ‘RDFization of a relational database from medicine domain using Ontop’ (slides) and introduced the Ontop mappings. Afterwards, Oscar Rodríguez Rocha (University of Côte d’Azur) showcased the application ‘Automatic Generation Educational Quizzes’ from DBpedia (slides) and explained how the automatic generation of quizzes works based on the game Les Incollables.

The meeting concluded with a dynamic discussion on the DBpedia Databus and potential collaborations between the DBpedia Association and the French DBpedia Chapter.

All slides and presentations are available on our Website. You can find more feedback and photos about the event on Twitter via #DBpediaLyon.

You still can’t get enough of DBpedia?

Don’t worry, we already have another meeting of the DBpedia community in the pipeline. Our 12th DBpedia Community meeting is scheduled for September 10th and preparations on the program are already in full swing. Our DBpedia Day will kick-off this year’s edition of SEMANTiCS 2018, hosted at TU Vienna and brings the European DBpedia community together.

You want to contribute? Please submit your proposal and be a part of our amazing program. Register here and meet us and other DBpedia enthusiasts in Vienna. We are looking forward to your contribution.  

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See you soon!

Yours,

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The meetup focuses on connecting the community interested in DBpedia and Knowledge Graphs in general, has included lightning talks by distinguished speakers (e.g. from Stanford, Google, IBM Watson, Netflix, LinkedIn, Wikimedia Foundation, Nuance, etc.). Talk topics have extended also to natural language processing, knowledge representation, information extraction, integration and retrieval, graph databases, knowledge base embeddings and machine learning.

We are looking forward to meeting again in person with the US-based DBpedia Community.

Quick facts

• Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/California2017
• Hashtag: #DBpediaCA
• When: October 12th, 2017
• Where: Apple Inc., De Anza 3 Theater and Atrium (1st floor), 10500 N De Anza Blvd, Cupertino, CA 95014-2033, United States

• Host: Apple Inc.
• Registration: through eventbrite (limited seats)

Schedule

Please check our schedule for the next DBpedia Community Meeting here: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/California2017

Acknowledgments

If you would like to become a sponsor for the 11th DBpedia Meeting, please contact the DBpedia Association.

Organisation

• Pablo N. Mendes (host, program chair), Apple Inc.
• Taylor Rhyne (host), Apple Inc.
• Magnus Knuth, AKSW/KILT
• Filipe Mesquita, diffbot
• Dimitris Kontokostas, DBpedia Chapter Coordinator
• Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, DBpedia Association
• Thanks to Anna Lisa Gentile (IBM Research) and Samuel Goto (Google)

Registration

Attending the DBpedia Community Meeting is free of charge, but seats are limited. Make sure to register to reserve a seat.

We are looking forward to meeting you in California.

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After our 2nd Community Meeting in the US, we delighted the Irish DBpedia Community with the 9th DBpedia Community Meeting, which was co-located with the Language, Data and Knowledge Conference 2017 in Galway at the premises of the NUI Galway.

First and foremost, we would like to thank John McCrae (Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway) and the LDK Conference for co-hosting and support the event.

The focus of this Community Meeting was the Irish DBpedia and Linked Data Community in Ireland. Therefore we invited local data scientists as well as European DBpedia enthusiasts to discuss the state of Irish Linked Data.

The meeting started with two compelling keynotes by Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Dublin City University and Logainm.ie, and Sharon Flynn, NUI Galway and Wikimedia Ireland. Brian presented Logainm.ie, a data use case about placenames in Ireland with a special focus on linked Logainm and machine-readable data.

His insightful presentation was followed by Sharon Flynn talking about Wikimedia in Ireland and the challenges of “this monumental undertaking” with particular reference to the Wikimedia Community in Ireland.

For more details on the content of the presentations, follow the links to the slides.

Brian’s and Sharon’s slides

Showcase Session

Eoin McCuirc started the DBpedia Showcase Session “MY sweet LOD”, an insightful presentation on Linked Open Data in Ireland from the perspective of a statistics office.

Shortly after, Ronald Stamper, Chairman of Measur Ltd. elaborated on semantic normal form, ontologies and the perils of paradigm change.

Ben De Meester, from Ghent University, presented the first DBpedia Showcase about Declarative Data Transformation for Linked Data Generation.

Followed by another showcase by Alan Meehan, presenting the SUMMR Interlink Validation tool which validates Interlinks from a source dataset to multiple targets.

Closing the Showcase Session,  Frederico Araujo Durao, Insight Centre for Data Analytics – University College Cork (UCC), presented a demo of his linked data browser.

For further details of the presentations follow the links to the slides.

• Eoin McCuirc –  My Sweet LOD
• Ronald  Stamper – The Perils of Paradigm Change
• Ben De Meester – Declarative Data Transformation ..[..]
• Alan Mehan  – Validating Interlinks with the SUMMR Interlink Validation Tool
• Frederico Araujo Durao:  – Linked Data Browser

Parallel sessions

As a regular part of the DBpedia Community Meeting we have two parallel sessions in the afternoon where DBpedia newbies can learn about what DBpedia is and how to use the DBpedia data sets.

Participants who wanted to learn DBpedia basics joined the DBpedia Tutorial Session by Markus Freudenberg (DBpedia Release Manager). The DBpedia Association Hour provided a platform for the community to discuss and give feedback.

Additionally, Sebastian Hellmann and Julia Holze, members of the DBpedia Association, updated the participants about the growing number of the DBpedia Association members, the formalized DBpedia language chapters, the established DBpedia Community Committee and they informed about technical developments such as the DBpedia API.

Ontology Engineering and Software Alignment in the ALIGNED Project

The afternoon session started with the DBpedia 2016-10 release update by Markus Freudenberg (DBpedia Release Manager). Following this, Kevin Chekov Feeney, (Trinity College Dublin) presented the software alignment in the ALIGNED project. He talked about “Generating correct-by-construction semantic datasets from unstructured, semi-structured and badly structured data sources”.

At this point, we also like to thank the ALIGNED project for the development of DBpedia as a project use case and for covering parts of the travel cost.

Session about Irish Linked Data Projects

Chaired by Rob Brennan and Bianca Pereira, the speakers in the last session presented new Irish Linked Data Projects, for example GeoHive, BIOOPENER and the TCD Open Linked Data Engagement Fund Project. The following panel session gave DBpedia and Linked Data enthusiasts a platform for exchange and discussion. Outcome of this session was the creation of a roadmap for the Irish Linked Data with all participants.     

Following, you find a list of all presentations of this session:

• Alan Meehan – GeoHive: Irish Geospatial Linked Data from Ordnance Survey Ireland
• Rob Brennan – TCD Open Linked Data Enagement Fund Project – Enhancing data.gov.ie Linked Data
• Ratnesh Sahay – BIOOPENER: Linking & Querying Cancer Genomics Repositories
• Rob Brennan, Bianca Perera & Eoin McCuirc –  The State of the Irish Linked Data

Closing this session John McCrae announced that the next edition of the Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK) Conference is scheduled for 2019 in Germany. We at the DBpedia Association are now looking forward to welcome the LDK Community in Leipzig!

Social Evening Event

The Community Meeting slowly came to an end with our social evening event, which was held at the PorterShed in Galway. The evening session revolved around the topic How to exploit data commercially? and featured two short impulse talks. Paul Buitelaar started the session by presenting “Kibi”, which is an Open Source platform for Data Intelligence based on the search engine Elasticsearch. Finally, Sebastian Hellmann talked about “Improving the Utility of DBpedia by co-designing a public and commercial DBpedia API” (slides).

Summing up, the 9th DBpedia Community Meeting brought together more than 45 DBpedia enthusiasts from Ireland and Europe who engaged in vital discussions about Linked Data, DBpedia use cases and services.

You can find feedback about the event on Twitter via  #DBpediaGalway17.

We would like to thank Bianca Pereira and Caoilfhionn Lane from Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, as well Rob Brennan from ADAPT Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin, for devoting their time to curating the program organizing the meeting.

Special thanks go to LDK 2017 for hosting the meeting.

Thanks Ireland and hello Amsterdam!

We are looking forward to the next DBpedia Community Meeting which will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Co-located with the SEMANTiCS17, the Community will get together on the 14th of September on the DBpedia Day.

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Only few seats are left: So come and get your ticket to be part of the 9th DBpedia Community meeting in Galway.

Highlights

• Keynote #1: Logainm.ie data use cases by Brian Ó Raghallaigh (Dublin City University & Logainm)
• Keynote #2: Wikimedia in Ireland: A Monumental Undertaking by Sharon Flynn (NUI Galway & Wikimedia Ireland)
• DBpedia Association hour
• A session about Irish Linked data projects (and DBpedia)

Quick Facts

• Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Galway2017
• Hashtag: #DBpediaGalway17
• When: June 21st, 2017
• Where: National University of Ireland, Galway (at the Millenium Arts Building Saint Josephs, Lower Newcastle Lower Newcastle, Galway, H91 PH2P, Ireland)
• Call for Contribution: Submit your proposal in our form
• Registration: Free to participate but only through registration (Option for DBpedia support tickets) https://goo.gl/FFQDow

Schedule

Please check our schedule for the 9th DBpedia Community meeting here: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Galway2017

Evening Event

The social event will be held in the evening (starting at 6pm) at the PorterShed around the topic How to exploit data commercially? featuring several short impulse talks. We still have some remaining slots and would welcome you to present your success stories as well as use cases, but also tell us about your problems regarding the commercialisation of data. If you are interested in presenting, please email dbpedia@infai.org.

Sponsors and Acknowledgments

In case you want to sponsor the 9th DBpedia Community Meeting, please contact the DBpedia Association via dbpedia@infai.org.

Organisation

• Tatiana Gornostay, TILDE
• Rob Brennan, ADAPT research centre
• Felix Sasaki, DFKI GmbH
• Bianca Pereira, The Insight Centre for Data Analytics
• Caoilfhionn Lane, The Insight Centre for Data Analytics
• Jimmy O’Regan, ITUT, Trinity College Dublin
• Julia Holze, DBpedia Association
• Sandra Prätor, DBpedia Association
• Sebastian Hellmann, DBpedia Association and AKSW, Uni Leipzig

We are looking forward to meeting you in Galway!

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*Quick facts*

• Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Poznan2016
• Hashtag: #DBpediaPL
• When: November 22nd, 2016
• Where: Towarowa 55, 61-875 Poznań, Poland
• Host: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Poznaniu, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Registration: through eventbrite

The schedule for the DBpedia meetup in Poznan is included in the eventbrite page.

Get your ticket here and be part of this event.

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