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Call for Participants: DBpedia Autumn Hackathon

by Julia Holze, in Events

Summary

Dear DBpedians, Linked Data savvies and Ontologists,

We would like to invite you to join the DBpedia Autumn Hackathon 2020 as a new format to contribute to DBpedia, gain fame, win small prizes and experience the latest technology provided by DBpedia Association members. 
The hackathon is part of the Knowledge Graphs in Action conference on October 6, 2020. 

Timeline 

  • Registration of participants – main communication channel will be the #hackathon channel in DBpedia Slack (sign up, then add yourself to the channel). If you wish to receive a reminder email on Sep 21st, 2020 you can leave your email address in this form.
  • Until September 14th – preparation phase, participating organizations prepare details and track formation. Additional tracks can be proposed, please contact dbpedia-events@infai.org.
  • Announcement of details for each track, including prizes, participating data, demos as well as tools and tasks. Please check updates on the Hackathon website. – September 21st, 2020
  • Hacking period, coordinated via DBpedia slack – September 21st to October 1st, 2020
  • Submission of hacking result (3 min video and 2-3 paragraph summary with links, if not stated otherwise in the track) – October 1st, 2020 at 23:59 Hawaii Time
  • Final Event, Each track chair will present a short recap of the track and announces prizes or summarizes the result of hacking. – October 5th, 2020 at 16:00 CEST
  • Knowledge Graphs in Action Event (see program) – October 6th, 2020 at 9:50 – 15:30 CEST
  • Results and videos are documented on the DBpedia Website and the DBpedia Youtube channel.
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Member Tracks 

The member tracks are hosted by DBpedia Association members, who are technology leaders in the area of Knowledge Engineering. Additional tracks can be proposed until Sep 14th, please contact dbpedia-events@infai.org.

  • timbr SQL Knowledge Graph: Learn how to model, map and query ontologies in timbr and then model an ontology of GDELT, map it to the GDELT database, and answer a number of questions that currently are quite impossible to get from the BigQuery GDELT database. Cash prizes planned. 
  • GNOSS Knowledge Graph Builder: Give meaning to your organisation’s documents and data with a Knowledge Graph. 
  • ImageSnippets: Labeling images with semantic descriptions. Use DBpedia spotlight and an entity matching lookup to select DBpedia terms to describe images. Then explore the resulting dataset through searches over inference graphs and explore the ImageSnippets dataset through our SPARQL endpoint. Prizes planned. 
  • Diffbot: Build Your Own Knowledge Graph! Use the Natural Language API to extract triples from natural language text and expand these triples with data from the Diffbot Knowledge Graph (10+ billion entities, 1+ trillion facts). Check out the demo. All participants will receive access to the Diffbot KG and tools for (non-commercial) research for one year ($10,000 value).

Dutch National Knowledge Graph Track

Following the DBpedia FlexiFusion approach, we are currently flexi-fusing a huge, dbpedia-style knowledge graph that will connect many Linked Data sources and data silos relevant to the country of the Netherlands. We hope that this will eventually crystallize a well-connected sub-community linked open data (LOD) cloud in the same manner as DBpedia crystallized the original LOD cloud with some improvements (you could call it LOD Mark II). Data and hackathon details will be announced on 21st of September.

Organising committee:

Improve DBpedia Track

A community track, where everybody can participate and contribute in improving existing DBpedia components, in particular the extraction framework, the mappings, the ontology, data quality test cases, new extractors, links and other extensions. Best individual contributions will be acknowledged on the DBpedia website by anointing the WebID/Foaf profile.

(chaired by Milan Dojchinovski and Marvin Hofer from the DBpedia Association & InfAI and the DBpedia Hacking Committee, please message @m1ci to volunteer to the hacking committee)

DBpedia Open Innovation Track 

(not part of the hackathon, pre-announcement)

For the DBpedia Spring Event 2021, we are planning an Open Innovation Track, where DBpedians can showcase their applications. This endeavour will not be part of the hackathon as we are looking for significant showcases with development effort of months & years built on the core infrastructure of DBpedia such as the SPARQL endpoint, the data, lookup, spotlight, DBpedia Live, etc. Details will be announced during the Hackathon Final Event on October 5.  

(chaired by Heiko Paulheim et al.)

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The DBpedia Organizing Team