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DBpedia Knowledge Engineering PhD Symposium

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:28:54 +0000

About the DBpedia Knowledge Engineering PhD Symposium

We are creating a meeting place and scientific network around DBpedia for scientific exchange – the DBpedia Knowledge Engineering PhD Symposium – where junior and senior researchers can establish relations and collaborations and exchange ideas and knowledge. Thus, we aim to manifest a scientific community as a driver for DBpedia and Linked Data and expect synergies and network effects that will greatly improve scientific output by the involved community members. The DBpedia Knowledge Engineering PhD Symposium will be held on the third day of the week-long Data Week Leipzig 2022 event (July 4-8, 2022).

The Format

The DBpedia Knowledge Engineering PhD Symposium consists of the following highlights:

A senior researcher starts the symposium by giving insights into their experience on “what makes a good PhD”.
Several PhD students will present their thesis and topics. On the one hand, they will receive feedback and on the other hand, the symposium participants will gain insight 1) on how they structure and define their PhDs, 2) on what the current trends are and 3) on potential connecting A dedicated poster session where all PhD participants can bring their poster and discuss with the audience during the coffee breaks. Please contact the organizers if interested in presenting a poster!
A community session, where we discuss how to organize the research network around DBpedia.
In the afternoon we will walk through the city center of Leipzig and also visit the LivingLab at the University of Leipzig. In the evening we will meet in a nearby pub and discuss the PhD topics of the day.

Submission of presentations

We are looking for presentations within the broader scope of the knowledge engineering field. From knowledge extraction, integration and curation, to knowledge publishing, quality assurance and knowledge exploitation in AI solutions. Each PhD presenter will receive a 30 minutes slot which includes 20 minutes for presentation of the research topic and 10 minutes for questions, feedback and discussion.

The aim of the DBpedia Knowledge Engineering PhD Symposium is to provide an opportunity to PhD students to present their PhD-related work-in-progress and receive feedback on their current work. In an open, supportive and non-confrontational environment the students will present their thesis in relation to the state-of-the-art, the identified gaps, addressed challenges, considered methods for exploitation, datasets for validation, and the overall evaluation approach. The colloquium will help PhD students to strengthen and shape their work as they progress towards their PhD degree. Moreover, the colloquium is a great opportunity to build a network of peers for their future career. The ultimate objective of the colloquium is to promote excellence in PhD research in the knowledge engineering field.

Confirmed list of mentors

Maribel Acosta, RUB
Thomas Riechert, HTWK
Sahar Vahdati, InfAI
Maria-Esther Vidal, TIB

Program

All times are in CEST.

8:45 – 9:00	Meet and greet
9:00 – 9:30	Opening and Invited talk by Sören Auer (TIB) (slides)
9:30 – 10:00	Multilingual Accessibility of Knowledge Graph Question Answering Systems by Aleksandr Perevalov, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences (slides)
10:00 – 10:30	Towards FAIR Linked Data Integration by Johannes Frey, InfAI, Leipzig University (slides)
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break & Poster Session
11:00 – 11:30	Towards Incremental Knowledge Graph Construction: Reusability and Reproducibility Issues by Marvin Hofer, ScaDS.AI, Leipzig University (slides)
11:30 – 12:00	Bringing Research Artifacts (as closer) Together: Knowledge Graphs for Libraries by Fidan Limani, ZBW – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft (slides)
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch
13:00 – 13:30	Machine Learning on Semantic Scientific Knowledge by Gollam Rabby, Prague University of Economics and Business (slides)
13:30 – 14:00	Distributed Approaches for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning on Geospatial Data by Mehdi Azarafza, InfAI (slides)
14:00 – 14:15	Representation and Reinforcement Learning on Knowledge Graphs by Mirza Mohtashim Alam, Smart Data Analytics/Uni Bonn
14:15 – 14:30	Unsupervised Information Extraction from Academic Data Sources to Knowledge Graphs by Paulo Ricardo Viviurka do Carmo, ex-HTWK Leipzig/InfAI
14:30 – 15:00	Closing Session by Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW, DBpedia Association and Milan Dojchinovski, DBpedia Association/CTU in Prague
15:00 – 15:45	Coffee Break & Poster Session
15:45 – 16:30	City walking tour
16:30	LivingLab tour
18:00+	Informal meeting in a nearby pub PETER PANE Address: Katharinenstraße 12, 04109 Leipzig

Deadline for PhD presentations

submission: May 29, 2022
notification: June 3, 2022

How to apply and join

To apply for a PhD presentation please fill-in the provided form (extended abstracts of ~ 500 words / 1 page).

How to register

The symposium will be organized as an on-site event where you need to register and buy at least a single day Data Week ticket (Tickets will be available from mid-May.). All symposium participants will be invited to an informal meeting in the evening, where the PhD student can discuss their current results and future plans with professors and experts from the knowledge engineering field.

Organisation Committee

Milan Dojchinovski, DBpedia Association / Czech Technical University in Prague
Julia Holze, DBpedia Association
Sebastian Hellmann, DBpedia Association

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DBpedia Day @ Semantics 2021

Fri, 04 Jun 2021 08:15:29 +0000

Quick Facts

Web URL: https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/
Hashtag: #DBpediaDay
Conference and sessions: September 9, 2021
Where: Meervaart Theatre, Meer en vaart 300, 1068 LE, Amsterdam AND online
Registration: via Semantics website

This year we are partnering again with the SEMANTiCS, an established knowledge hub which brings together technology professionals, industry experts, and researchers to exchange knowledge regarding new technologies, innovations, and enterprise implementations in the fields of Linked Data and Semantic AI. The DBpedia Day is part of the conference and will be held on the last day of SEMANTiCS 2021 on the 9th of September in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Keynote

“Enhancing Linked Data Trustability and Transparency through Knowledge-driven Data Ecosystems” by Maria-Esther Vidal, TIB & L3S Research Center (abstract)

Registration / Tickets

To attend the conference you have to book your ticket here. You can switch between online or onsite tickets at any time.

Please get in touch with us if you have any problems during the registration stage.

Speaker Guide

Please find the guide for speakers here: https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/how-hybrid-guide-your-hybrid-participation

Acknowledgements

	SEMANTiCS 2021 for having the DBpedia Day as part of the conference.
	Institute for Applied Informatics for supporting the DBpedia Association.
	OpenLink Software for continuous hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint.

Organisation

Enno Meijers, National Library of the Netherlands & Dutch DBpedia
Julia Holze, InfAI, DBpedia Association
Milan Dojchinovski, InfAI, DBpedia Association, CTU
Sebastian Hellmann, InfAI, DBpedia Association

Program

Please open the links to the presentation slides in a new browser window.

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1st DBpedia Community Meeting – Amsterdam 2014

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:54:00 +0000

Basic Plans

Twitter : #DBpediaAmsterdam

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. The meeting will be held at VU Amsterdam on Jan 30th and is co-located with the PiLOD 2.0 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 briefly present their use cases for DBpedia and give input on how we can improve DBpedia for users. Free slots still available, apply here.

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.

About DBpedia

(Source: Semantic Web Journal article)
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 since attracted large interest in research and practice. 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, and 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 in sponsoring this meeting, please email our sponsorship chair to request more information.

Participants can apply for a travel grant by filling out a form or emailing Sebastian (who will fill out the same form on your behalf 😉 ). Assuming we acquire a sponsor, these grants will be awarded depending on community activity (i.e., Google Summer of Code participation, Git Commits to DBpedia framework, activity on the mailing lists, etc.) and standing.

Quick Facts

Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014
When: January 30th, 2014
Where: VU Amsterdam, Netherlands ( behind the high main building, nr 6 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 below
Co-located with the ~PiLOD 2.0 meeting on January 29th, 2014

Acknowledgements

	We would especially like to thank Bibliotheek.nl – Public Libraries of the Netherlands for supporting the Dutch DBpedia Chapter.
	Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National library of the Netherlands for supporting the Dutch DBpedia Chapter and providing coffee, lunch, and drinks for the meeting.
	Semantic Web Company for providing coffee, lunch, and drinks for the meeting
	Institute for Applied Informatics
	VU Amsterdam kindly provided the facilities for the meeting, with special thanks to Lora Aroyo from BiographyNet
	OpenLink Software for continuous hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint

Organisation

Gerard Kuys, Dutch DBpedia
Gerald Wildenbeest, Dutch DBpedia
Lora Aroyo, VU Amsterdam
Victor de Boar, VU Amsterdam
Mariano Rico, Spanish DBpedia, OEG, UPM Madrid
Dimitris Kontokostas, Dutch and Greece DBpedia, AKSW, Uni Leipzig
Sebastian Hellmann, DBpedia, AKSW, Uni Leipzig

Participants and Registration

You can register by adding yourself here or send an email to one of the organizers. Registration is free.
See all the people attending the meeting. If you can’t find your name in there you can add it here, and it will show up after a while (30 min or more).

Location / Venue

The meeting will be held in the VU Amsterdam University in Netherlands.
We will use the Medical Faculty building ( behind the high main building, nr 6 on the map ) and the following rooms: MF-G613, MF-A311, MF-A301, MD-B034

Schedule

8:30	Registration in front of MF-G613
9:00	Session 1 DBpedia State of Play, Room: MF-G613 Session 1 Notepad
	Welcome by Enno Meijers from the Dutch DBpedia Chapter (see video)
	From a Hosted Data Set to a Public Data Infrastructure for the Web of Data, Sebastian Hellmann (see video), more information on the talk about the DBpedia Data stack
	DBpedia Internationalisation (PDF), Dimitris Kontokostas, The current state of the DBpedia internationalization effort, local DBpedia chapters and future challenges (see video)
	DBpedia hosting & usage statistics by Patrick van Kleef from OpenLink Software (see video)
	Wikidata and DBpedia, Gerard Meijssen from Wikidata. So far Wikidata and DBpedia have been rather stand offish, even though they have so much in common. What I want to do is present the current state of Wikidata and indicate its challenges. Many of these challenges have been met by DBpedia. I want to discuss how the two projects can mutually benefit from their activities. (see video)
	DBpedia Spotlight: Overview and Challenges (PDF), Joachim Daiber (see video)
	DBpedia-based applications developed from the DBpedia Greek chapter, Charalampos Bratsas, from the Greek DBpedia and OKF Greece (see video)
	Bridging the Gap between DBpedia and Natural Language, Christina Unger from CITEC – Lately we released the first version of a lexicon that captures linguistically rich information about verbalizations of 354 DBpedia classes and the 300 most frequent DBpedia properties in English (soon also Spanish and German). Such a lexicon can prove useful for a wide range of NLP applications over DBpedia. However, in order to keep the construction, extension and maintenance of such a multilingual lexicon feasible, it is necessary to include the DBpedia community in crowd-sourcing lexicalizations. We would like to discuss ways to do this and show possible benefits. (see video)
11:00	Coffee in front of MF-G613
11:30	Session 2 Use Cases for DBpedia, companies/developers, lightning talks, Room: MF-G613 Session 2 Notepad
	Using DBpedia for work on enterprise taxonomies and Linked Open Data (LOD) integration at Semantic Web Company, Martin Kaltenböck, Semantic Web Company will explain how the Austrian-based IT vendor for semantic information management Semantic Web Company (SWC) uses DBpedia for A) the work (creation, linking, and optimisation) on enterprise taxonomies with their core product PoolParty Semantic Suite and the SKOSsy service as well as B) how SWC uses DBpedia in several real world scenarios in the area of Linked Open Data (LOD) integration (entity linking, geo-tagging, et al). He will explain underlying mechanisms as well as show real world examples / use cases of SWC / PoolParty customers. (see video)
	Metadata Vocabularies and Cultural Heritage. Reconciling static and dynamic views (slides), Gerard Kuys, Dutch DBpedia and Ordina (see video)
	Datao – LinkedData at your fingertips NOW! by Oliver Rossel of http://datao.net/. Datao is a simple tool for LinkedData exploration and curation. Its user interface helps design and run SPARQL queries graphically. Find an endpoint, explore its data model, drag n drop data model elements to build a SPARQL query, click run and browse results as spreadsheet, map or form. Datao also manages a query repository, organized by categories (going from Travels to Education to Space to Libraries, etc). (see video)
	Digital Hermeneutics: From Information Delivery to Information Support by Lora Aroyo from VU Amsterdam (see video)
	Automatically Building Huge Gazetteers, Marco Fossati, SpazioDati. Lightning talk + company use case describing how to create linguistic resources with simple queries to DBpedia (see video)
	DBpedia based Movie Recommendations (industry project for cENTERTAIN.me by Harald Sack from Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Discussion the problems: timeliness of results, mapping among different language versions of DBpedia, reliable Linking to other LOD resources) (see video)
	German Government funded Project ‘D-Werft’ (Digital Dockyard) for Semantic Data Integration in the Media Production Value Chain by Harald Sack from Hasso-Plattner-Institut about applying DBpedia as data reference hub, uses DBpedia for Named Entity Disambiguation) (see video)
	Presentation about industrial use cases using DBpedia Deutsch, Adrian Paschke, Alexandru Todor (see video)
13:00	Lunch in front of room MF-A311 and MF-A301
14:00	Break-Out Sessions (BOS)
	BOS 1 Room: MF-A311 BOS1 Notepad Exploring the connection of DBpedia to Library and Cultural Heritage (Chairs: Gerard Kuys, Thomas Riechert, Antoine Isaac) Program has been moved to the interactive notepad: http://okfnpad.org/p/DBpediaAmsterdamBOS1
	BOS 2 Room: MF-A301 BOS2 Notepad Linking text to LOD entities (Chairs: Marieke van Erp, Victor de Boer, Agata Filipowska, Sebastian Hellmann) Program has been moved to the interactive notepad: http://okfnpad.org/p/DBpediaAmsterdamBOS2 (see video)
	BOS 3 Room: MF-B034 BOS3 Notepad What is wrong with DBpedia? Developers discussion on how to improve our baby – Presentations & Discussion (Chairs: Harald Sack, Marco Fossati, Mariano Rico) Program has been moved to the interactive notepad: http://okfnpad.org/p/DBpediaAmsterdamBOS3
15:30	Coffee in front of room MF-A311 and MF-A301
16:00	Parallel sessions for 90 min
	PS 1 Room: MF-A301 PS1 Notepad DBpedia tutorial (Sebastian Hellmann) This is a highly interactive tutorial, we will reply to your questions in the session or from the interactive notepad: http://okfnpad.org/p/DBpediaAmsterdamPS1 (see video)
	PS 2 Room: MF-B034 PS3 Notepad DBpedia I18N developers session – Presentations & Discussion (Chair: Mariano Rico, Dimitris Kontokostas, Marco Fossati, Magnus Knuth) Program has been moved to the interactive notepad: http://okfnpad.org/p/DBpediaAmsterdamPS2
	PS 3 Room: MF-A311 PS3 Notepad Local Dutch DBpedia Chapter Meeting (Chair: Enno Meijers, Gerard Kuys) Program has been moved to the interactive notepad: http://okfnpad.org/p/DBpediaAmsterdamPS3
	PS 4 possibility to continue break out sessions 😉
17:30	Closing Session in Room: MF-G613
18:00	Drinks, finally!

Co-located with the PiLOD 2.0 meeting

When: January 29th, 2014
Where: same location, different room

PiLOD (Platform implementatie Linked Open Data) organizes a meeting on the 29th of January. The program can be found on the main page at http://www.pilod.nl and further information is available here: [1] and [2] (in Dutch).

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2nd DBpedia Community Meeting – Leipzig 2014

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:41:17 +0000

Please note: the DBpedia meeting is at the center of the city. This is a different location than SEMANTiCS, which is in the north east of Leipzig

Twitter: #DBpediaLeipzig2014
Twitter: #DBpediaLeipzig

Content

Basic Plans
Quick Facts
Co-located with
- Gold Sponsors of SEMANTiCS
- Acknowledgements
Organisation
DBpedia Association Kick-Off Party
Registration
Call for Contribution
Location / Venue
Schedule

Basic Plans

After the huge success in Amsterdam in January with over 70 participants the next meeting will be held in Leipzig on September 3rd, 2014.

Quick Facts

Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2014
When: September 3rd, 2014
Where: Leipzig, Germany
Host: German DBpedia Chapter (http://de.dbpedia.org) and the Institute for Applied Informatics
Call for Contribution: Submission form
Registration: Free to participate but only through registration. Option to donate to DBpedia Association & extra ticket for the social event. See more details below.

Co-located with SEMANTiCS 2014, September 4-5 in Leipzig

Gold Sponsors of SEMANTiCS

become a Gold Sponsor of SEMANTiCS

Acknowledgements

If you would like to become a sponsor for the 2nd DBpedia Meeting, please contact the DBpedia Association

	Leipzig University
	AG Corporate Semantic Web Institute for Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin
	Internet Technologies and -Systems University of Potsdam Hasso-Plattner-Institut
	Institute for Applied Informatics
	Neofonie
	Yovisto Academic Video Search
	OpenLink Software for continuous hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint

Organisation

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Adrian Paschke, German DBpedia and AG Corporate Semantic Web, FU Berlin
Alexandru Todor, German DBpedia and AG Corporate Semantic Web, FU Berlin
Harald Sack, German DBpedia and Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam
Jörg Waitelonis, Yovisto
Heiko Ehrig, Research department at Neofonie
Magnus Knuth, German DBpedia and Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam
Dimitris Kontokostas, DBpedia Association and AKSW, Uni Leipzig
Sebastian Hellmann, DBpedia Association and AKSW, Uni Leipzig

DBpedia Association Kick-Off Party

After the day of talks, we would like to invite you to celebrate with us the foundation of the DBpedia Association.
The party will be co-located with the Welcome reception and the 1st Pan-European Semantic Web Meetup of the SEMANTiCS at the KUBUS Leipzig.
See http://www.semantics.cc/programme/ for details.

Registration

Important: Attending the DBpedia Community meeting is free, but you need to register
The DBpedia Association Party in the evening is a joint event with the LOD2 Final Event and the SEMANTiCS Welcome Reception and requires a ticket. The ticket costs either 75 Euro where in addition you get a DBpedia logo on your badge and a DBpedia pin to show your support, or 25 Euro for the event (with no logo and no pin). The ticket can be booked from the SEMANTiCS registration system.
The ticket for the SEMANTiCS main conference has to be booked separately.

Call for Contribution

Please submit your proposal through our web form.
Contribution proposals include (but not limited to) presentation, posters, demos, lightning talks and session suggestions.

Location / Venue

The meeting will take place at Felix-Klein-Hörsaal (5th floor), Paulinum, University of Leipzig in Leipzig (map link).

Schedule

9:00	Session 1 (Chair: Adrian Paschke) Session 1 Notepad
	Welcome by Sebastian Hellmann, Adrian Paschke and Harald Sack
	Keynote 1, by Sören Auer co-founder of DBpedia
	Keynote 2, by Sofia Angeletou Senior Data Architect for the BBC’s Linked Data Platform
	DBpedia 2014 Highlights by Volha Bryl, University of Mannheim
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Session 2 Use Cases for DBpedia, companies/developers, lightning talks (Chair: Harald Sack) Session 2 Notepad
	DBpedia High Availability and Low Server Usage with Linked Data Fragments by Ruben Verborgh, University of Gent
	Versioning DBpedia Live using Memento by Paul Meinhardt, Kerstin Günther, Magnus Knuth, HPI Potsdam
	Vincit: Querying DBpedia in a flexible and multilevel way by Karolina Stasiak, vsoft
	Data interlinking together with crowd workers by Cristina Sarasua, University of Koblenz
	Knowledge Summarization in DBpedia by Edgard Marx, AKSW Group
	Linked Data Harvester by Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company
	Product Information on Polish DBpedia by Krzysztof Wecel, Poznan University
	Evaluation Datasets for DBpedia-based entity linking, classification and salience computation algorithms by Milan Dojchinovski, Vaclav Zeman, Prague University of Economics
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Break-Out Sessions (BOS)
	BOS 1 DBpedia @ LOD (Chair: Dimitris Kontokostas) BOS 1 Notepad Wikimedia Commons Extraction by Dimitris Kontokostas, AKSW Entity Facts by Michael Büchner, Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek Multilingual indexing of videos of the TIB AV-Portal – Gaining an English indexing vocabulary by means of GND/DBpedia mapping by Dr. Sven Strobel, Technische Informationsbibliothek, Hannover Short presentations of the demos and posters (see posters and demos in the PS 2: Demo and Poster Session)
	BOS 2 DBpedia Roadmap Discussion on the next steps of the DBpedia project (Chair: Sebastian Hellmann) BOS 2 Notepad DBpedia Association Introduction by Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW DBpedia Live – Internationalization, Versioning, etc. by Magnus Knuth, HPI The DBpedia Communications Group by Martin Kaltenböck, Lieke Verhelst, Gerard Kuys, Dimitris Kontokostas DBPedia Funding Opportunities by Adrian Paschke, Freie Universität Berlin Discussion on Quality, Curation, & new Datasets
15:30	Coffee
16:00	Parallel Sessions (PS)
	PS 1 DBpedia Developers (Chair: Alexandru Todor) PS 1 Notepad Towards the Amharic DBpedia Chapter by Melkamu Beyene Ababu, Addis Ababa University Enriching Belarusian DBpedia by Krzysztof Wecel, Poznan University Dockerizing DBpedia by Alexandru Todor, FU Berlin MissingBot: semi-automatic DBpedia Mappings Editor by Alexandru Todor, FU Berlin Distributed extraction with Hadoop / Spark by Dimitris Kontokostas, AKSW Group Linked Hypernyms in DBpedia German by Milan Dojchinovski, Vaclav Zeman, and Alexandru Todor, Freie Universitaet Berlin and Prague University of Economics Wikidata Integration by Ali Ismaylov, University of Bonn Discussion on DBpedia development plans
	PS 2 Demo and Poster Session (Chair: Magnus Knuth) PS 2 Notepad CLOR poster and demo by Yontao Ma, AIFB Smart Media Navigator demo and poster by Jörg Waitelonis, Tabea Tietz, Harald Sack, yovisto GmbH Entityclassifier.eu: Real-Time Classification of Entities in Text with Wikipedia poster by Milan Dojchinovskiand Tomáš Kliegr Inconsistencies in DBpedia poster by Magnus Knuth, HPI Potsdam Linked Data Harvester demo and poster by Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company Vincit: Querying DBpedia in a flexible and multilevel way demo by Andrzej Martyna and Karolina Stasiak, vsoft Wordbol demo by Stefan Bunk, HPI DBpedia High Availability and Low Server Usage with Linked Data Fragments demo and poster by Ruben Verborgh, University of Gent
	PS 3 DataId Hackathon (Chair: Martin Brümmer) PS 3 Notepad this is where the DataId unit meets. We will give an introduction to DataId and then held you create your own, see: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/coop/DataIDUnit http://dataid.dbpedia.org/
17:30	Closing Words and Direction to the DBpedia Party

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3rd DBpedia Community Meeting in Dublin 2015

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:23:02 +0000

Twitter: #DBpediaDublin
Optional DBpedia support ticket: We additionally offer an optional DBpedia Support ticket https://event.gg/728
Slides Upload: http://tinyurl.com/dbp-slides

Content

Basic Plans
Quick Facts
- Acknowledgements
Organisation
Registration
Call for Contributions
Location / Venue
Schedule (Final)

Basic Plans

After the huge success in Leipzig in September with over 80 participants the next meeting will be held in Dublin on February 9th, 2015.

Quick Facts

Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Dublin2015
When: February 9th, 2015
Where: The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Host: Trinity College Dublin (https://www.tcd.ie) and the DBpedia Gaelic Chapter
Call for Contribution: Please submit your contribution (talk, presentation, poster, …) in this form
Registration: CLOSED on 6/2/2015. Free to participate but needs registration.
Optional DBpedia support ticket: We additionally offer an optional DBpedia Support ticket https://event.gg/728
People attending the meeting (After registration)

Acknowledgements

If you would like to become a sponsor for the 3rd DBpedia Meeting, please contact the DBpedia Association

	The Knowledge and Data Engineering Group, Trinity College Dublin
	FP7 CENDARI Project
	Trinity Long Room Hub
	H2020 ALIGNED Project
	ADAPT Centre
	Digital Repository of Ireland
	Institute for Applied Informatics
	SindiceTech for sponsoring part of the lunch
	OpenLink Software for continuous hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint

Organisation

Rob Brennan, ALIGNED Project, ADAPT Centre, KDEG, Trinity College Dublin
Jennifer Edmond, CENDARI Project, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
Kevin Feeney, ALIGNED Project, ADAPT Centre, KDEG, Trinity College Dublin
Sandra Collins, Digital Repository of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy
Dimitris Kontokostas, DBpedia Association and AKSW, Uni Leipzig
Sebastian Hellmann, DBpedia Association and AKSW, Uni Leipzig

Registration

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED
You can register by adding yourself here or send an email to one of the organizers. Registration is free but we offer an optional Support Ticket if you would like to support the DBpedia Association.

All attendants must register here (Please indicate if you have an “eduroam” account for arranging internet access)
Additionally you can optionally purchase a DBpedia Support ticket here
See all the people attending the meeting. If you can’t find your name in there you can add it https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XtgLLAekZfPTpEg0NB7pGUVaPUIQ8MobaRkK7aQmimY, and it will show up after a while (30 min or more).

Note that registration closes on 06/02/15

Call for Contribution

Please submit your proposal through our web form.
Contribution proposals include (but not limited to) presentation, posters, demos, lightning talks and session suggestions.

Location / Venue

The meeting will take place at the Trinity Long Room Hub (2nd floor), break-out sessions will also be in the O’Reilly Institute, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin.

Schedule (Final)

9:00	Registration venue: Trinity Long Room Hub
9:15	Session 1 Technical Directions & keynotes (Chair: Declan O’Sullivan) venue: Neil Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub
	Welcome by Declan O’Sullivan, ALIGNED Project and ADAPT TCD
	Combining Data and Software Engineering on the Web by Rob Brennan, ALIGNED Project and ADAPT TCD slides
	DBpedia Use Case in ALIGNED Project, by Dimitris Kontokostas, University of Lepizig slides
	DBpedia and Digital Humanities in the CENDARI Project, by Jennifer Edmond, Trinity Long Room Hub
10:00	Keynote DBpedia and Wolters Kluwer’s Linked Data Strategy, by Christian Dirschl, Chief Content Architect, Wolters Kluwer slides
10:30	Coffee venue: Ideas Space, Trinity Long Room Hub
11:00	Session 2 (Chair: Jennifer Edmond) venue: Neil Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub
	DBpedia Future Directions, by Sebastian Hellmann, DBpedia Association, University of Lepizig (15′) slides
	Leveraging Library Data, by Christoph Schmidt-Supprian, Trinity College Library (15′) slides
	DBpedia’s Triple Pattern Fragments, by Ruben Verborgh, Ghent University – iMinds, Belgium (15′) slides
	Remapping the DBpedia mappings (in RML), by Anastasia Dimou, Ghent University – iMinds, Belgium (10′)
	Populating DBpedia FR and using it for Extracting Information, by Julien Plu, Eurecom, France (10′) slides
	DBpedia in the Japanese LOD cloud, by Fumihiro Kato, ROIS, Tokyo, Japan (10′) slides
	Just before lunch: Freebase going private: effects on DBPedia?, by Giovanni Tummarello, Sindice, Ireland (8)
12:30	Lunch venue: Ideas Space, Trinity Long Room Hub
14:00	Break-Out Sessions (BOS) – Note that some BOS sessions are in Computer Science, the O’Reilly Building
	BOS 1 DBpedia Tools and Tutorials (Presenters: Markus Ackermann, Markus Freudenberg & Ali Ismayilov) slides venue: Small Conference Room, O’Reilly Building This session will focus on providing tutorial information for new DBpedia users and to highlight new tools available. Covered topics: Wikipedia content, characteristics, use-cases, limitations motivation of structured and linked representation of Wikipedia knowledge DBpedia architecture and ontology examples and demonstration of DBpedia usage Sample Wikidata extraction
	BOS 2 DBpedia as Gaeilge Chapter Meeting slides (Chairs: Caoilfhionn Lane and Bianca Pereira) venue: Seminar Room, Trinity Long Room Hub this is where the DBpedia as Gaeilge Chapter meets for the first time. It is planned to formalise this group and set an agenda for future work on the DBpedia as Gaeilge
	BOS 3 The new DBpedia Ontology – (Chairs: Dimitris Kontokostas) venue: Neil Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub DBpedia Ontology overview, by Gerard Kuys, Ordina, NL slides DBpedia Ontology and Extractor Problems, by Vladimir Alexiev, Ontotext slides MissingBot – A Batch Editing Tool For the DBpedia Mappings Wiki, by Alexandru Todor, FU Berlin – Corporate Semantic Web, Germany slides Integrating WebProtégé into the DBpedia Mappings Wiki, by Ralph Schäfermeier and Alexandru Todor, FU Berlin – Corporate Semantic Web, Germany slides Fitting data to schema, by Alberto Tonon, eXascale Infolab, Université de Fribourg Discussion on the new ontology editing workflow and future directions of the DBpedia ontology
	BOS 4 NLP & DBpedia (Chairs: Sebastian Hellmann) venue: Large Conference Room, O’Reilly Building From DBpedia & Wordnet hierarchies to LinkedIn & Twitter, by Aonghus McGovern, Trinity College, Dublin Pundit, a Web Annotation tool, by Giulio Andreini, NET7, Italy slides Type inferencing in DBpedia from free Text by Václav Zeman, UE, Prague, Czech Republic slides Using DBpedia for spotting and disambiguating entities, by Julien Plu, Eurecom, France slides
15:30	Coffee venue: O’Reilly Building Foyer
16:00	Parallel Sessions (PS) – Note that all PS are in Computer Science
	PS 1 DBpedia Developers (Chair: Alexandru Todor) venue: Large Conference Room, O’Reilly Building Discussion on DBpedia development plans DBpedia in Bulgarian by Vladimir Alexiev, Lead Data and Ontology Management, Ontotext Corp Mapping Wikidata to DBpedia by Ali Ismayilov, University of Bonn Like Discory Hub, Qakis and Corese, by Raphaël BOYER, WIMMICS, INRIA, France State of DBpédia fr, by Raphaël BOYER, WIMMICS, INRIA, France Further Talks to be announced
	PS 2 DBpedia and Digital Humanities (Chair: Kevin Feeney) venue: Room 1.07, Lloyd Building NB This session will only run from 1600 – 1700 (sharp) due to room availability restrictions This session invites talks from all organisations using DBpedia for digital humanites applications. Knowledge-driven Personalised Research Environments Owen Conlon, ADAPT Centre, Trinity College Dublin slides Interlinked Social Evolution Datasets, Z-Curve and Seshat Kevin Feeney, Seshat Project, Trinity College Dublin Building Historical Geographical Datasets with DBpedia Odhran Gavin, Seshat Project, Trinity College Dublin DRI, Linked Logainm and DBpedia Sandra Collins, Digital Repository of Ireland The Arabic Wikipedia Initiative Fatima Al Harbi, ADAPT, Trinity College Dublin
17:30	Closing Words venue: O’Reilly Building Foyer
18:00	Informal social gathering at Café en Seine, 40 Dawson Street, Dublin 2

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4th DBpedia Community Meeting in Poznan 2015

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:08:28 +0000

The 4th DBpedia community meeting will be held in Poznan, Poland, co-located with the 18th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2015).

Twitter: #DBpediaPoznan
Optional DBpedia support ticket: We additionally offer an optional DBpedia Support ticket: https://event.gg/1205-4th-dbpedia-meeting-poznan

Quick Facts

Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Poznan2015
When: June 25th, 2015 (Thursday)
Where: Poznan University of Economics (Al. Niepodleglosci 10, 61-875 Poznan, Google Maps)
Host: Poznan University of Economics (http://kie.ue.poznan.pl/en) and the DBpedia Polish Chapter
Call for Contribution: Please submit your contribution (talk, presentation, poster, …) in this form
Publications: for details please see below.
Registration: Free to participate but needs registration.
Optional DBpedia support ticket: We additionally offer an optional DBpedia Support ticket: https://event.gg/1205-4th-dbpedia-meeting-poznan
Notes: http://bit.ly/1LDUIR3 a

Acknowledgements

If you would like to become a sponsor for the 4th DBpedia Community Meeting, please contact the DBpedia Association.

	H2020 ALIGNED Project
	Institute for Applied Informatics
	OpenLink Software for continuous hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint

Organisation

Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics
Krzysztof Węcel, Poznan University of Economics
Adrian Paschke, DBpedia Germany, University of Berlin
Marta Bartkowiak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
Dimitris Kontokostas, DBpedia Association and AKSW, Uni Leipzig
Sebastian Hellmann, DBpedia Association and AKSW, Uni Leipzig

Registration

You can register by adding yourself here or send an email to one of the organizers. Please indicate if you have an “eduroam” account for arranging internet access. Registration is free but we offer an optional Support Ticket if you would like to support the DBpedia Association (https://event.gg/1205-4th-dbpedia-meeting-poznan).
Note that registration closes on 18/06/15.

Call for Contributions

Please submit your proposal through our Web form.
Contribution proposals include (but not limited to) presentation, posters, demos, lightning talks and session suggestions. Please note the publication opportunities.

Important information (Opportunity for publication)

As DBpedia Workshop is a regular conference workshop there is a possibility of having the publication included in the post-conference LNBIP Proceedings http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2015/proceedings/. A short or regular paper corresponding to the presentation at the DBpedia Workshop may be submitted after the conference. It will then be subject to the review by the DBpedia Programme Committee. If accepted, the author will have to register with a fee of 100 EUR to have the paper included in the volume (the rest of cost is covered by our sponsors). Moreover, if someone would like to stay for the whole BIS conference (three days), he is to pay (in case of publication) 250 EUR (or 320 EUR in case of very late registration). If someone would like to stay for the whole conference without the publication, he would have to cover the cost of catering (please contact Agata). The registration form for the conference may be found at: http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2015/registration/ (please do not use this form in case of attending only the DBpedia Workshop).

SUBMISSION: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dbpediabis2015

Location / Venue

The meeting will take place in the main building of Poznan University of Economics (Google Maps). Details on the room numbers will be provided soon.

Schedule

Thursday, June 25th, 2015

9:00	Keynote plenary session Dr. Harald Sack: The Journey is the Reward – Towards New Paradigms in Web Search Dimitris Kontokostas: The past, present & future of DBpedia
10:30	coffee break
10:45	DBpedia – session 1 (chair: Agata Filipowska) DBpedia 2015 Highlights by Markus Freudenberg, AKSW Recent Data Cleansing Approaches by Magnus Knuth, HPI Cutting Long Stories Short: Fact Extraction from Wikipedia by Marco Fossati, Spatiodati Modelling the quality of attributes in Wikipedia infoboxes by Krzysztof Węcel, Włodzimierz Lewoniewski, Poznan Uni.
12:15	lunch
13:30	DBpedia – session 2 (chair: Adrian Paschke) SPARQLoud – Towards Linked Data Update Notications by Dinesh Reddy, HPI Vincit by Andrzej Martyna, VSOFT SA RDF Live Browser Extension by Cássio Prazeres and André Carlomagno Rocha, Insight Center / ufba.br DBpedia Live subscriptions processing by Alexandru Todor, Freie Universität Berlin Modular Development of the DBpedia Ontology with Ontology Aspects and Web Protégé by Ralph Schaefermeier, Freie Universität Berlin Intelligent learning: enhancing MOOCs with DBpedia by Ali Siragedien, AliMethod.com Utilization of DBpedia for data processing in maritime domain by Jacek Małyszko, Poznan Uni.
15:00	coffee break
15:15	DBpedia – session 3 (chair: Krzysztof Węcel) DBpedia in the Art Market by Dominik Filipiak, Poznan Uni. DBpedia SameAs service by Ande Valdestilhas, AKSW The FREME Project and the role of DBpedia by Nilesh Chakraborty, AKSW Moving towards wisdom through the knowledge hierarchy with the aid of semantic tools by Paweł Kapłański, Cognitum Sp. DBpedia Interlink evolution by Alan Meehan, Trinity College (DBpedia Tutorial by Markus Freudenberg, AKSW) depends on audience interest
16:45	coffee break
17:00	DBpedia – session 4 (chair: Dimitris Kontokostas) DBpedia Dev Session
20:00	official dinner

Full BIS programme

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5th DBpedia Community in California 2015

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:01:18 +0000

After 4 successful meetings in Europe, we will cross the Atlantic for the next one: we are happy to announce that the 5th DBpedia meeting will be held at Stanford University, Palo Alto, on November 5th 2015.

Please read below on different ways you can participate. We are looking forward to meeting all the US-based DBpedia enthusiasts in person.

The event will feature talks from Yahoo!, IBM Watson, Blippar, Netflix and Stanford amongst others.

Quick facts

Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/California2015
Hashtag: #DBpediaCA
When: November 5th, 2015
Where: MSOB x303, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA (map
Host: Dumontier Lab, Stanford University
Call for Contribution: Submit your proposal in our form
Registration: https://event.gg/1742-5th-dbpedia-meeting-california (limited seats)

Acknowledgments

If you would like to become a sponsor for the 5th DBpedia Meeting, please contact the DBpedia Association

	Dumontier Laboratory for Biomedical Knowledge Discovery For hosting the meeting and helping with the organization
	Yahoo! For sponsoring the catering of the meeting
	Google Summer of Code 2015 Amazing program and the reason we are in US
	ALIGNED – Software and Data Engineering For funding the development of DBpedia as a project use-case and covering part of the travel cost
	Institute for Applied Informatics For supporting the DBpedia Association
	OpenLink Software For continuous hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint

Organisation

Michel Dumontier, Maastricht University
Pablo N. Mendes, IBM Watson Research
Marco Fossati, SpazioDati
Dimitris Kontokostas, DBpedia Association and AKSW, Uni Leipzig
Sebastian Hellmann, DBpedia Association and AKSW, Uni Leipzig

Registration

Attending the DBpedia Community meeting is free, but you need to register. There are 3 types of tickets that are booked separately:

Ticket for the main event (50 people)
Ticket for the pre-event (30 people)
Optional DBpedia support ticket

Call for Contribution

Please submit your proposal through our form. Contribution proposals include (but not limited to) presentation, demos, lightning talks and session suggestions. All talks are accepted by default and will be added to the program in batches.

Location / Venue

The meeting will take place at Palo Alto CA, Stanford University, MSOB x303 (map).

Parking info: There is a parking structure on Pasteur Dr. near the hospital as well as in L-17. Both are only 5 minutes away walking. The yellow [P] shows the area for paid public parking. see the Stanford transportation maps for details and especially the south-west map.

Pre-meeting: The Center for Clinical Sciences Research (CCSR) building is located at 261 Campus Drive, next to the Beckman Center. 4205 is on the fourth floor of the south CCSR building. (map, gmap)

Going from the pre-meeting to the main event: CCSR is a 7 min walk from Beckman to MSOB (https://goo.gl/maps/fAaTA7QaiZ52)

Schedule

16:00 pre-event meeting (room CCSR 4205)

Separate pre-meeting. Depending on the audience we can do hackathons, tutorials, QA sessions, etc (needs separate registration)

18:30 Main Event (Room MSOB x303)

18:30 – 19:00	Meet & Greet / Refreshments
19:00 – 19:15	Introductions (5”) DBpedia state of affairs (10”)
19:15 – 20:45	Invited talks (1.5h) Michel Dumontier, Stanford Anshu Jain, IBM Watson Nicolas Torzec, Yahoo! Yashar Mehdad, Yahoo! Labs Yves Raimond, Netflix Karthik Gomadam, Independent Joakim Soderberg, Blippar Alkis Simitsis, HP Labs
20:45 – 20:50	Break + Refreshments
20:50 – 21:45	5min lightning talks from the audience Scott MacLeod, World University and School Developing World University and School as a database Steven R. Loomis IBM Automatically extracted abbreviated data with DBpedia David Martin, Nuance Using DBpedia with Nuance Georgia Kourtika, HP Labs Meet and Greet

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6th DBpedia Community Meeting in The Hague 2016

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:54:37 +0000

Read the final report on our blog: 6th DBpedia Community Meeting in The Hague 2016

Following our successful meetings in Europe & US our next DBpedia meeting will be held at The Hague on February 12th (with welcome reception by TNO on 11th), hosted by the National Library of the Netherlands.

Quick facts

Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/TheHague2016
Hashtag: #DBpediaDenHaag
When: February 11th-12th, 2016
Where:
- February 11th: TNO – New Babylon, Anna van Buerenplein 1, 2595 DA The Hague, Netherlands (directions)
- February 12th: National Library of the Netherlands, Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, 2595 BE The Hague, Netherlands (directions)
Host: National Library of the Netherlands (http://www.kb.nl)
Call for Contribution: submission form
Registration: Free to participate but only through registration (Option for DBpedia support tickets)

Acknowledgments

If you would like to become a sponsor for the 6th DBpedia Meeting, please contact the DBpedia Association

	National Library of the Netherlands For hosting the meeting and helping with the organization
	ALIGNED – Software and Data Engineering For funding the development of DBpedia as a project use-case and covering part of the travel cost
	Institute for Applied Informatics For supporting the DBpedia Association
	OpenLink Software For continuous hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint
	SEMANTiCS 2016: 12-15 Sep in Leipzig For sponsoring part of the travel costs of DBpedia members
	TNO innovation for life For hosting the welcome reception on the 11th

Organisation

Enno Meijers, National Library of the Netherlands, Dutch DBpedia
Gerard Kuys, Ordina, Dutch DBpedia
Gerald Wildenbeest, Saxion, Dutch DBpedia
Richard Nagelmaeker, Dutch DBpedia
Monika Solanki, University of Oxford, DBpedia Ontology
Julia Holze, DBpedia Association
Sandra Praetor, DBpedia Association
Dimitris Kontokostas, AKSW/KILT, DBpedia Association
Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, DBpedia ASsociation

Registration

Attending the DBpedia Community meeting is free, but you need to register. You can optionally choose a DBpedia support ticket.

Call for Contribution

Please submit your proposal through our web form.
Contribution proposals include (but not limited to) presentation, posters, demos, lightning talks and session suggestions.

Location / Venue

The meeting will take place at Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, 2595 BE The Hague, Netherlands at the National Library of the Netherlands building. See here for detailed directions.

Getting to the meeting by plane, you can use the Schiphol or Rotterdam airpots. Dusseldorf could also be an option but needs a 2.5h train connection.

WiFi: free WiFi will provided by KB

Evening Event(s): We have a welcome reception on Thursday at TNO – New Babylon.

Speakers

Paul Groth, Disruptive Technology Director @ Elsevier Labs

Paul Groth holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southampton (2007) and has done research at the University of Southern California and the VU University Amsterdam. His research focuses on dealing with large amounts of diverse contextualized knowledge with a particular focus on the web and science applications. This includes research in data provenance, data science, data integration and knowledge sharing. Paul was co-chair of the W3C Provenance Working Group that created a standard for provenance interchange. He is co-author of Provenance: an Introduction to PROV; The Semantic Web Primer: 3rd Edition as well as numerous academic articles. Paul’s personal website is pgroth.com and he blogs about his research and technology on ThinkLinks.

Marco Brattinga and Arjen Santema, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster)

The Dutch Cadastre exploits several national key registers (cadastral registration, topographic map) and information nodes (addresses and buildings, real estate value, cables and pipelines, large scale topographic map). Marco Brattinga is principal consultant at Ordina. Arjen Santema works as consultant tactical information management and innovations at the Cadastre. They share the passion for semantics and practices for publishing data and metadata on the web. Together they developed a framework to describe the data and metadata in a registration in relation to a concept schema that describes what the registration is about and helps to understand this. By separating the concept schema from the data and metadata model they created a taxonomy with domain experts, that contains implementation independent definitions. On the other side they built a data model or an ontology for specific goals. They will present the ideas behind this framework and show some examples from the cadastral registration, the topographic map and the information node addresses and buildings.

Antoine Isaac and Hugo Manguinhas, Europeana

Antoine Isaac and Hugo Manguinhas are members of the R&D team at Europeana.eu, the platform for Europe’s digital cultural heritage from libraries, museums and archives. We facilitate, coordinate and promote technological innovation for data aggregation, enhancement and dissemination of digital cultural heritage data and its associated services within the Europeana network. Our activities focus notably on data exchange, data quality, multilingualism and search.

Marco de Niet, DEN Foundation

Marco de Niet is the director of the DEN Foundation, the Dutch knowledge centre for digital heritage. He is actively involved in both national and international networks that focus on innovation with cultural heritage assets, including the Europeana Members Council. He is advisor to the policy officers of the Dutch Ministry of Culture that are responsible for the digital heritage strategies on the national level. He is responsible for the ENUMERATE Framework (currently part of Europeana) used for measuring the progress of digitisation in Europe. He is a member of the Dutch Unesco Memory of the World Committee, a board member of the Dutch Museum Register and a member of the Council for Dutch Language and Literature, which enhances the collaboration between the Netherlands and Flanders. He has a background in cultural information science.

Schedule

The draft program is in the following table.

Thursday, 11. February: Welcome Reception with snacks and drinks at TNO – New Babylon

17:00	*Registration and gathering on the 10^th floor** * For security reasons at the TNO building in The Hague visitors have to register themselves at the reception desk with their ID or passport. Please make sure that you bring yours!
17:30	Introduction to DBpedia/DBpedia Association by Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT General introduction about TNO Data Science department by Jean-Louis-Roso Introduction about Platform Linked Data Netherlands (PiLOD) by Erwin Folmer
18:00-19:30	Social event and poster/demo reception with the following projects: The Smart Appliances REFerence ontology (SAREF) and Standardization in IoT Linked Data in Horticulture Semantic technologies in Logistics Semantic search in Image Retrieval Dark Web Smart reasoning for well being
Friday, 12. February:	DBpedia Community Meeting
10:00 – 10:30	Meet & Greet
10:30 – 12:00	Opening Session / chair: Gerard Kuys room: Auditorium (5) Opening by Menno Rasch, Director of KB operations (10+5) DBpedia Association Update by Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT – slides (10+2) Digital Heritage in the Netherlands by Marco de Niet, DEN Foundation: Because this is what DBpedia is about as far as Dutch cultural institutions are concerned: in order to create common reference points, a common information infrastructure for heritage information is needed. What is more, public institutions in the field of culture have a responsibility in upholding such an infrastructure. Since the ultimate measure of those institutions’ usefulness is in the ease with which a user of heritage information can find the answers to his or her questions, the requirement presents itself that cultural institutions cooperate ever more closely in order to be able to offer cultural information as a single, interlinked package. In the end, the cultural institutions will find the information on and from their collections to be tightly knit together with the public data as being published by Europeana and the Network Digital Heritage. The presentation is available here. (20+5) Keynote #1: by Marco Brattinga and Arjen Santema, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster): Marco Brattinga and Arjen Santema talking about the best pratices they developed for the Dutch Land Registry and Mapping Agency (Kadaster). Together they developed a framework to describe the data and metadata in a registration in relation to a concept schema that describes what the registration is about and helps to understand this. By separating the concept schema from the data and metadata model they created a taxonomy with domain experts, that contains implementation independent definitions. On the other side they built a data model or an ontology for specific goals. They will present the ideas behind this framework and show some examples from the cadastral registration, the topographic map and the information node addresses and buildings. (20+5) Keynote #2: by Paul Groth, Elsevier: Knowledge Graph Construction and the Role of DBPediaIn this talk, I want to present some of our recent work on Knowledge Graph construction and the role of DBPedia and other Wikipedia based knowledge in that work. I discuss how having a an updated publicly available knowledge graph is crucial in acting as a reference for constructing internal knowledge graphs. The presentation is available here. Introduction to the program by Gerard Kuys, Dutch DBpedia
12:00 – 12:45	Lunch Break
12:45 – 14:15	DBpedia Showcase session room: Auditorium (5) DBpedia+ Data Stack 2015-10 – Release by Markus Freudenberg, AKSW/KILT (15) Enriching Cultural Heritage Data with DBpedia by Antoine Isaac, Europeana: For Europeana, getting richer metadata is a priority. It improves access to the nearly 50 million cultural heritage objects, notably by enabling better multilingual retrieval and creating relations between objects. The Europeana Data Model (EDM) allows the ingestion of semantic and multilingual metadata. It notably supports the representation of contextual links to concepts described in third-party data sources such as DBpedia. These rich entities are either provided by data providers in their metadata or selected by Europeana using semantic automatic enrichment. To further enhance its data and improving documents retrieval across languages, Europeana is now working on a “semantic entity database”. DBpedia will be one of the source datasets used as an anchor for more domain specific vocabularies. Find the compelte presentation here. (10) DBpedia Wayback Machine by Patrik Schneider, Siemens and WU Wien: DBpedia is one of the biggest and most important focal point of the Linked Open Data movement. Despite its multiple services, it lacks a fine-grained wayback mechanism to retrieve historical versions of resources at a given timestamp in the past, thus preventing systems to work on the full history of RDF documents. In this talk, we present (a) the framework that serves this mechanism and is publicly offered through a Web UI and a RESTful API, following the Linked Open Data principles; and (b) the usage of the Wayback Machine in the CityDataPipline. Find the complete presentation here. (10) BlueSky – Knowledge Diviner – DBpedia demo by Richard Nagelmaeker: A new view on data interaction as a reference point for data-driven architecture. Find the complete presentation here. (5) GOOSE by Laura Daniele, TNO Find the complete presentation here. (5) DBlexipedia: A nucleus for a multilingual lexical Semantic Web by Christina Unger, CITEC: Natural language-based applications using DBpedia face the challenge that they require knowledge about how the ontology elements are verbalized in natural language. In order to provide such knowledge at the required scale and thereby leverage the use of DBpedia in different applications, we construct a lexicon for the DBpedia ontology by means of existing automatic methods for lexicon induction. It contains 11,998 lexical entries for 574 different properties in three languages: English, German, and Spanish. Just like DBpedia provides a hub for Semantic Web datasets, this lexicon can provide a hub for the lexical Semantic Web, an ecosystem in which lexical information are published, linked, and re-used across applications. Find the complete presentation here. (5) DBpedia Historic data by Raphael Boyer, DBpedia FR / INRIA Find the complete presentation here. (5) Using Elasticsearch + DBpedia to maintain a searchable database of global power plants. by Chris Davis: Many countries are undergoing an energy transition, although relevant data about their portfolio of power plants is often only found as a mix of official and crowdsourced data. To navigate this, we have set up an Elasticsearch instance containing this data (http://enipedia.tudelft.nl/Elasticsearch.html). To help synchronize the collection of the 4000+ Wikipedia articles on global power plants with their latest edits, we use a single SPARQL query to DBpedia that performs a category traversal to retrieve information on the latest revision IDs of the articles (https://github.com/cbdavis/wikipedia-power-plants). Find the complete presentation here. (5) Linked Data Reactor by Ali Khalili: The LD-R framework combines several state-of-the-art Web technologies to realize the vision of Linked Data components. LD-R is centered around Facebook’s ReactJS and Flux architecture for developing Web components with single directional data flow. LD-R offers the first Isomorphic Semantic Web application (i.e. using the same code for both client and server side) by dehydrating/rehydrating states between the client and server. (10) Using DBPedia in Europeana Food and Drink by Vladimir Alexiev / Ontotext: The Europeana Food and Drink project collects cultural heritage objects for and develops applications related to Food and Drink heritage. As part of the project, Ontotext developed a FD Classification based on Wikipedia/DBpedia Categories, a semantic enrichment service that annotates each CHO with FD Topics and Places, and a semantic application that implements hierarchical semantic facets and semantic search for these facets. We’ll also be packaging the enrichment as a service for others to use in a crowdsourced annotation application. We will explain how we used Categories to build a domain-specific gazetteer, used external datasets (eg UMBEL domains and DBTax types), correlated DBpedia places to Geonames to use the place hierarchy, and the workings of the semantic application. Find the complete presentation here. (5) FREME by Nilesh Chakraborty. Open Framework of e-Services for Multilingual and Semantic Enrichment of Digital Content. Find the complete presentation here. (5) Using DBpedia for improved Vaccine Information Systems by Monika Solanki, University of Oxford Find the complete presentation here.
14:15 – 14:30	Coffee break (15”)
14:30 – 15:45	PS1: DBpedia ontology / chair: Monika Solanki, University of Oxford Room: B DBpedia ontology survey results & discussion Agenda:1. Introduction to the DBpedia ontology 2. talks from people who are extensively and aggressively using the ontology: (7) WebProtégé demo & aspect oriented programmingby Ralph Schäfermeier & Alexandru Todor / FU Berlin, (5) classification ontology by Gerard Kuys / Ordina (5) DBpedia mappings quality problems, Vladimir Alexiev / Ontotext 3. DBpedia ontology survey results 4. Proposed plan to address action points from the survey results 5. Discussion PS2: DBpedia & Heritage: Challenges and opportunities of reference data for digital heritage / chair: Enno Meijers, Dutch DBpedia (Find the complete presentation here.) Room: Auditorium (15) Building an ecosystem of networked references by Hugo Manguinhas, Europeana: Over the past five years, the amount of contextual entities in Europeana’s metadata has grown considerably. These entities are provided as references as part of the metadata delivered by Europeana or selected by Europeana semantic automatic enrichment. Pursuing their efforts towards the creation of a semantic network around cultural heritage objects, Europeana and its partners providers and aggregators are investigating ways to better exchange vocabulary data and manage co-references/alignments between vocabularies. In this presentation we will explore the potential of tools such as OpenSkos and Cultuurlink for supporting the building of networked references. Find the complete presentation here. (15) RML – generating high quality Linked Data by Anastasia Dimou, iMinds: Despite the significant number of existing tools, incorporating data from multiple sources and different formats into the Linked Open Data cloud remains complicated. The RML tool chain developed by iMinds provides a generic solution, based on an extension over R2RML, for mapping data in a source-agnostic and extensible way, while facilitating the definition of mappings of multiple heterogeneous sources. Find the complete presentation here. (15) Histograph: geocoding places of the past by Joop Vanderheiden, RCE: Histograph: a historical geocoder for search and standardization of place names throughout history. Histograph collects and links place names and uses these to georeference and standardize place names in time; currently, sources used include birth places of Dutch East India Company crew members, monastry records and historical census data. Find the complete presentation here. (15) “Illegal newspapers in the WOII” Wikipedia/DBpedia project by Olaf Janssen, KB: Olaf Jansen, the wikipedian-in-residence at the KB works on describing nearly 1300 illegal newspapers printed in the WOII in the Dutch Wikipedia. The fulltext of the newspaper will be available at the Delpher service of the KB. The newspaper articles will be linked to relevant persons and places using the DBpedia. Find the complete presentation here.
15:45 – 16:00	Coffee break (15”)
16:00 – 17:15	BS1: DBpedia Dev session / chair: Dimitris Kontokostas Room: A Session for developers to talk about technical issues and challenges in DBpedia including: (5+5) Recent Quality improvements in DBpedia by Dimitris Kontokostas / AKSW/KILT (7+5) Mappings wiki with a Git-based approach by Alexandru Todor / FU Berlin Hosting DBpedia+ (how to contribute and interlink data) mini roadmap BS2: DBpedia Tutorial by Markus Freudenberg, AKSW/KILT Room: B a one hour tutorial about Linked Data and DBpedia The tutorial will start with an open talk to assess the level of the audience and then either start with a general introduction to Linked Data or go more into detail and provide an overview and tips and tricks on DBpedia components and what we can do with it. BS3: DBpedia & NLP (partially focused on Cultural Heritage) chair: Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT Room: Auditorium In this session we will investigate the application of Linked Data on Language Technologies, especially entity linking. The domain is focused partially on Digital Humanities (20) Results of the LIDER project by Christina Unger, CITEC: One of the outcomes of the LIDER support action are guidelines to facilitate the discovery, reuse and exploitation of existing linguistic resources, aiming at the establishment of a new Linked Open Data (LOD) based ecosystem of free, interlinked, and semantically interoperable language and media resources (corpora, dictionaries, lexical and syntactic metadata, images, etc.) for multilingual, cross-media content analytics. In order to show how these guidelines can be realized, I will showcase example services for discovering and querying relevant linguistic resources and for using and linking LOD-aware NLP services. The full presentation is available here. (20) TellMeFirst A Knowledge Domain Discovery Framework by Giuseppe Futia: TellMeFirst (TMF) is an open-source framework that leverages the DBpedia knowledge base and the Wikipedia corpus for classifying documents, achieved by computing a similarity score between the target document and an initial training set. Each DBpedia entity identifies a document of the training set that includes all Wikipedia paragraphs in which the entity appears as wikilink. The training set is composed by entities covered in DBpedia from different knowledge domains (such as Cultural Heritage, Politics, History, Science, Sport). Nevertheless, cultural institutes, companies, and public administrations are much more interested in a classification system that exploits only a subset of these entities, specific for their purposes and needs. During the talk, we will introduce both the transformation pipeline (based on DBpedia Spotlight project) for building a general-purpose training set and a configurable process for building a domain training set. Then, we will report on the differences between classification results obtained by evaluating TMF with the two training sets in an example scenario. The full presentation is available here. (20) Mapping the Bio-economy using DBpedia Spotlight by Chris Davis: A large variety of industrial processes use petroleum-derived feedstocks, and there is significant discussion about creating a bio-based economy which replaces these with more renewable resources. So what is the bio-economy and which feedstocks are people using, and for which purposes? To answer this, we collected 78,000 abstracts from journal articles, processed them using DBpedia Spotlight, and created matrices showing which organisms are co-mentioned in abstracts with particular technologies and applications. The full presentation is available here.
17:15 – 18:00	Closing session & networking
18:00 +	Continue networking in a near pub over beer

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7th DBpedia Community Meeting in Leipzig 2016

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:46:19 +0000

During the SEMANTiCS 2016 in Leipzig, Sep 12-15, the DBpedia community will get together on the 15th of September for the 7th edition of the DBpedia Community Meeting.

After years of discussion, the DBpedia community has finally found consensus on how to step into the future. During this meeting, we will come together to celebrate this achievement and also discuss and hold a vote to fill the DBpedia Association with life. Other subjects will reflect the efforts of the DBpedia community on a general Public Data Infrastructure for a large, multilingual, Semantic Knowledge Graph. In addition, there will be a showcase session on current developments and a DBpedia Dev session about technical issues and challenges in DBpedia as well as hands-on tutorials for DBpedia newbies.

Submission are open

Highlights include:

DBpedia Ontology Discussion: The DBpedia Ontology and current developments in ontology management will be adressed by special guest Monica Solanki from Oxford University, a leading expert in this field.
DBpedia & DBpedia+ Data Stack (v. 2016-04) release
DBpedia Spotlight session dedicated to setting an agenda for future sptlight development.
Discussion about fundraising and how funding is acquired by the DBpedia Community
A vote for the seats in the board of trustees
Tutorials to learn about DBpedia and its tools
Two keynotes that showcase the usefullness of DBpedia in real world appliactions.
Space for the community to show their tools and success in presentations and posters

The success of the last two community meetings in Palo Alto with approx. 100 attendees and in The Hague with 120 attendees and the increasing number of specific language chapters proves that the DBpedia community is constantly growing and gaining more and more significance and impact in the Semantic Web Community.

Quick facts

Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2016
Hashtag: #DBpediaLeipzig2016
When: September 15th, 2016
Where: University of Leipzig, Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig
Call for Contribution: submission form
Registration: Free to participate but only through registration (Option for DBpedia support tickets)

Main Conference

The DBpedia Meeting is part of the SEMANTiCS 2016 conference and will take part on the last day.

Acknowledgments

If you would like to become a sponsor for the 7th DBpedia Meeting, please contact the DBpedia Association

	University of Leipzig For hosting the meeting
	ALIGNED – Software and Data Engineering For funding the development of DBpedia as a project use-case and covering part of the travel cost
	Institute for Applied Informatics For supporting the DBpedia Association
	OpenLink Software For continuous hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint
	SEMANTiCS 2016: 12-15 Sep in Leipzig For hosting and sponsoring the meeting.

Organisation

Magnus Knuth, HPI, DBpedia German & Commons
Monika Solanki, University of Oxford, DBpedia Ontology
Julia Holze, DBpedia Association
Dimitris Kontokostas, AKSW/KILT, DBpedia Association
Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, DBpedia ASsociation

Registration

Attending the DBpedia Community meeting is free, but you need to register. You can optionally choose a DBpedia support ticket.

Call for Contribution

Please submit your proposal through our web form.
Contribution proposals include (but not limited to) presentation, posters, demos, lightning talks and session suggestions.

Location / Venue

The meeting will take place at Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig, Germany. See here for detailed directions.

Getting to the meeting by plane, you can use the airport Leipzig/Halle, it is about 30 minutes away (by car) from the city centre of Leipzig. InterCity and regional trains run regularly between airport and central station. The Berlin Airport is about 2 hours away, Airport Frankfurt or Airport Hanover are about 3.5 hours away by train. See here for detailed directions.

Read the final report of the 6th DBpedia community meeting in The Hague on our blog: 6th DBpedia Community Meeting in The Hague 2016

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8th DBpedia Community Meeting in California 2016

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:36:52 +0000

Very shortly after the largest DBpedia meeting to date we are crossing Atlantic for the second time. We are happy to announce that the 8th DBpedia meeting will be held in Sunnyvale on October 27th 2016, hosted by Yahoo.

The event will feature talks from Yahoo, IBM Watson, LinkedIn and Lattice amongst others. The topics will include knowledge graphs & machine learning, open data, open source and startups.

Please read below on different ways you can participate. We are looking forward to meeting again in person with the US-based DBpedia community.

Quick facts

Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/California2016
Hashtag: #DBpediaCA
When: October 27th, 2016
Where: Yahoo! Building E, 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA.
Host: Yahoo
Call for Contribution: Submit your proposal in our form
Registration: through eventbrite (limited seats)

Program

18:30 – 19:00	Meet & Greet / Refreshments
19:00 – 19:15	Introductions (5”), Pablo Mendes DBpedia state of affairs (10”), Dimitris Kontokostas (slides)
19:15 – 21:00	Invited talks (1h 45m) Nicolas Torzec, Yahoo! Knowledge Graph “Knowledge Base Completion from Web Tables” Daniel Gruhl, IBM Watson “Truth for the Impatient”. Qi He, LinkedIn “The LinkedIn Knowledge Graph” (slides) Pablo Mendes, Lattice Data Inc. “Strong NLP with Weak Supervision from DBpedia” Margaret Warren, Metadata Authoring Systems, LLC “ImageSnippets” Stas Malyshev, Wikimedia “Wikidata & Wikidata Query Service” (slides) Jans Aasman, Franz Inc “Data Exploration with Visual SPARQL Queries” Sujan Perera, Knoesis “Linking implicit entities with DBpedia” (slides) Wang-Chiew Tan, RIT “Enriching Lifestyles with Knowledge Graphs” Tatiana Libman, Google “The Google Knowledge Graph”
21:00 – 22:00	Networking + Refreshments
22:00+	Closing Time: “you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here”

Organisation

Nicolas Torzec, Yahoo Knowledge Graph.
Pablo N. Mendes, Lattice Data Inc.
Dimitris Kontokostas, DBpedia Association and AKSW, Uni Leipzig
Sebastian Hellmann, DBpedia Association and AKSW, Uni Leipzig

Registration

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

Call for Contribution

Please submit your proposal through our form. Contribution proposals may include (but are not limited to) presentations, demos, lightning talks, panels and session suggestions. We intend to accept as many proposals as possible in the available meeting time.