As many folks enjoy country rankings, I have generated a list of countries
(Property:P17) ranked by number of coordinates (P625) in Wikidata. Note
this data is from the September 22 database dump.
There are a total of 737,271 coordinates in Wikidata.
Top countries are....
1) US
2) Russia
3) UK
4) China
5) France
6) Ukraine
7) Canada
8) Germany
9) Australia
10) Poland
See the full list (which also has a few items entered for P17 that are not
really countries):
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Aude/countrystats
Cheers,
Katie (user:aude)
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Katie Filbert
filbertk(a)gmail.com
@filbertkm / @wikimediadc / @wikidata
Hi everyone,
Here's your summary of all the important things that happened around
Wikidata over the last week. This time including a bunch of very nice
new tools and the crossing of item ID 15000000.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_10_04
Please also note that this is the last weekly summary I will be
compiling. It is time to give this into the hands of a few capable
community members. If you're interested in doing that please let me
know and I'll get you up to speed.
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Obentrautstr. 72
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Congratulations Lydia. I think you will do a great job with this.
On your three areas we need to focus on I have some comments:
1. Building trust in our data. The project is still young and the
> Wikipedia editors and others are still wary of using data from
> Wikidata on a large scale. We need to build tools and processes to
> make our data more trustworthy.
> 2. Improving the user experience around Wikidata. Building Wikidata to
> the point where it is today was a tremendous technical task that we
> achieved in a rather short time. This though meant that in places the
> user experience has not gotten as much attention. We need to make the
> experience of using Wikidata smoother.
> 3. Making Wikidata easier to understand. Wikidata is a very geeky and
> technical project. However to be truly successful it will need to be
> easy to get the ideas behind it.
1. I think that if we have to wait till wikipedians trust our data before
they use it then we may never get there. Rather we need to make it easier
for wikipedians to edit our data than it is for them to edit a local
infobox so that wikipedians themselves can improve our data.
2. This means the emphasis is on improving the user experience around the
wikipedia interface to wikidata. When that is smooth enough then no one
will care that the edit interface on wikidata itself is a bit geeky.
3. If most people interact with wikidata via infoboxes on wikipedia and
Vcards on wikivoyage then wikidata becomes much easier to understand - at
least the bit of wikidata they interact with. Then users, for the most
part, don't need to 'get' the ideas behind the infobox.
>From this the priorities, as I see them, are:
A. Finish the remaining datatypes.
B. Develop and test model infoboxes on wikidata ready for wikiprojects in
any language to adopt and deploy. (To test these infoboxes we will need to
be able to enable wikidata as a wikibase client with a sitelink from every
item to its talk page so infoboxes on the talk page work like infoboxes on
any other sitelinked page.) Tweak the ontology as necessary to make the
infoboxes work.
C. Adapt the wikipedia infobox visual editor so it can edit as 2. above.
Deploy the revised visual editor on wikidata first so we can test it before
it goes live elsewhere.
This is just my opinion but I offer it as a conversation starter. Is my
list very different from yours?
Joe (filceolaire)
(crossposting from http://blog.wikimedia.de/?p=17250)
In early 2010 I met Denny and Markus for the first time in a small
room at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to talk about Semantic
MediaWiki, its development and its community. I was intrigued by the
idea they'd been pushing for since 2005 - bringing structured data to
Wikipedia. So when the time came to assemble the team for the
development of Wikidata and Denny approached me to do community
communications for it there was no way I could have said no. The
project sounded amazing and the timing was perfect since I was about
to finish my studies of computer science. In the one and a half years
since then we have achieved something amazing. We've built a great
technical base for Wikidata and much more importantly we've built an
amazing community around it. We've built the foundation for something
extraordinary. On a personal level I could never have dreamed where
this one meeting in a small room in Karlsruhe has taken me now.
>From now on I will be taking over product ownership of Wikidata as its
product manager.
Up until today we've built the foundation for something extraordinary.
But at the same time there are still a lot of things that need to be
worked on by all of us together. The areas that we need to focus on
now are:
* Building trust in our data. The project is still young and the
Wikipedia editors and others are still wary of using data from
Wikidata on a large scale. We need to build tools and processes to
make our data more trustworthy.
* Improving the user experience around Wikidata. Building Wikidata to
the point where it is today was a tremendous technical task that we
achieved in a rather short time. This though meant that in places the
user experience has not gotten as much attention. We need to make the
experience of using Wikidata smoother.
* Making Wikidata easier to understand. Wikidata is a very geeky and
technical project. However to be truly successful it will need to be
easy to get the ideas behind it.
These are crucial for Wikidata to have the impact we all want it to
have. And we will all need to work on those - both in the development
team and in the rest of the Wikidata community.
Let's make Wikidata a joy to use and get it used in places and ways we
can't even imagine yet.
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Obentrautstr. 72
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
** apologies for cross-posting **
==== Call for Papers ====
CFP: 11th ESWC Conference 2014
Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014
Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece
Hashtag: #eswc2014
Feed: @eswc_conf
Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org
General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT)
Program Chairs:
- Claudia d'Amato (Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' degli Studi di Bari, IT)
- Fabien Gandon (Wimmics, Inria, I3S, CNRS, Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, FR)
ESWC is a major venue for discussing the latest scientific results and technology innovations related to the Semantic Web. The 11th edition of ESWC will take place from May 25th, 2014 to May 29th, 2014 in Anissaras, Crete, Greece. Besides a main focus on advances in Semantic Web research and technologies, ESWC 2014 is seeking to broaden its attention to span other relevant research areas in which Web semantics plays an important role.
The goal of the Semantic Web is to create a Web of knowledge and services in which the semantics of content is made explicit and content is linked to both other content and services. This arrangement of knowledge-based functionalities is weaving together a large network of human knowledge, and making this knowledge machine-processable to support intelligent behaviour by machines. Additionally, it supports novel applications allowing content from heterogeneous sources to be combined in unforeseen ways and support enhanced matching between users needs, software functionalities and online content.
Creating such an interlinked Web of knowledge which bridges between heterogeneous content and services requires collaboration between several computer science domains. Also, within this hybrid space that the Web has become, where humans and software interact in a complex manner, fundamentally requires an inter-disciplinary approach to find novel solutions to the problems generated.
ESWC 2014 will feature twelve thematic research tracks (see below) and an in-use and industrial track. Submissions of interdisciplinary research papers, covering more than one thematic track, are also encouraged. In addition, the in-use and industrial track will provide an opportunity for dialogue and discussion on industrial applications, tools, deployment experiences, case studies and usage analysis.
Submitted papers should describe original work, present significant results, and provide rigorous, principled, and repeatable evaluation. We strongly encourage and appreciate the submission of papers incorporating links to data sets and other material used for evaluation as well as to live demos and software source code.
We therefore encourage submissions addressing several conference research topics. However, each paper should be associated with at least one of the topics of the conference. The main research topics this year are:
Vocabularies, Schemas, Ontologies;
Reasoning;
Linked Open Data;
Social Web;
Web Science;
Data Management, Big data, Scalability;
Natural Language Processing;
Information Retrieval;
Machine Learning;
Mobile Web;
Sensors;
Streams;
Services, processes, and cloud computing.
Additional special research topics this year are:
Cognition and Semantic Web;
Policies, Rights, Governance;
Semantic multimedia web.
*Important Dates*
Abstract submission Wednesday 8th January 2014
Full-paper submission Monday 13th January 2014
Authors' Rebuttals Wednesday 19th-Friday 21 Feb 2014
Acceptance notifications Wednesday 26 February 2014
Camera-ready papers Monday 10th of March 2014
*Submission Information*
ESWC2014 welcomes the submission of original research and application papers dealing with all aspects of representing and using semantics on the Web. We encourage theoretical, methodological, empirical, and applications papers. The proceedings of this conference will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
This year three of the best papers presented at the conference will have the opportunity to submit an extended version to a special issue of the journal "Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability" (IOS Press).
Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines will be automatically rejected without a review. Authors of accepted papers will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission - details of this process will be given on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. More information about the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) are available on the Springer LNCS Web site (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors).
Submissions and reviewing will be supported by the EasyChair system: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=eswc2014
** apologies for cross-posting **
==== Call for Tutorials ====
http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-tutorials
ESWC 2014 invites tutorials that address the interests of its varied audience: people new to the Semantic Web, Semantic Web researchers and practitioners that wish to learn new technologies, users of Semantic Web technologies, and representatives of government and funding agencies as well as potential private investors in Semantic Web technologies. We welcome submissions of tutorial proposals on all major topics related to semantic technologies.
We especially solicit proposals for tutorials of the following types:
- Tutorials with a coherent theme providing an introduction to new semantic technologies and trends.
- Tutorials describing the application of semantic technologies in specific domains (e.g., life-sciences, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, etc.).
- Tutorials presenting techniques from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research especially in relationship to the tracks of the conference (e.g., techniques from social science, database techniques, NLP techniques etc.).
Tutorials can be half a day or a full day.
We advise having more than one presenter and no more than three, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the tutorial topic.
Tutorials may focus entirely on theoretical aspects; however, we encourage organisers to incorporate hands-on sessions where appropriate. The tutorials should reach a good balance between the topic coverage and its relevance to the community.
Timeline for Tutorials
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Proposals due: Nov 22, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Notification of acceptance: Dec 6, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Tutorial Web site due: Dec 16, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Camera-ready material due: Apr 25, 2014 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Tutorial days: May 25 and May 26, 2014
Responsibilities
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Organizers of accepted tutorials are responsible for preparing and maintaining a Web site that describes the tutorial and includes all relevant information. Organizers are also responsible for submitting the material for attendees (slide sets, additional teaching material, software installation and usage guides for practical hands-on sessions, etc.) to the Tutorial Chair. The ESWC 2014 Organizing Committee is responsible for providing publicity for the tutorials as part of the conference publicity activities, and on-site logistical support to the organizers and attendees. Tutorial attendees must pay the ESWC 2014 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee.
General Information
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Each tutorial will have one reduced registration fee (pre-conference days registration will be free i.e. one of the chairs will only have to pay the main conference fees).
In the interest of the overall quality of the conference, the Tutorial Chair reserves the right to merge tutorials and/or adjust the scope thereof in case a mimimum number of registrations is not reached by the early registration deadline.
Submission details
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Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages, using an 11 pt font for the body of the text of the proposal and should contain the following information:
- Abstract (200 words maximum, for inclusion on the ESWC 2014 website).
- Tutorial description: More specifically, it should specify the objectives of the tutorial and relevance to ESWC 2014, include enough details on the scope of the material to be covered and the depth to which it will be covered and specify the intended audience and any prerequisite knowledge. Appropriate references to the material to be covered by the tutorial must be included.
- Tutorial length. The tutorial can be full or half day (if the tutorial can be either length, please be sure to identify which material is included for each length).
- Specify other venues to which the tutorial or part thereof has or will be presented, in addition to explaining how the current tutorial differs from the other editions. Links to the slides of those tutorial editions should be included in the proposal.
- Brief professional biography of the presenter(s) indicating previous training and speaking experience (such as teaching and tutorial presentation).
Each proposal will be reviewed by the members of the tutorial programme committee, and ranked based on the overall quality of the proposal and the tutorial's fit to the conference. Their recommendation will determine the final decision on the acceptance/rejection of each proposal.
Submission
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Submission will be through the Easychair system (please note that it is the same site to submit workshops and tutorials) https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014workshops-tutorials
Tutorials Chair
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, Fr)
email: aussenac(a)irit.fr
** apologies for cross-posting **
==== Call for Workshops ====
http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-workshops
The organizers of the 11th ESWC 2014 cordially invite you to submit a workshop proposal. ESWC is a major venue for discussing the latest scientific results and innovations in the field of semantic technologies on the Web and Linked Data, attracting a high number of high quality submissions and participants from academia and industry alike.
Co-located workshops at ESWC conferences are distinguished meeting points for discussing ongoing work and latest ideas related to semantic technologies and the Semantic Web. Of particular interest are workshop proposals with an interdisciplinary standpoint, proposals focusing on a specific technology of general interest, or gathering a sub-community. We encourage the submission of workshop proposals on:
Fundamental problems of the Semantic Web / Linked Data such as ontology mining, heterogeneity, scalability and distribution, uncertainty, etc.
Applications of Semantic Web technologies in specific domains,
Important enabling technologies and their adaptation to the needs of the Semantic Web, and
Aspects of Semantic Web research that have been neglected so far,
Techniques from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research (e.g., machine learning, NLP, data mining)
General Information and Criteria
Each proposal will be reviewed by the members of the workshop programme committee, and ranked based on the overall quality of the proposal and the workshop's fit to the conference as detailed below. Their recommendation will determine the final decision on the acceptance/rejection of each proposal, which is to be taken by the workshop and tutorial chairs as well as by the local and the general chair of ESWC 2014.
The criteria for judging the quality of workshop proposals are as follows:
Co-located workshops cover topics falling in the general scope of the ESWC conference.
Workshops are intended to be genuine interactive events and not mini-conferences.
We welcome workshops with creative structures and organizations that attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions.
Workshops should have a clear focus on a specific technology, problem or application.
There is potentially a significant community interested in the workshop's topic.
Workshop duration can be half a day or a full day.
We strongly advise having more than one organizer and no more than four, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic.
In case overlapping workshops are proposed, the workshop chair may contact the organisers to discuss the possibility of merging workshops. Please note that the duration of a workshop might need to be adjusted based on the overall number of submissions received. Further, workshops that receive less than 5 submissions or have less than 10 people registered at the early registration deadline might be canceled.
The organizers of accepted workshops will be responsible for their own reviewing process, publicity (e.g., website, timelines and call for papers), and proceedings production. They will be required to closely cooperate with the Workshop Chair and the ESWC 2014 local organizers to finalize all organizational details. Workshop attendees must pay the ESWC 2014 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee.
Organizers of workshops and tutorials will get a free registration for workshops and tutorials at the pre-conference days, i.e. they will only have to pay the main conference fee.
Important Dates
Workshop proposals due: Nov 22, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Notification of acceptance: Dec 6, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Workshop Web site due: Dec 16, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Workshop camera-ready proceedings due: Apr 25, 2014 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Workshop days: May 25 and May 26, 2014
Suggested Timeline for Workshops
Submission deadline: March 6, 2014
Notifications: April 1, 2014
Camera ready version: April 15, 2014
Submission Guidelines
Workshop proposals have to be submitted via Easychair. Each proposal must consist of a single PDF document written in English, not longer than 3 pages, which contains the following information:
The title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying its goals and motivation.
A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest at this time.
A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest, the workshop audience, as well as the expected number of participants.
A brief description (draft outline) of the proposed workshop format, discussing the mix of events and activities such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, hacking session, or general discussion, and and an approximate timeline.
A list of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have to be known and confirmed at the time of the proposal).
An indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a half-day or full-day event.
Related Workshops and Conferences: Is this the continuation of a workshop series or a new workshop to address an emerging issue? Please provide information about past versions of this workshop and other related workshops (including URLs and submission/acceptance counts, if available).
Names and contact information of the workshop organizers/chair(s) (name, affiliation, email address, homepage and short (one paragraph) biography of each chair, explaining the chair's expertise for the workshop including past experience in organizing/facilitating workshops). Preferably a single contact person per submission.
The best papers of each workshop will be included in the supplementary proceedings of ESWC 2014, which will appear in the Springer LNCS series.
Workshop Chair
Harald Sack (Hasso-Plattner Institute for IT Systems Engineering, DE)
email: harald.sack(a)hpi.uni-potsdam.de
Programme Committee
Abraham Bernstein (University of Zürich, CH)
Chris Bizer (University of Mannheim, DE)
Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, FR)
Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck, AT)
Aldo Gangemi (CNR Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, IT)
Asuncion Gomez-Perez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES)
Frank van Harmelen (VU University Amsterdam, NL)
Manfred Hauswirth (DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, IE)
Pascal Hitzler (Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, US)
Enrico Motta (The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)
Rudi Studer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE)