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Call for Research & Innovation Papers
Call for Research & Innovation Papers
SEMANTiCS 2015
Transfer // Engineering // Community
11th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Vienna, Austria September 15-17, 2015
http://www.semantics.cc
<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.i-semantics.at%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&…>
Important Dates (Research & Innovation)
* Abstract Submission Deadline: May 22, 2015
* Paper Submission Deadline: May 29, 2015
* Notification of Acceptance:June 26, 2015
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 15 , 2015
SEMANTiCS proceedings will be published by ACM ICP.
Submissions via Easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2015research
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3…>
The calls for “Industry & Use Case Presentations” and “Posters and
Demos”at SEMANTiCS 2015 can be found here:http://www.semantics.cc/
<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.semantics.cc%2Fopen-calls%2Fpa…>
The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for professionals
who make semantic computing work, who understand its benefits and
encounter its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information
managers, IT-architects, software engineers and researchers from
organisations ranging from NPOs, through public administrations to the
largest companies in the world. Attendees learn from industry experts
and top researchers about emerging trends and topics in the fields of
semantic software, enterprise data, linked data & open data strategies,
methodologies in knowledge modelling and text & data analytics. The
SEMANTiCS community is highly diverse; attendees have responsibilities
in interlinking areas like knowledge management, technical
documentation, e-commerce, big data analytics, enterprise search,
document management, business intelligence and enterprise vocabulary
management.
The success of last year’s conference in Leipzig with more than 230
attendees from 22 countries proves that SEMANTiCS 2015 will continue a
long tradition of bringing together colleagues from around the world.
There will be presentations on industry implementations, use case
prototypes, best practices, panels, papers and posters to discuss
semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions as well as informal
settings. SEMANTICS addresses problems common among information
managers, software engineers, IT-architects and various specialist
departments working to develop, implement and/or evaluate semantic
software systems.
The SEMANTiCS program is a rich mix of technical talks, panel
discussions of important topics and presentations by people who make
things work - just like you. In addition, attendees can network with
experts in a variety of fields. These relationships provide great value
to organisations as they encounter subtle technical issues in any stage
of implementation. The expertise gained by SEMANTiCS attendees has a
long-term impact on their careers and organisations. These factors make
SEMANTiCS for our community the major industry related event across Europe.
The following ‘horizontals’ (research) and ‘verticals’ (industries)
topics are of interest:
* Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies
* Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search
* Data Integration & Enterprise Linked Data
* Big Data & Text Analytics
* Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization
* Semantic Information Management
* Document Management & Content Management
* Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management
* Industry & Engineering
* Life Sciences & Health Care
* Public Administration
* Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM)
* Media, Publishing & Advertising
* Financial & Insurance Industry
* Telecommunications
* Energy, Transport & Environment
Research / Innovation Papers
The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes the submission of
papers on novel scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the
topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have
been submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should follow the ACM
ICPS guidelines for formatting
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.acm.org%2Fsigs%2Fpublications%…>)
and must not exceed 8 pages in lenght for full papers and 4 pages for
short papers, including references and optional appendices.
All accepted full papers and short papers will be published in the
digital library of the ACM ICP Series under the ISBN-No.:
978-1-4503-1972-0. Research & Innovation papers should be submitted
through EasyChair at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2015research
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3…>.
Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format)
format. Other formats will not be accepted. For the camera-ready
version, the source files (Latex, Word Perfect, Word) will also be needed.
Important Dates (Research & Innovation)
* Abstract Submission Deadline: May 22, 2015
* Paper Submission Deadline: May 29, 2015
* Notification of Acceptance:June 26, 2015
* Camera-Ready Paper: July 15 , 2015
Research and Innovation Chairs:
Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW, Universität Leipzig
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Siemens AG Österreich
Programme Committee:
to be announced
SEMANTiCS 2015 Organisation Committee:
* Axel Polleres, Conference Chair
* Tassilo Pellegrini, Conference Chair
* Christian Dirschl, Industry Chair
* Sebastian Hellmann, Research & Innovation Chair
* Josiane Xavier Parreira, Research & Innovation Chair
* Agata Filipowska, Poster and Demo Chair
* Ruben Verborgh, Poster and Demo Chair
* Anna Fensel, Workshop Chair
Hi all,
There are 2000 editors who have received access to 20 different online
databases. We know the usernames of these editors and the url prefixes of
the websites they were given access to.
We need to know:
- from July 18th 2014 to January 11th 2014
- on English Wikipedia
- for the cohort of 2000 TWL editors
- ...how many times did they add links to any of the 20 partner websites
I have my fingers crossed that Quarry can solve this but I need some help
to write a query.
Bonus queries:
1) In that date range, how many links did these editors add using partner
websites on *all Wikipedias* (any language)
2) What is the baseline change in all external links on English Wikipedia
in that date range
3) What is the baseline change in all external links on *all Wikipedias*
since July 18th 2014
Thanks so much for any guidance on this!
Jake (Ocaasi)
The Wikipedia Library
I’m sharing a proposal that Reid Priedhorsky and his collaborators at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently submitted to the Wikimedia Analytics Team aimed at producing privacy-preserving geo-aggregates of Wikipedia pageview data dumps and making them available to the public and the research community. [1]
Reid and his team spearheaded the use of the public Wikipedia pageview dumps to monitor and forecast the spread of influenza and other diseases, using language as a proxy for location. This proposal describes an aggregation strategy adding a geographical dimension to the existing dumps.
Feedback on the proposal is welcome on the lists or the project talk page on Meta [3]
Dario
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Geo-aggregation_of_Wikipedia_pagev…
[2] http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003892
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Geo-aggregation_of_Wikipedia_…
Dear All,
This email is about a job opening. Sorry if it's not appropriate for this
mailing list, however, both positions are heavily involved with Wikipedia
Research (among other things) and therefore pretty much related to the
topic.
I would appreciate if you could circulate it within your networks.
Best,
Taha
Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Social Science
Grade 7: Salary £30,434 to £37,394 p.a.
We are a leading international multidisciplinary research and policy
institute at the University of Oxford, looking for two full-time
Postdoctoral Researchers to join Dr Taha Yasseri
<http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=315> to work on his funded
projects, “HUMANE:
a typology, method and roadmap for HUman-MAchine Networks
<http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=131>” and “Collective Memory
in the Digital Age; understanding “forgetting” on the Internet
<http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=132>”. In both projects
quantitative analysis will be performed on large scale transactional data
collected from the web to understand social aspects of collective online
behaviour.
Applicants should hold (or be completing) a PhD in Social Sciences,
Computer Science or Informatics, Physics, Mathematics, or any other
relevant discipline, have a strong interest in the social aspects of online
technologies and proven experience in performing and writing papers based
on quantitative research. The successful applicants will work in a
multidisciplinary research team and contribute to the research projects at
all their stages, including literature review, research design, data
collection, data analysis, writing papers, presenting at conferences, and
other dissemination activities, e.g., writing blog posts.
Based at our OII North office at 34 St. Giles, Oxford, these positions are
available from 1st April 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter, for 18
months in the first instance, with the possibility of extension, depending
on funding.
Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. The application form
and further details, including a job description and selection criteria,
are available on the Oxford University's recruitment website
<https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobs…>
.
*The closing date for applications is 12:00 GMT on Monday 19 January 2015
and only applications received before then can be considered.* Interviews
for those short-listed are currently planned to take place in the week
commencing Monday 2 February 2015.
--
Dr Taha Yasseri
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/yasseri/
Research Fellow in Computational Social Science
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford
1 St. Giles
Oxford OX1 3JS
UK
Tel. +44-1865-287229
Forwarding.
Pine
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From: "James Hare" <jamesmhare(a)gmail.com>
Date: Jan 13, 2015 2:27 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X
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Cc:
(Standard apology for cross-posting.)
Greetings everyone!
I am pleased to announce a new project, WikiProject X, funded by a
Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grant. WikiProject X's goal is
to improve the experience of WikiProjects, which are subject-area (or
goal-oriented) collaborative spaces on the English Wikipedia. By making
WikiProjects easier to use and maintain, it will be easier to build
sub-communities of like-minded people, giving editors a sense of community
on a huge and daunting website like Wikipedia. This includes mechanisms for
recruiting new participants and encouraging the creation of safe spaces
where editors, new and experienced alike, can feel like they can
participate in discussions without fear of intimidation or jargon.
The project will begin with some research, both qualitative research in the
form of interviews and case studies, and quantitative research based on
Wikipedia’s database. Our focus will be on WikiProjects that have been
successful in organizing editors, and learning more about what makes them
work. Based on this research, we will develop new tools and interfaces that
make WikiProjects easier to use and easier to maintain. Please note that
this is an opt-in program for WikiProjects; no WikiProject will be required
to make changes.
I would like to invite the community to check out our new page on
Wikipedia, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_X>
(shortcut WP:WPX). There, you can share your experiences with WikiProjects
and sign up to become a pilot tester. Community participation is crucial
for the success of this project, and the more voices we hear, the better.
If you want to sign up for more updates, sign up for our newsletter here: <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_X/Newsletter>.
Please let me know if you have any questions. I am very much looking
forward to working with everyone on making this project succeed!
Cheers,
James Hare
Project Manager, WikiProject X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_X
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The upcoming Wikimedia Research showcase <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Research_and_Data/Showcase> (Wednesday January 14, 11.30 PT) will host two guest speakers: Felipe Ortega <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GlimmerPhoenix> (University of Madrid) and Benjamin Mako Hill <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Benjamin_Mako_Hill> (University of Washington).
As usual, the showcase will be broadcast on YouTube (the livestream link will follow on the list) and we’ll host the QA on the #wikimedia-research IRC channel on freenode.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Dario
Functional roles and career paths in Wikipedia
By Felipe Ortega <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:GlimmerPhoenix>
An understanding of participation dynamics within online production communities requires an examination of the roles assumed by participants. Recent studies have established that the organizational structure of such communities is not flat; rather, participants can take on a variety of well-defined functional roles. What is the nature of functional roles? How have they evolved? And how do participants assume these functions? Prior studies focused primarily on participants' activities, rather than functional roles. Further, extant conceptualizations of role transitions in production communities, such as the Reader to Leader framework, emphasize a single dimension: organizational power, overlooking distinctions between functions. In contrast, in this paper we empirically study the nature and structure of functional roles within Wikipedia, seeking to validate existing theoretical frameworks. The analysis sheds new light on the nature of functional roles, revealing the intricate “ areer paths" resulting from participants' role transitions.
Free Knowledge Beyond Wikipedia
A conversation facilitated by Benjamin Mako Hill <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Benjamin_Mako_Hill>
In some of my research with Leah Buechley <http://mako.cc/academic/buechley_hill_DIS_10.pdf>, I’ve explored the way that increasing engagement and diversity in technology communities often means not just attacking systematic barriers to participation but also designing for new genres and types of engagement. I hope to facilitate a conversation about how WMF might engage new readers by supporting more non-encyclopedic production. I'd like to call out some examples from the new Wikimedia project proposals list <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects>, encourage folks to share entirely new ideas, and ask for ideas about how we could dramatically better support Wikipedia's sister projects.
Speaking of fundraising far over budget, did the question about an
endowment perpetuity make it on to the last donor survey? If so, what was
the result? I seem to remember a favorable response, from somewhere, but
can't find anything either way. Was it a Board poll?
In case you missed this, the Wikimedia Services team is soliciting feedback on the design of a public API for Wikidata, considering MQL and SPARQL among possible options [1]
If you are interested in contributing to this discussion, please chime in on the Phabricator thread or help spread the word among interested parties [2].
Dario
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85181
[2] https://twitter.com/ReaderMeter/status/552919940387196928
This from Ars[1]. Sound familiar?
* - "The top 10 percent of contributors end up supplying an average of
about 80 percent of the total effort put into these projects." - "Most
people who show up to check out a project never return. The most compelling
projects still saw 60 percent of their users stop by for a single visit and
never come back; the worst case was an 83-percent rate." - "The topic of
the project also seemed to have some effect [on participation rates]. The
biggest project... lets users sift through Kepler telescope data to search
for exoplanets; that attracted almost 30,000 users in its first 180 days.
The smallest, Galaxy Zoo Supernova (which is no longer active) only drew a
bit over 3,000."*
Original manuscript [2] (paywalled). Anyone have subscription access?
1.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/01/most-participants-in-citizen-science…
2. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/01/02/1408907112
--
Jonathan T. Morgan
Community Research Lead
Wikimedia Foundation
User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>
jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org