Hi everyone,
We’re preparing forthe February 2018 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please takea look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201802 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our targetpublication date is on February 19 UTC. As usual, short notes and one-paragraphreviews are most welcome.
Highlights fromthis month:
- Examining Wikipedia With a Broader Lens: Quantifying the Value of Wikipedia’s Relationships with Other Large-Scale Online Communities
- Evaluating Wikipedia as a self-learning resource for statistics: You know they'll use it
- SPOTLIGHT Gesundheit: Gesundheitsinfos
- Ongoing Events in Wikipedia: A Cross-lingual Case Study
- Leveraging structural-context similarity of Wikipedia links to predict twitter user locations
- On the Self-similarity of Wikipedia Talks: a Combined Discourse-analytical and Quantitative Approach
- Usage of Wikipedia by health science and social sciences & humanities undergraduates of University of Peradeniya and South Eastern University of Sri Lanka
- Automatic Generation of Wiktionary Entries for Finno-Ugric Minority Languages
- Vandalism Detection and Triple Scoring
- Wikipedia as a gateway to biomedical research: The relative distribution and use of citations in the English Wikipedia
- Effects of Contributor Experience on the Quality of Health-Related Wikipedia Articles
- Emo, Love, and God: Making Sense of Urban Dictionary, a Crowd-Sourced Online Dictionary
- Fostering Public Good Contributions with Symbolic Awards: A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment at Wikipedia
- The Wisdom of Polarized Crowds
- Can conference papers have information value through Wikipedia? An investigation of four engineering fields
- Wikipedia-integrated publishing: a comparison of successful models
- Use of Louisiana's Digital Cultural Heritage by Wikipedians
- Collaborative Approach to Developing a Multilingual Ontology: A Case Study of Wikidata
- Knowledge categorization affects popularity and quality of Wikipedia articles
- The Conceptual Correspondence between the Encyclopaedia and Wikipedia
- Analysis of Wikipedia-based Corpora for Question Answering
If you have anyquestion about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list.
Masssly, TilmanBayer and Dario Taraborelli
[1]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter
*Hey all,We’re thrilled to announce the Wikimedia Research team now has a
simple, navigable, and accessible landing page, making our output,
projects, and resources easy to discover and learn about:
https://research.wikimedia.org <https://research.wikimedia.org/> The
Research team decided to create a single go-to page (T107389
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107389>) to provide an additional way
to discover information we have on wiki, for the many audiences we would
like to engage with – particularly those who are not already familiar with
how to navigate our projects. On this page, potential academic
collaborators, journalists, funding organizations, and others will find
links to relevant resources, contact information, collaboration and
partnership opportunities, and ways to follow the team's work.There are
many more research resources produced by different teams and departments at
WMF – from Analytics, to Audiences, to Grantmaking, and Programs. If you
see anything that’s missing within the scope of the Research team, please
let us know <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107389>!Dario*
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Applications due Feb 19 (and apologies for cross-posting!)
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From: Matthew Salganik <mjs3(a)princeton.edu>
Date: Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 4:49 PM
Subject: 2018 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science,
applications due Feb 19
To: Computational Sociology <computational-sociology(a)googlegroups.com>
Hi everyone,
Chris Bail and I will be organizing the 2018 Summer Institute in
Computational Social Science, which will be at Duke in late June. The
purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together graduate students,
postdoctoral researchers, and beginning faculty interested in computational
social science. The Summer Institute is for both social scientists (broadly
conceived) and data scientists (broadly conceived).
I've put a longer description below, and you can find more information on
this website: https://compsocialscience.github.io/summer-institute/2018/
Applications are due Monday, February 19, 2018.
Take care.
Matt and Chris
2018 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
>From the evening of Sunday, June 17 to the morning of Saturday, June 30,
2018, the Russell Sage Foundation will sponsor the Summer Institute in
Computational Social Science, to be held at Duke University. The purpose of
the Summer Institute is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral
researchers, and beginning faculty interested in computational social
science. The Summer Institute is for both social scientists (broadly
conceived) and data scientists (broadly conceived). The co-organizers and
principal faculty of the Summer Institute are Christopher Bail and Matthew
Salganik.
The instructional program will involve lectures, group problem sets, and
participant-led research projects. There will also be outside speakers who
conduct computational social science research in academia, industry, and
government. Topics covered include text as data, website scraping, digital
field experiments, non-probability sampling, mass collaboration, and
ethics. There will be ample opportunities for students to discuss their
ideas and research with the organizers, other participants, and visiting
speakers. Because we are committed to open and reproducible research, all
materials created by faculty and students for the Summer Institute will be
released open source.
Participation is restricted to Ph.D. students, postdoctoral researchers,
and untenured faculty within 7 years of their Ph.D. Most participant costs
during the workshop, including housing and most meals, will be covered, and
most travel expenses will be reimbursed up to a set cap. About thirty
participants will be invited. Participants with less experience with social
science research will be expected to complete additional readings in
advance of the Institute, and participants with less experience coding will
be expected to complete a set of online learning modules on the R
programming language. Students doing this preparatory work will be
supported by a teaching assistant who will hold online office hours before
the Institute.
Application materials should be received by Monday, February 19, 2018.
https://compsocialscience.github.io/summer-institute/2018/
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News 🕫 *WWW 2018* ∙ Alternate track on Journalism, Misinformation, and
Fact Checking:
https://www2018.thewebconf.org/call-for-papers/misinformation-cfp/
Dear all,
I am wondering if anybody would be interested in proposing a Wikidata
mapping using CIDOC CRM. Heraklion, where the conference will take place,
is a CRM centre where lots of LOD specialists will join.
I would be happy to answer any questions
best
Trilce
**CIDOC 2018 Call for Papers* OPEN UNTIL February 28, 2018Now through
February 28, we are accepting proposals for presentations, workshops, and
case studies for the International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC) of
the International Council of Museum’s (ICOM) annual conference. Every year,
the CIDOC conference brings together museums and cultural heritage
professionals and researchers together in a dynamic, common forum to share
knowledge and experience, to gain new perspectives and to make new
connections. The theme of this year’s conference is Provenance of
Knowledge. Visit the CIDOC 2018 Call for Papers page for submission
guidelines and selection criteria: http://www.cidoc2018.com/call-papers
<http://www.cidoc2018.com/call-papers>This year’s conference will be held
in the historical seaside city of Heraklion, Crete in Greece from the 29th
of September until the 4th of October. The conference offers a full
programme of sessions and working groups offering new perspectives and
hands on learning experiences. Conference participants, moreover, will have
the chance to experience the museological, historical and natural wealth of
Crete through a full cultural programme, including a visit to the
archaeological site of Knossos, palatial capital of the ancient Minoan
civilization.The thematic focus of the conference is ‘the Provenance of
Knowledge.’ As an essential aspect of documentation, Provenance of
Knowledge refers to the work of tracing the origins of the information and
knowledge about an object, an entity or an idea in order to reconstruct the
whole chain of creation, use, interpretation and dissemination of this
knowledge. The aim of such reconstruction is to confirm or disconfirm,
illustrate, and draw upon the information contained in documentation in
order to facilitate understanding across cultures and time. Work on
provenance of knowledge by different professionals from different
perspectives helps draw together the various threads of documentation,
scholarship and the material evidence kept in museums and other memory
institutions into a common resource for humankind.The task of validating
the information and knowledge held in memory institutions is increasingly
aided by the use of digital technologies in documentation. Such advances,
however, bring their own difficulties, as the abundance of the available
information makes it difficult to introduce standards and processes to
model and maintain the development and validity of documented information.
Therefore, perspectives on unravelling the complications of digital
provenance of knowledge are particularly welcome.The 2018 CIDOC conference
aims at supporting museums and memory institutions in the task of
documentation by deepening our common understanding of the challenges of
provenance of knowledge and the importance of documentation as a means of
knowledge preservation, dissemination and exchange between peoples and
across time.You are, therefore, warmly welcomed to share your insight into
the questions of provenance of knowledge and documentation generally with
the documentation community of CIDOC that will be gathered on the beautiful
island of Crete, Sep. 30 – Oct. 5, 2018.Visit the CIDOC 2018 Call for
Papers page for submission guidelines and selection criteria:
http://www.cidoc2018.com/call-papers <http://www.cidoc2018.com/call-papers>*
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w: trilcenavarrete.com
Hi all,
Below you can find the call for submissions for Wikimania 2018 which
will take place in Cape Town, South Africa on July 18-22. One of the
topical areas in the call for submissions is Research and Academia, if
you're doing research on Wikimedia projects you may want to consider
submitting your research. Note that the deadline is March 18, 2018.
I understand that many of you on this list may have not considered
submitting your research to Wikimania in the past. If you're in doubt,
please ping and I'd be happy to share my experience presenting in the
past few years. :)
Best,
Leila
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On 5 February 2018 at 07:21, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Wikimedia community,
We are pleased to announce that Wikimania 2018 is now accepting
proposals for workshops, discussions, presentations, or research
posters to give during the conference. To read the full instructions
visit the event wiki and click on the link provided there to make your
proposal:
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
The deadline for submissions is 23:59 UTC on Sunday March 18, 2018.
This is approximately 6 weeks away. Whether you are a community member
of one of the Wikimedia projects, or a fellow open content creator or
consumer, we welcome your proposal for a session.
Theme
This year, the conference will be taking place in Cape Town, South
Africa, where the organisers are giving this Wikimania a unique flavor
— an explicit theme based in African philosophy:
“Bridging knowledge gaps, the ubuntu way forward.”
Read more about this theme, why it was chosen, and what it means for
the conference program at the Wikimedia blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/05/wikimania-cape-town-ubuntu
Throughout the conference program, this theme will be tightly held,
but loosely defined - in order to encourage a diverse range of
responses to the theme. It is our hope that this theme will give us
the opportunity to further our goal of creating the “sum of human
knowledge”, by encouraging greater diversity and inclusion in who
participates and what we discuss at Wikimania.
To learn more, and to make a proposal for the conference, please visit:
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
Please forward this announcement to other lists and groups across the
Wikimedia movement.
We look forward to reading your submissions. Sincerely,
Program committee co-chairs Emna Mizouni, Felix Nartey, and Liam Wyatt.
Apologies for cross-posting
Call for Papers, Posters & Workshops and Tutorials
SEMANTiCS 2018 - The Linked Data Conference
14th International Conference on Semantic Systems
Vienna, Austria
September 10 -13, 2018
http://2018.semantics.cc
Important Dates (Research & Innovation incl. Data Science Track)
Abstract Submission Deadline: April 15, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Paper Submission Deadline: April 22, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance: June 4, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper: August 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Submission via Easychair on
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2018
SEMANTiCS’18 proceedings will be published as Open Access by Elsevier
Procedia Computer Science.
The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for professionals
who make semantic computing work, understand its benefits, and encounter
its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers,
IT-architects, software engineers and researchers from a wide spectrum
of organisations ranging from SMEs and non-profit organizations, to
public administration bodies, 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, including
enterprise data, linked data & open data strategies, methodologies in
knowledge modelling and text & data analytics. The SEMANTiCS community
is highly diverse; attendees routinely interlinking areas such as
knowledge management, technical documentation, e-commerce, big data
analysis, enterprise search, document management, business intelligence
and enterprise vocabulary management.
Given the success of last year’s conference in Amsterdam, which
attracted more than 370 attendees from 28 countries, SEMANTiCS 2018 is
bound to continue a long tradition of bringing together a community 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 a broad range of regular 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 evaluate
semantic software systems.
The SEMANTiCS program will provide a rich mix of technical talks, panel
discussions on emerging topics and presentations by people who make
things work - just like you. In addition, attendees will have a unique
opportunity to network with experts in a variety of fields. These
relationships provide great value to organisations as they encounter
technical challenges 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 the key event across
Europe for a diverse community of industry leaders and academic experts
alike.
Following the success of the previous year, this year’s SEMANTiCS will
also again feature a special Data Science track, which offer a unique
opportunity to bring together researchers and practitioners interested
in the intersection of Semantic Technologies, Linked Data and Data
Science and provide a platform to present their ideas and discuss the
most important scientific, technical and socio-economic challenges in
this emerging field.
SEMANTiCS 2018 particularly welcomes submissions on the following key
topics:
*Web Semantics, Linked (Open) Data & schema.org
*Corporate Knowledge Graphs
*Knowledge Integration and Language Technologies
*Data Quality Management
*Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems
*Ethics and Explainable AI
*Data Science (special track, see below)
Following the success of previous years, we welcome any submissions
related, but not limited to, the following ‘horizontal’ (research) and
‘vertical’ (industries) topics:
Horizontals
*Enterprise Linked Data & Data Integration
*Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search
*Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies
*Semantics in Big Data
*Text Analytics
*Data Portals & Knowledge Visualization
*Semantic Information Management
*Document Management & Content Management
*Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management
*Smart Connectivity, Networking & Interlinking
*Smart Data & Semantics in IoT
*Semantic Services
*Semantics for IT Safety & Security
*Semantic Rules, Policies & Licensing
*Community, Social & Societal Aspects
Verticals
*Industry & Engineering
*Life Sciences & Health Care
*Public Administration
*e-Science
*Digital Humanities
*Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM)
*Education & eLearning
*Media & Data Journalism
*Publishing, Marketing & Advertising
*Tourism & Recreation
*Financial & Insurance Industry
*Telecommunication & Mobile Services
*Sustainable Development: Climate, Water, Air, Ecology
*Energy, Smart Homes & Smart Grids
*Food, Agriculture & Farming
*Safety, Security & Privacy
*Transport, Environment & Geospatial
We invite contributions to the following tracks:
# Research and Innovation Track
The Research & Innovation track at SEMANTiCS welcomes 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 must not exceed 12 pages in
length for full papers and 6 pages for short papers, including
references and optional appendices.
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: April 15, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Paper Submission Deadline: April 22, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance: June 4, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper: August 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Author instructions: Proceedings should follow the guidelines of the
Elsevier Procedia Computer Science format. Details will be provided soon.
# Data Science Track
Following the success of last year’s inaugural edition, SEMANTiCS will
again feature a Data Science track that provides a unique opportunity to
bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the
intersection between data science and Semantic Technologies. Semantics
will provide a forum to present their ideas and discuss the most
important scientific, technical and socio-economic challenges of this
emerging field. The detailed Call for Data Science papers is available
here: https://2018.semantics.cc/calls
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: April 15, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Paper Submission Deadline: April 22, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance: June 4, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper: August 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Author instructions: Proceedings should follow the guidelines of the
Elsevier Procedia Computer Science format. Details will be provided soon.
# Posters and Demos Track
The Posters & Demonstrations Track invites innovative work in progress,
late-breaking research and innovation results, and smaller contributions
in all fields related to the Semantic Web in a broader sense. These
include submissions on innovative applications with impact on end users,
such as demos of solutions that users may test or that are yet in the
conceptual phase, but are worth discussing, and also applications or
pieces of code that may attract developers and potential research or
business partners. The detailed Call for Poster & Demos papers is
available here: https://2018.semantics.cc/calls
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: June 11, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance: July 2, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper: August 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Author instructions: Proceedings should follow the guidelines of the
CEUR Workshop proceedings format. Details will be provided soon.
# Industry and Use Case Track
Focusing strongly on industry needs, SEMANTICS invites presentations on
enterprise solutions that deal with semantic processing of data and/or
information in areas like Linked Data, Data Publishing, Semantic Search,
Recommendation Services, Sentiment Detection, Search Engine Add-Ons,
Thesaurus and/or Ontology Management, Text Mining, Data Mining and any
related fields. All submissions have a strong focus on real world
applications beyond the prototypical stage and demonstrate the power of
semantic systems! The detailed Call for Industry and Use Case
Presentations is available here: https://2018.semantics.cc/calls
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: May 6, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Paper Submission Deadline: May 28, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of Acceptance: August 22, 2018 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
# Workshops and Tutorials
Workshops and tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2018 allow your organisation or
project to advance and promote your topics and gain increased
visibility. The workshops and tutorials will provide a forum for
presenting widely recognized contributions and findings to a diverse and
knowledgeable community. Furthermore, the event can be used as a
dissemination activity in the scope of large research projects or as a
closed format for research/commercial project consortia meetings. A
detailed call for workshops and tutorials is available here:
https://2018.semantics.cc/calls
Important Dates for Workshops:
Workshop Proposals due: April 1, 2018 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Notification of Acceptance: April 14, 2018 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars,
show-cases, etc., without call for papers):
Submission deadline: July 1, 2018 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Notifications: July 10, 2018 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
# Vocarnival
Bootstrap your new Vocabulary project: At the carnival you can present
your ideas and early stage vocabs to find the right people to get the
Vocab discussion going. For this event we use a very open definition of
what a vocabulary is. Ontologies, classifications, thesauri, concept and
metadata schemes, whatever their format, in RDF or not, are all welcome.
We require at least a project website. Details to follow.
The detailed calls will be available on the conference website
http://2018.semantics.cc
Research and Innovation Chairs:
Anna Fensel, University of Innsbruck
Victor de Boer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Data Science Track Chairs:
Bernhard Haslhofer, Austrian Institute of Technology
Laura Hollink, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Alexander Schindler, Vienna University of Technology
Industry and Use case Presentations
Tobias Bürger, BMW
Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer
Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company
Workshops and Tutorials Chairs:
Javier D. Fernández, WU Vienna
Tobias Kuhn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Posters and Demos
Ali Khalili, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Maria Koutraki, FIZ Karlsruhe
Conference Chairs:
Elmar Kiesling, TU Wien
Tassilo Pellegrini, UAS St. Pölten
The program committee will be announced on the conference website
http://2018.semantics.cc
*TL;DR*: The Analytics Hadoop cluster will be completely down for max
2h on *Feb
6th* (EU/CET morning) to upgrade all the daemons to Java 8.
Hi everybody,
we are planning to upgrade the Analytics Hadoop cluster to Java 8 on *Feb
6th* (EU/CET morning) for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166248.
Sadly we can't do a rolling upgrade of all the jvm-based Hadoop daemons
since the distribution that we use (Cloudera) suggests to perform the
upgrade only after a complete cluster shutdown. This means that for a
couple of hours (hopefully a lot less) all the Hadoop based services will
be unavailable (Hive, Oozie, HDFS, etc..).
We have tested the new configuration in labs and all the regular Analytics
jobs seem to work correctly, so we don't expect major issues after the
upgrade, but if you have any question or concern please follow up in the
task.
Thanks!
Luca and Andrew (on behalf of the Analytics team)