Hello everyone,
As part of Wikimedia Deutschland’s 2030 Strategic Direction and in close
collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the Wikidata team has
set its priorities for 2025 around 4 core themes: ensuring Wikidata can
continue to grow sustainably, strengthening the diverse community of
editors, increasing reuse our data, and refining the underlying platform
services that power everything we build together.
We chose these focuses because, first, as Wikidata’s size and impact
expand, it’s crucial that we build systems and policies that keep our
infrastructure healthy and our data dependable. Second, our community
remains at the heart of everything we do -- whether someone contributes the
first statement to a brand new Item or runs complex queries that power
research and apps. Finally, by refining data access methods “as a service”
across our ecosystem, we’ll open the door for all our product teams and
third-party developers to build meaningful services and applications that
create positive impact.
Supporting sustainable growth means two things this year.
We’ll partner with the Wikibase teams to improve federated SPARQL queries.
This would allow you pull data seamlessly from multiple Wikibase instances
lowering the barrier to hosting some data in other parts of the Wikibase
Ecosystem, ensuring everyone can continue to access and edit data reliably.
At the same time, we’ll have conversations about data governance guidelines
together with the Cloud and Suite teams and the wider Wikidata community.
This way it's always obvious where different kinds of data belong. That
clarity helps editors make confident decisions, reduces duplicate work, and
lays the foundation for new projects that can flourish alongside Wikidata
itself.
Strengthening the Wikidata community means making every step of
contribution easier and more rewarding.
Mobile editing has grown in recent years, yet adding or updating statements
on a phone still forces many users into “desktop view.” We’ll roll out a
prototype that will make editing statements on mobile phones easier. To
help more advanced editors and tool builders, we’ll continue growing the
visibility and documentation around EntitySchemas, so that editors
everywhere can adopt these powerful templates and can integrate them out of
the box. And of course, we’ll bring people together through online and
in-person events such as WikidataCon, regional capacity‑building campaigns
in Africa, meetups at Wikimania and other conferences, XXX Days events like
Data Reuse Days and Lexico Days, and more. By connecting newcomers with
experienced mentors, by highlighting local hubs where editors can support
each other, and by linking each Item back to its relevant WikiProjects,
we’ll nurture more active, diverse, and resilient communities.
Our third focus area is Increasing mission-aligned data reuse
The Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_For_Wikimedia_Projects> team will
improve the editing experience and increase productivity of Wikipedia
contributors by making it easier for editors to monitor, understand, and
act on changes to their watchlisted articles when the edit comes from
Wikidata. Displaying Wikidata edits in Watchlist and Recent Changes pages
is an opt-in feature of the user preferences; our aim is to increase
awareness, adoption, and utility of this function by summer 2026.
In parallel, we will raise awareness and contributors’ understanding of the
Wikidata integrations currently being used in the Wikimedia Projects
through a community outreach project by hosting an online conference, Wikidata
and Sister Projects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_and_Sister_Projects>,
dedicated to celebrating and informing Wikimedians of the many ways
Wikidata currently supports the Wikimedia Projects. Additionally, we are
reviewing the available documentation on Wikidata integrations to ensure it
is updated, comprehensive, and available in multiple core languages.
Refining platform services “as a service” is our fourth focus area.
We’ll refine data access methods so Wikidata's data can be reused to build
meaningful services and applications. Specifically, we'll build out search
capabilities in the REST API so developers can discover and query data more
easily. We’ll ensure the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is optimized for its
core strength of supporting queries that need the graph -- keeping it fast
and reliable under complex workloads. Finally, we’ll improve our data dumps
to provide more accessible snapshots and subsets of Wikidata’s data.
What does this mean for you?
If you’re a mobile‑first contributor, editing from your phone will become
smooth and straightforward. If you’re a developer or researcher, you’ll
gain powerful new search endpoints in the REST API, a finely tuned Wikidata
Query Service for graph-centric queries, and cleaner, more timely data
dumps to build on. If you organize or participate in events, you’ll find
more support and clearer pathways to grow local hubs and share best
practices. If you’re leveraging Wikidata’s data to support your workflows
and content in other Wikimedia projects, you’ll have access to current
use-cases, examples and better documentation to refer to. Ultimately, every
update we make in this period is designed to give you more confidence, more
choice, and more impact as you add, improve, and reuse the world’s free
structured knowledge.
We’ll keep you posted on progress throughout the year and as always,
welcome your questions and feedback on [talk page].
Thank you for your efforts to drive Wikidata forward.
Best regards,
The Wikidata Team
Wikimedia Deutschland
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CICM 2025 Fourth Announcement and Final Call for Papers
*** DEADLINES EXTENDED BY ONE WEEK ***
18th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2025 -
6-11 October 2025
Brasilia, Brazil
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2025
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More and more mathematical information is digitally processed, generated,
communicated, stored, and curated. CICM brings together the many separate
communities that have developed theoretical and practical solutions for
mathematical applications such as computation, deduction, knowledge management,
and user interfaces. It offers a venue for discussing problems and solutions in
each of these areas and their integration. Besides the CICM main program
soliciting formal CICM submissions there will be associated workshops with
separate submission options.
We are inviting formal submissions on all topics relating to intelligent
computer mathematics, in particular, but not limited to
* theorem proving and computer algebra
* mathematical knowledge management
* digital mathematical libraries
A comprehensive but not exhausting list of topics of interest can be found on
the conference website:
https://cicm-conference.org/2025/cicm.php?event=&menu=topics
The program committee is chaired by Valeria de Paiva, Berkeley and Peter Koepke,
Bonn. The CICM 2025 invited speakers are:
* Fabian Huch, Technische Universität München (TUM)
* Assia Mahboubi, INRIA, Nantes
* Daniele Nantes Sobrinho, University of Brasilia (UnB)
* Josef Urban, Czech Institute of of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC)
The joint invited speaker with LFSA 2025 will be:
* Temur Kutsia, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC), Johannes
Kepler University
*** Formal Paper Submissions ***
Formal submissions in one of the following categories will be reviewed
rigorously and accepted papers will be published in a volume of Springer LNAI:
* regular papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography) present novel research results
* project and survey papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography)
summarize existing results
* system and dataset descriptions (4 to 5 pages + bibliography)
present digital artifacts
*** Doctoral Symposium: Two-Page Abstracts***
The doctoral program provides PhD students a forum to present early results to
receive constructive feedback and mentoring. To attend, submissions of two-page
abstracts are expected in which the focus and research questions of the expected
PhD theses are described; details on completed research tasks and remaining
research plans should be given. In addition to these abstract, a two-pages CV of
the applicant should also be submitted, detailing background information (name,
university, supervisor), education (sought degree, previous degrees),
employments and relevant research experience (publications, attended
conferences/workshops).
The doctoral program will be chaired by Claudia Nalon, UnB Brasilia, and Marcelo
Finger, USP Sao Paulo. Further details on the program will be announced on the
CICM 2025 website.
*** Important Dates ***
Formal submissions
- Abstract deadline: May 5, 2025 (extended)
- Full paper deadline: May 12, 2025 (extended)
- Reviews sent to authors: June 16, 2025
- Rebuttals due: June 20, 2025
- Notification of acceptance: July 4, 2025
- Camera-ready copies due: July 18, 2025
- Conference: October 6-11, 2025
Doctoral programme applications
- Submission deadline: TBA
*** Submissions ***
All submissions should be made via EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cicm2025
using the Springer LNCS style files
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…
If software or data is relevant to a paper, a link that provides access to the
software/data must be provided to enable reproduction of results.
*** Best Papers ***
CICM 2025 honors the best paper and best student paper with respect to reviews
and program committee discussions with an award.
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Call for Industry & Use Case Presentations
The Industry & Use Case track at SEMANTiCS welcomes submissions that
present use cases and industry adoption of semantic technology. Solutions
that deal with semantic processing of data and/or information in areas like
Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning,
Data Publishing, Thesaurus and/or Ontology management, and any related
fields. All submissions have a strong focus on real world applications
beyond the prototypical status and demonstrate the power of semantic
systems!
*Important dates*
-
*Submission Deadline:* May 14, 2025 (11:59 pm)
-
*Notification of Acceptance:* June 13, 2025 (11:59 pm)
-
*Presentation Ready:* August 18, 2025 (11:59 pm)
All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12)
*Submission via Easychair on*
*https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025*
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025>. Please notice that
a paper abstract is not necessary, as your submission will only include a
presentation at SEMANTiCS and not a paper. Any submission should contain a
summary of 200 to 300 words that will be used in the final program. Your
submission must also include a full page description of the use case you
want to present, in particular: initial situation, approach, business value
and benefits of the semantic solution, prospects and recommendation.
Submissions that don’t meet these requirements cannot be taken into account.
Via Easychair, you can enter your summary in the field “Abstract”, and the
full page description via the “upload paper” button. The summary will
appear in the program on the webpage, the full page description will only
be used in the selection process.
*Topics of Interest*
SEMANTiCS 2025 especially invites contributions that target the following
main topics in the context of semantic-based research and systems as well
as applicative domains.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
-
Large Language Models (LLM) combined with Knowledge Graphs
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Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management
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Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g.
reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery)
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Knowledge Management (e.g. acquisition, capture, extraction, authoring,
integration, publication)
-
Reasoning, rules and policies
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Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data
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Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs
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Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs
-
Semantics in Data Science
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Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
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Authentication of knowledge graphs
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IoT and Stream Processing, Linked Data Event Streams
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Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems
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Provenance and Data Change Tracking
-
Semantic Interoperability (via mapping, crosswalks, standards, etc.)
*Author Guidelines and Submission*
-
This call for presentations reaches out to professionals in the areas
related to the topics of SEMANTiCS for proposals to present industry
implementations, best practices and use case prototypes, to discuss
semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions as well as informal
settings. Additionally, we explicitly encourage the submission of software
applications, apps or services that demonstrate the usefulness and benefits
of semantic technologies and semantic data management.
-
To contribute a submission for a presentation at SEMANTiCS 2025 please
prepare the following: Fill out the online application at Easychair and
give us relevant information about your expertise and your professional
background.
-
Please notice that a paper abstract is not necessary, as your submission
will only include a presentation at SEMANTiCS and not a paper. Any
submission should contain a summary of 200 to 300 words that will be used
in the final program. Your submission must also include a full page
description of the use case you want to present, iIn particular: initial
situation, approach, business value and benefits of the semantic solution,
prospects and recommendation. Submissions that don’t meet these
requirements cannot be taken into account.
-
Via Easychair, you can enter your summary in the field “Abstract”, and
the full page description via the “upload paper” button. The summary will
appear in the program on the webpage, the full page description will only
be used in the selection process.
-
All accepted submissions will be granted a presentation slot at the main
conference. Please stick to this time pattern when preparing your talk.
This is the only way we can guarantee a smooth and satisfying programme and
allow all conference participants to attend as many slots as possible
without missing important information.
-
Submissions must adhere to the fair use of Large Language Models. Please
refer to the SEMANTiCS full policy for more details:
https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/llm-policy
When your submission is accepted and you are preparing your talk, please
take care to address the following aspects:
-
*Initial Situation *What kind of challenge did you face in the beginning of
the project? What problems needed to be solved?
-
*Approach and IT-Solution *Which approach and methodology has been chosen
to tackle the problem(s)? How is your solution composed with respect to
technological aspects / human aspects / organisational aspects? How do the
semantic components support the process from data to knowledge?
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*Success Criteria for / Benefit of the Semantic Solution *Which factors
(conscious and unconscious) have been crucial to the success of your
project? Which obstacles did you face? How can you measure the benefit of
your solution? How does the organisation benefit from your solution?
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*Prospects and Recommendations *What are the next steps planned in your
project? Can you give recommendations with respect to development /
deployment of semantic solutions within organisational / corporate settings?
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*Demo (if applicable) *Prepare a short demonstration of your tool / service.
*Review and Evaluation Criteria*
Every submission will be reviewed by the Programme Committee.
Submissions to this track will be evaluated according to the following
criteria:
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Your presentation is relevant to industry and industrial purposes. It
illustrates how semantic technologies / solutions contribute to or improve
existing businesses and / or generate new ones.
-
The presented solution has already been deployed and / or has been
tested in a practical environment – at least prototypically.
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Your presentation is well-structured and does bring across its message.
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The topic is well described and covers enough explanations, examples,
use cases, graphics, etc.
-
Novelty: The topic covered is new to your industry – not necessarily new
to business in general
In case your presentation will be accepted, we will provide you with
detailed information on organisational matters according to the selection
of submissions and conference participation.
We are looking forward to your contribution!
Marco Brattinga
Artem Revenko
*Industry & Use Case Track Chairs*
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Hello wiki-research community!
I'm sharing a call-for-papers for a workshop that I'm helping to organize
at ACL 2025 (https://2025.aclweb.org/) that will be focused on celebrating
Wikimedia's contributions to the natural language processing (NLP)
community and highlighting approaches to ensuring the sustainability of
this relationship for years to come. Our website for the workshop is on
Meta (and I've summarized the content below):
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(EMNLP_2024>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(ACL_2025)
The workshop will be hybrid (virtual and in-person components). We have not
been assigned a date yet but it will either be July 31st or August 1st,
2025. Paper submission deadline is 23 April 2025. To get a sense of
potential costs to attend, you can see last year's conference registration:
<https://2023.emnlp.org/registration/#virtual-pricing>
https://2024.aclweb.org/registration
There are three ways in which we are inviting contributions [1]:
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Wikimedian provocations: we would like to collect ideas from Wikimedians
about what NLP tooling would be beneficial for your work. These are
informal and will help us guide future iterations. We will also do our best
to summarize them for the workshop and welcome folks who provide these to
attend (though that's not required).
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Datasets: these will be traditional peer-reviewed, archival papers (8
pages max) that focus on describing datasets that would be useful to the
Wikimedia community. Given that we haven't collected the Wikimedian
provocations yet, we've provided a few seed ideas related to Wikipedia's
core content policies and the Community Wishlist:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(ACL_2025)/Track_2_Guidan…
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Ongoing or published work on NLP for Wikimedia: if you'd like to
participate in the workshop and have previous work that is relevant, we'd
also love to have you. This track is also non-archival.
We will also be providing a paper checklist shortly (check back on the Meta
site) to give authors guidance on how to better align their work with the
needs and some of the principles of the Wikimedia Movement. We encourage
questions to the organizing team (cc'ed) and I have office hours that folks
can book if they would benefit from a more extensive discussion about ideas
(in particular for the Datasets track):
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ05jfb…
Best,
Isaac
[1] If you have early-stage work around Wikimedia that doesn't quite fit
into any of these tracks (and even if you don't), I'd highly encourage you
to check out WikiWorkshop:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workshop_2025
--
Isaac Johnson <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Isaac_(WMF)> (he/him)
-- Senior Research Scientist -- Wikimedia Foundation
Hi everyone,
As we move into a busy season of conferences and workshops, I wanted to
share a quick update on upcoming events the Wikimedia Research team is
participating in or organizing:
-
*CHI 2025 (April 26-May 1) *[1] – Eli Asikin-Garmager and I will be
attending the CHI Conference in Yokohama. If you’ll be there too, let us
know- we’d love to connect!
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*The Web Conference (April 26-May 2) *[2]– Diego Saez Trumper will be
representing our team at WWW 2025 in Sydney. Feel free to reach out if
you’re planning to attend.
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*Wiki Workshop 2025 *[3] is exactly *one month away*! We’re excited to
host this virtual event on *May 21&22*. Registration is free and open to
all [4]. Stay tuned for more details coming soon, and thank you again to
everyone who submitted work or helped spread the word!
-
*Call for Papers Reminder:* The *WikiNLP 2025 workshop at ACL* [5] is
still accepting submissions. If you're working on NLP and Wikimedia-related
research, consider submitting. The deadline is April 30, 2025.
Looking forward to a month full of interesting conversations and
collaborations across our communities and globe.
Best,
Kinneret
[1] https://chi2025.acm.org/
[2] https://www2025.thewebconf.org/
[3] wikiworkshop.org
[4] https://pretix.eu/wikimedia/wikiworkshop2025/
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NLP_for_Wikipedia_(ACL_2025)
--
Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
*Want to learn more about Wikimedia Research? Join us at Wiki Workshop
2025! <https://pretix.eu/wikimedia/wikiworkshop2025/>*
Call for Research & Innovation Papers
SEMANTiCS 2025 EU
21st International Conference on Semantic Systems
Vienna, Austria
September 3 - 5, 2025
Important Dates:
-
*Abstract Submission Deadline: April 25 , 2025 May 16, 2025*
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*Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2025 May 23, 2025*
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*Notification of Acceptance: June 13, 2025 June 27, 2025*
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*Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: July 04, 2025 July 15, 2025*
*All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12)*
*Submissions will be through Easychair and the submission link will be
provided soon.*
Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2025 EU will be made available *open access*.
Research and Innovation Track
The SEMANTiCS 2025 conference is excited to invite submissions for the
Research and Innovation Track, welcoming groundbreaking research
contributions, innovative solutions, and experimental studies relevant to
the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI-enabled semantics. We also
encourage submissions at the intersections of these fields with other
scientific and applied disciplines, fostering cross-disciplinary exchange
and advancement. Papers should present original work that has not been
published or is not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions must
adhere to the submission guidelines, including reference formatting and any
additional documentation as required. Each submission will undergo a
rigorous review process, with at least three independent reviews,
evaluating the novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical
relevance of the work.
Topics of Interest
SEMANTiCS 2025 calls for submissions of high-quality research papers across
a broad spectrum of topics in Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI.
We are particularly interested in new and emerging trends, especially where
semantic technologies intersect with evolving fields such as large language
models, explainable AI, and trustworthy data infrastructures. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
- Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data
- Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management
- Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g.
reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery)
- Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Retrieval-Augmented
Generation (RAG) with knowledge graph integration, generative model
grounding)
- Reasoning, Rules, and Policies on RAG
- Knowledge Engineering and Management (e.g., knowledge acquisition,
extraction, integration, and publication workflows)
- Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering
- Web agents
- Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity
linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia,
foundation models)
- Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs
- Data Quality Management and Assurance
- Mathematical and Logical Foundations of Knowledge-aware AI
- Multimodal Knowledge Graphs (e.g., text, image, audio fusion in graph
structures)
- Semantic-Enhanced Data Science Pipelines and Processes
- Semantics in Blockchain environments (e.g., traceability,
decentralized knowledge representation)
- Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
- Internet of Things (IoT), Stream Processing, and Temporal Data
Management (e.g., real-time semantic processing and predictive analytics)
- Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems powered by Knowledge Graphs
- Provenance and Data Change Tracking (e.g., semantic versioning, data
updates in distributed settings)
- Semantic Interoperability (e.g., cross-domain standards, mapping
frameworks, ontology alignment)
- Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases
- Robust, Scalable, and Fault-Tolerant Semantic Data Systems (e.g.,
distributed querying, optimization)
- User Interfaces and Usability of Semantic Technologies (e.g.,
visualizations, intelligent user interaction)
- Explainable and Interoperable AI
- Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., federated
querying, link traversal)
Applied Semantic Technologies and AI in Real-World Scenarios, such as, but
not limited to:
- Biomedicine and Health (e.g., Knowledge Graphs for biomedical
applications, AI-driven diagnostics, personalized health)
- AI for Environmental and Climate Solutions (e.g., semantic modeling
for environmental impact, biodiversity knowledge graphs)
- Scientific Knowledge Graphs and Open Science (e.g., FAIR data
principles, enhanced scholarly communication)
- Semantic Technologies in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and
Museums)
- Knowledge Graphs and Hybrid AI for Industry 4.0/5.0 and Predictive
Maintenance
- Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Preservation
- Legal Technology, AI Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance (e.g., AI and
legal frameworks, semantic-enabled compliance with the EU AI Act)
- Economics and Governance of Data Ecosystems (e.g., data marketplaces,
semantic service interoperability, data policy)
Submission Guidelines
The Research and Innovation Track at SEMANTiCS 2025 invites both
*long* and *short
paper submissions*.
- *Long papers* should be *12-15 pages* in length (excluding
references). These submissions are expected to present comprehensive,
mature research findings, including in-depth theoretical or practical
insights.
- *Short papers* should be a *maximum of 6 pages* (excluding
references). These submissions can include preliminary findings, innovative
ideas, or position papers that aim to spark discussion and exploration.
References are not included in the page count, so authors may add
additional pages for relevant citations if needed. This flexibility allows
authors to fully reference foundational and related work to strengthen the
context and impact of their research.
- Submissions should follow the guidelines of IOS Press. Details are
available at *https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions*.
<https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions>
- Authors need to use the *Word template*
<https://www.iospress.com/sites/default/files/media/files/2022-06/ECRC-Autho…>
or *LaTeX* <https://vtex-soft.github.io/texsupport.IOS-Book-Article/>
template provided by IOS Press. Overleaf users can copy the project *from
here* <https://www.overleaf.com/read/gkkspcvjgwxv#563836> (follow
instructions in the abstract).
- Abstract submission is mandatory for all papers. To aid the review and
bidding process, we highly encourage authors to submit structured
abstracts.
- All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via
EasyChair.
- Submissions must be in English.
- Submissions must adhere to the fair use of Large Language Models.
Please refer to the SEMANTiCS *full policy*
<https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/llm-policy> for more details.
- Submissions must be anonymous; the reviewing process is double-blind,
but reviewers will be able to disclose their identities if they wish, by
signing their reviews.
- Accepted papers will be published in open access proceedings by IOS
Press, and the text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the
accepted papers will be posted on the conference website and will be
archived on Zenodo as publicly available material.
- At least one author of each accepted paper must present it in person
and therefore register for the conference at the ONSITE rate.
- All authors are strongly suggested to provide optional links to code,
materials, and datasets during the submission process - we will have
specific optional fields in the EasyChair submission form - the review
process will take these into account when provided. To anonymise resources
for the reviewing process, authors can use services like *Anonymous
GitHub* <https://anonymous.4open.science/> or figshare/Zenodo as
described *here*
<https://github.com/dgraziotin/disclose-data-dbr-first-then-opendata?tab=rea…>.
- The Research and Innovation Track will not accept papers that, at the
time of submission, are under review or have already been published in or
accepted for publication in a journal or another conference.
- All authors will have the opportunity to provide an ORKG comparison in
the Open Research Knowledge Graph (*https://orkg.org* <https://orkg.org>)
during the submission process - we will have a specific optional field in
the EasyChair submission form.
Review and Evaluation Criteria
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three Programme Committee
members. The reviewing process is double-blind. However, reviewers can
disclose their identity by signing their reviews and/or adding one of their
persistent identifiers (e.g. their ORCID).
The text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the accepted
papers will be posted on the conference website with the basic
bibliographic metadata of the reviewed submission (i.e. title and authors),
and it will be archived on Zenodo as publicly available material. All the
signed reviews of the accepted papers will be licensed using a Creative
Commons Attribution license (CC-BY, the copyright holder will be the
reviewer), except the anonymous ones that will be released in CC0.
Papers submitted to this track will be evaluated according to the following
criteria:
- Appropriateness
- Originality, novelty, and innovativeness
- Impact of results
- Technical quality of the methods
- Soundness of the evaluation
- Proper comparison to related work
- Clarity and quality of writing
- Reproducibility of results and resources
*We look forward to receiving your contributions!*
Research and Innovation Track Chairs
Blerina Spahiu (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT)
Mehdi Ali (Lamarr Institute & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany)
Kind Regards,
On behalf of the organising committee.
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Dr. Kossi Amouzouvi
ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, TU Dresden
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Estimadxs,
Desde Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedistas de la Universidad de La Plata y
Wikimedistas de Uruguay, presentamos un simposio para el Congreso
Interdisciplinadxs - Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudios Feministas
del Sur [1]
que tendrá lugar los días 18 a 21 de noviembre de 2025 en Montevideo,
Uruguay, solo de manera presencial.
El simposio es “Construcción y organización del conocimiento en los acervos
desde perspectivas feministas y latinoamericanistas”, y se encuentra debajo
del eje de “Información y Comunicación” [2]. Este Simposio es coordinado
con otras personas de América Latina y de otros campos disciplinares, pero
está a nuestro cargo la parte vinculada a proyectos Wikimedia, por lo que
tenemos flexibilidad para decidir la pertinencia de las propuestas.
Las mesas del Simposio vinculadas a Wikimedia deben de todas maneras
abordar algún aspecto que vincula Wikimedia con conocimientos poco
representados, perspectivas feministas y subalternas, entre otros.
Queremos invitarles a que presenten propuestas para las mesas. La recepción
de resúmenes finaliza el 11 de mayo de 2025. Para enviar su propuesta,
pueden enviarla a través de la convocatoria a propuestas
<https://interdisciplinadascongreso.uy/convocatoria-a-resumenes-de-ponencias/>
[3]. No contamos con financiamiento para garantizar participación en las
actividades presenciales, pero podemos escribirles cartas de invitación que
justifiquen su presencia en la actividad ante sus unidades académicas.
Además, el Congreso emitirá certificados formales de participación.
Agradecemos la difusión de este correo entre personas que puedan estar
interesadas, y quedamos a disposición para conversar individualmente con
las personas interesadas sobre propuestas potenciales que podrían
presentarse para este Simposio, así como otras dudas que pudieran surgir.
Las propuestas pueden enviarse en español o portugués.
Saludos cordiales,
Luisina Ferrante - Wikimedia Argentina
Evelin Heidel - Wikimedistas de Uruguay
Julián Cueto - Wikimedistas de la Universidad de La Plata
[1] https://interdisciplinadascongreso.uy/
[2] https://interdisciplinadascongreso.uy/simposios/
[3]
https://interdisciplinadascongreso.uy/convocatoria-a-resumenes-de-ponencias/
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Hi all,
The April 2025 Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday,
April 16, at 9:30 AM PT / 16:30 UTC. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1744821000>. Our theme this month is
*Motivation
of Wikipedia Editors*.
*We invite you to watch via the YouTube
stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/vl0DpsfnPXY
<https://youtube.com/live/vl0DpsfnPXY?feature=share>.* As always, you can
join the conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live.
Our presentations this month:
Motivating Experts to Contribute to Digital Public Goods: A Personalized
Field Experiment on WikipediaBy *Yan Chen (University of Michigan)*We
conducted a large-scale personalized field experiment to examine how match
quality, recognition, and social impact influence domain experts'
contributions to Wikipedia. Forty-five percent of the experts expressed
willingness to contribute in the baseline condition, while 51% (a 13\%
increase over the baseline) expressed interest when they received a signal
that an article matched their expertise. However, none of the treatments
had a significant effect on actual contributions. Greater actual match
quality between a recommended Wikipedia article and an expert's expertise,
measured by cosine similarity, an expert's reputation and the Wikipedia
article length, were the most important predictors of both contribution
length and quality. These findings suggest that match quality between
volunteers and tasks is critically important in encouraging contributions
to digital public goods, and likely to volunteering in general.
Quantitative Analysis of Zambian Wikipedia Contributions: Assessing
Awareness, Willingness, Motivation, and the Impact of Gamified Leaderboards
and BadgesBy *Lighton Phiri (University of Zambia)*Wikipedia is a widely
recognized and valuable source of information, However, it encounters
persistent challenges in attracting and retaining active contributors. It
is recorded that only 10 people from Zambia contribute and create content
on wikipedia in the month of may 2023. While a large number consumes
Wikipedia content, there is a noticeably low number of Wikipedians that
contribute content on and about Zambia. This paper presents a Facebook
plugin, WikiMotivate, aimed at motivating Zambian Wikipedians to update
pre-existing content, add new entries, and share their natural expertise.
WikiMotivate was implemented as a Facebook plugin that utilizes leaderboard
and badge gamification features to encourage and incentivize active
Wikipedia content contribution. Using a mixed-methods approach, historical
Wikipedia edit histories were used to quantify content contributed by
Zambian Wikipedians. In addition, user surveys were conducted to determine
relative levels of awareness about Wikipedia, willingness to contribute
content on Wikipedia and perceived motivating factors that affect content
contribution on Wikipedia. Furthermore, a Facebook plugin, WikiMotivate,
was implemented in order to be used as a service for motivating potential
Zambian Wikipedians. Finally, in order to determine the most effective
approach, a comparative analysis of leader-boards and badges was conducted
with nine (9) expert evaluators. The results clearly indicate that a
significant proportion of Wikipedia content on and about Zambia is authored
by Wikipedians from outside Zambia, with only 11% of the contributors, out
of the 224, originating from Zambia. In addition, study participants were
largely unaware of the various editing practices on Wikipedia;
interestingly enough, most participants expressed their willingness to
contribute content if trained. In terms of motivating factors, “Information
Seeking and Educational Fulfillment” was the key motivating factor. The
Facebook plugin implemented suggests that incorporating leaderboards and
badges is a more effective approach to motivating contributions to
Wikipedia. This study provides useful insight into the landscape of
Wikipedia content contribution in the Global South.
[1] https://unza.zm [2] https://datalab.unza.zm [3] https://emi.org.zm
Best,
Kinneret
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Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
*Learn more about Wikimedia Research <https://research.wikimedia.org/>*
Dear Wikimedia Research community,
This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for proposal submissions to
the 2025 Research Fund is next Wednesday, April 16, 2025.
As a reminder, we made some changes to the fund this year, most notably
focusing the funds on supporting applications by established Wikimedia
researchers or established researchers who want to become Wikimedia
researchers, and accepting three types of Research Fund proposals: Research
Proposals (same category as the previous years), Extended Research Proposals
(New, multi-year, with the possibility to ask for more funds), and Event
and Community-Building Proposals (same as the previous years though we are
making it more visible and prominent as a category).
You can find more information about the fund as well as links to the
application forms on Meta-Wiki [1
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Tech…>
]. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out at
research_fund(a)wikimedia.org. We are looking forward to receiving your
proposals.
Best,
Kinneret Gordon (Workflow Chair)
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Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
*Learn more about Wikimedia Research <https://research.wikimedia.org/>*
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Tech…
Call for Industry & Use Case Presentations
The Industry & Use Case track at SEMANTiCS welcomes submissions that
present use cases and industry adoption of semantic technology. Solutions
that deal with semantic processing of data and/or information in areas like
Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning,
Data Publishing, Thesaurus and/or Ontology management, and any related
fields. All submissions have a strong focus on real world applications
beyond the prototypical status and demonstrate the power of semantic
systems!
*Important dates*
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*Submission Deadline:* May 14, 2025 (11:59 pm)
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*Notification of Acceptance:* June 13, 2025 (11:59 pm)
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*Presentation Ready:* August 18, 2025 (11:59 pm)
All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12)
*Submission via Easychair on*
*https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025*
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025>. Please notice that
a paper abstract is not necessary, as your submission will only include a
presentation at SEMANTiCS and not a paper. Any submission should contain a
summary of 200 to 300 words that will be used in the final program. Your
submission must also include a full page description of the use case you
want to present, in particular: initial situation, approach, business value
and benefits of the semantic solution, prospects and recommendation.
Submissions that don’t meet these requirements cannot be taken into account.
Via Easychair, you can enter your summary in the field “Abstract”, and the
full page description via the “upload paper” button. The summary will
appear in the program on the webpage, the full page description will only
be used in the selection process.
*Topics of Interest*
SEMANTiCS 2025 especially invites contributions that target the following
main topics in the context of semantic-based research and systems as well
as applicative domains.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Large Language Models (LLM) combined with Knowledge Graphs
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Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management
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Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g.
reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery)
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Knowledge Management (e.g. acquisition, capture, extraction, authoring,
integration, publication)
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Reasoning, rules and policies
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Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data
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Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs
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Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs
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Semantics in Data Science
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Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
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Authentication of knowledge graphs
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IoT and Stream Processing, Linked Data Event Streams
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Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems
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Provenance and Data Change Tracking
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Semantic Interoperability (via mapping, crosswalks, standards, etc.)
*Author Guidelines and Submission*
-
This call for presentations reaches out to professionals in the areas
related to the topics of SEMANTiCS for proposals to present industry
implementations, best practices and use case prototypes, to discuss
semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions as well as informal
settings. Additionally, we explicitly encourage the submission of software
applications, apps or services that demonstrate the usefulness and benefits
of semantic technologies and semantic data management.
-
To contribute a submission for a presentation at SEMANTiCS 2025 please
prepare the following: Fill out the online application at Easychair and
give us relevant information about your expertise and your professional
background.
-
Please notice that a paper abstract is not necessary, as your submission
will only include a presentation at SEMANTiCS and not a paper. Any
submission should contain a summary of 200 to 300 words that will be used
in the final program. Your submission must also include a full page
description of the use case you want to present, iIn particular: initial
situation, approach, business value and benefits of the semantic solution,
prospects and recommendation. Submissions that don’t meet these
requirements cannot be taken into account.
-
Via Easychair, you can enter your summary in the field “Abstract”, and
the full page description via the “upload paper” button. The summary will
appear in the program on the webpage, the full page description will only
be used in the selection process.
-
All accepted submissions will be granted a presentation slot at the main
conference. Please stick to this time pattern when preparing your talk.
This is the only way we can guarantee a smooth and satisfying programme and
allow all conference participants to attend as many slots as possible
without missing important information.
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Submissions must adhere to the fair use of Large Language Models. Please
refer to the SEMANTiCS full policy for more details:
https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/llm-policy
When your submission is accepted and you are preparing your talk, please
take care to address the following aspects:
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*Initial Situation *What kind of challenge did you face in the beginning of
the project? What problems needed to be solved?
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*Approach and IT-Solution *Which approach and methodology has been chosen
to tackle the problem(s)? How is your solution composed with respect to
technological aspects / human aspects / organisational aspects? How do the
semantic components support the process from data to knowledge?
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*Success Criteria for / Benefit of the Semantic Solution *Which factors
(conscious and unconscious) have been crucial to the success of your
project? Which obstacles did you face? How can you measure the benefit of
your solution? How does the organisation benefit from your solution?
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*Prospects and Recommendations *What are the next steps planned in your
project? Can you give recommendations with respect to development /
deployment of semantic solutions within organisational / corporate settings?
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*Demo (if applicable) *Prepare a short demonstration of your tool / service.
*Review and Evaluation Criteria*
Every submission will be reviewed by the Programme Committee.
Submissions to this track will be evaluated according to the following
criteria:
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Your presentation is relevant to industry and industrial purposes. It
illustrates how semantic technologies / solutions contribute to or improve
existing businesses and / or generate new ones.
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The presented solution has already been deployed and / or has been
tested in a practical environment – at least prototypically.
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Your presentation is well-structured and does bring across its message.
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The topic is well described and covers enough explanations, examples,
use cases, graphics, etc.
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Novelty: The topic covered is new to your industry – not necessarily new
to business in general
In case your presentation will be accepted, we will provide you with
detailed information on organisational matters according to the selection
of submissions and conference participation.
We are looking forward to your contribution!
Marco Brattinga
Artem Revenko
*Industry & Use Case Track Chairs*
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