Hi all,
We have an opening for a 3-year postdoc at King's College London on Knowledge Graphs for Music and its cultural context. The position is funded by the upcoming EU H2020 awarded project Polifonia.
See further details below. Please apply by *5 Jan 2021* at https://jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/job/011327/Research-Associate-in-Informatics <https://jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/job/011327/Research-Associate-in-Informatics>
Forward any questions to: albert.merono(a)kcl.ac.uk <mailto:albert.merono@kcl.ac.uk>
I would very much appreciate if you could help advertise the call via your networks and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/albertmeronyo/status/1337291026537488384 <https://twitter.com/albertmeronyo/status/1337291026537488384>
Best regards,
Albert
Job description
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We are seeking to appoint a postdoctoral research fellow with an excellent track record in Knowledge Graphs (KG). Topics of interest in this area include, but are not limited to, semantic web, ontology engineering, automated KG construction, reasoning, link discovery & KG completion, efficient KG storage, and KG access (APIs). The successful candidate will contribute to Polifonia, a collaborative project between King’s College London and 10 other European partners, funded by the European Commission (H2020). The successful candidate will join the Distributed AI (DAI) group and the Trusted Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub in the Department of Informatics, King’s College London.
The goal of Polifonia is to realise an ecosystem of computational methods and tools supporting discovery, extraction, encoding, interlinking, classification, exploration of, and access to, musical heritage knowledge on the Web. European musical heritage is a dynamic historical flow of experiences, leaving heterogeneous traces that are difficult to capture, connect, access, interpret, and valorise. Computing technologies have the potential to shed a light on this wealth of resources by extracting, materialising and linking new knowledge from heterogeneous sources, hence revealing facts and experiences from hidden voices of the past. Polifonia makes this happen by building novel ways of inspecting, representing, and interacting with digital content. Polifonia focuses on European Musical Heritage, intended as musical contents and artefacts - or music objects - (tunes, scores, melodies, notations, etc.) along with relevant knowledge about them such as: their links to tangible objects (theatres, conservatoires, churches, etc.), their cultural and historical contexts, opinions and stories told by people having diverse social and artistic roles (scholars, writers, musicians, politicians, journalists, etc), and facts expressed in different styles and disciplines (memoire, reportage, news, biographies, reviews), different languages (English, Italian, French, Spanish, and German), and across centuries.
The post holder will work closely with dr. Albert Meroño Peñuela, the co-investigator, and project partners at the Open University (dr. Enrico Daga) and the University of Bologna (prof. Valentina Presutti). The candidate will play a leading role in developing and testing, with a focus on European musical heritage: ontologies and KG for music objects; methods for KG construction, completion and linking; and methods for KG storage and access (APIs). The candidate will also support partners in designing ontologies and KG for musical contexts, licensing and ownership (i.e. provenance). The candidate is also expected to participate in the project pilots and scientific reporting (papers and deliverables).
Key responsibilities
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The post holder will work closely with dr. Albert Meroño Peñuela, the co-investigator, and project partners at the Open University (dr. Enrico Daga) and the University of Bologna (prof. Valentina Presutti). The candidate will play a leading role in developing and testing, with a focus on European musical heritage: ontologies and KG for music objects; methods for KG construction, completion and linking; and methods for KG storage and access (APIs). The candidate will also support partners in designing ontologies and KG for musical contexts, licensing and ownership (i.e. provenance). The candidate is also expected to participate in the project pilots and scientific reporting (papers and deliverables).
- Lead the development of methods, software and datasets that fulfil the goals and requirements as specified in the project
- Support the project partners in fulfilling their goals and requirements as specified in the project
- Communicate the scientific achievements in project deliverables and scientific papers, engaging in advanced research
- Undertake any other reasonable duties that may be requested by the co-investigator
The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.
Skills, knowledge, and experience
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Essential criteria
- a PhD awarded in Computer Science or related subject [or near completion]
- Semantic web
- Ontology engineering
- Automated KG construction
- Reasoning
- Link discovery & KG completion
- Embedding-based KG methods
- Efficient KG storage
- KG access methods and APIs
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the domain of European musical heritage
- Knowledge of Italian, French, Spanish, or German (in addition to English)
Open access journal Electronics, special issue titled “Open Source Software
in Learning Environments”, including “Best practices of open collaboration
for online education” topic. The submission deadline is 31 May 2021, and
papers may be submitted immediately or at any point until 31 May 2021, as
papers will be published on an ongoing basis.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Open source software in education;
Technology-enhanced learning based on open systems;
Best practices of open collaboration for online education;
Challenges for the adoption of open source solutions in educational
contexts;
Smart open source environments and educational trends;
Open source methodologies and ICT education;
Case studies of education based on open communities;
Open source and inclusive learning;
The role of open technologies in educational digital divide."
Please check detailed information about this special issue at the following
link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/open_source_software
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Dear all,
We are proud to announce DBpedia Archivo (https://archivo.dbpedia.org)
an augmented ontology archive and interface to implement FAIRer
ontologies. Each ontology is rated with 4 stars measuring basic FAIR
features. We discovered 890 ontologies reaching on average 1.95 out of 4
stars. Many of them have no or unclear licenses and have issues w.r.t.
retrieval and parsing.
# Community action on individual ontologies
We would like to call on all ontology maintainers and consumers to help
us increase the average star rating of the web of ontologies by fixing
and improving its ontologies. You can easily check an ontology at
https://archivo.dbpedia.org/info. If you are an ontology maintainer just
release a patched version - archivo will automatically pick it up 8
hours later. If you are a user of an ontology and want your consumed
data to become FAIRer, please inform the ontology maintainer about the
issues found with Archivo.
The star rating is very basic and only requires fixing small things.
However, theimpact on technical and legal usability can be immense.
# Community action on all ontologies (quality, FAIRness, conformity)
Archivo is extensible and allows contributions to give consumers a
central place to encode their requirements. We envision fostering
adherence to standards and strengthening incentives for publishers to
build a better (FAIRer) web of ontologies.
1.
SHACL (https://www.w3.org/TR/shacl/, co-edited by DBpedia’s CTO D.
Kontokostas) enables easy testing of ontologies. Archivo offers free
SHACL continuous integration testing for ontologies. Anyone can
implement their SHACL tests and add them to the SHACL library on
Github. We believe that there are many synergies, i.e. SHACL tests
for your ontology are helpful for others as well.
2.
We are looking for ontology experts to join DBpedia and discuss
further validation (e.g. stars) to increase FAIRness and quality of
ontologies. We are forming a steering committee and also a PC for
the upcoming Vocarnival at SEMANTiCS 2021. Please message
hellmann(a)informatik.uni-leipzig.de
<mailto:hellmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>if you would like to
join. We would like to extend the Archivo platform with relevant
visualisations, tests, editing aides, mapping management tools and
quality checks.
# How does Archivo work?
Each week Archivo runs several discovery algorithms to scan for new
ontologies. Once discovered Archivo checks them every 8 hours. When
changes are detected, Archivo downloads and rates and archives the
latest snapshot persistently on the DBpedia Databus.
# Archivo's mission
Archivo's mission is to improve FAIRness (findability, accessibility,
interoperability, and reusability) of all available ontologies on the
Semantic Web. Archivo is not a guideline, it is fully automated,
machine-readable and enforces interoperability with its star rating.
- Ontology developers can implement against Archivo until they reach
more stars. The stars and tests are designed to guarantee the
interoperability and fitness of the ontology.
- Ontology users can better find, access and re-use ontologies.
Snapshots are persisted in case the original is not reachable anymore
adding a layer of reliability to the decentral web of ontologies.
Let’s all join together to make the web of ontologies more reliable and
stable,
Johannes Frey, Denis Streitmatter, Fabian Götz, Sebastian Hellmann and
Natanael Arndt
Paper: https://svn.aksw.org/papers/2020/semantics_archivo/public.pdf
Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours on 2020-12-01 at 17:00-18:00 PM UTC (9am PT/6pm CET).
To participate, join the video-call via this Wikimedia-meet link [2]. There
is no set agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the
etherpad [3] (You can do this after you join the meeting, too.), otherwise
you are welcome to also just hang out. More detailed information (e.g.
about how to attend) can be found here [4].
Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves more available to
answer some of the research related questions that you as Wikimedia
volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in
your projects and initiatives. Some example cases we hope to be able to
support you in:
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You have a specific research related question that you suspect you
should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t
know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it.
For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors
in my wiki?
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You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia
contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to
improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be
harder to find an answer for during an office hour, however, discussing
them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to
work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future.
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You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation
does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates:
if you are interested in building relationships with the academic
institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn
more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of
Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those
of you interested more closely in this space.
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You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].
Hope to see many of you,
Martin (WMF Research Team)
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html
[2] https://meet.wmcloud.org/ResearchOfficeHours
[3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
[5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html
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Hi everyone,
We’re preparing for the November 2020 research newsletter and looking for
contributors. Please take a look at
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN202011 and add your name next to any
paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication time is November
29 ca. 14:00 UTC. If you can't make this deadline but would like to cover a
particular paper in the subsequent issue, leave a note next to the paper's
entry below. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most
welcome.
*Highlights from this month:*
- A general method for estimating the prevalence of
Influenza-Like-Symptoms with Wikipedia data
- Deriving Geolocations in Wikipedia
- Edit Wars in a Contested Digital City: Mapping Wikipedia’s Uneven
Augmentations of Berlin
- Extracting N-ary Facts from Wikipedia Table Clusters
- Is Wikipedia succeeding in reducing gender bias? Assessing changes in
gender bias in Wikipedia using word embedding
- Modelling User Behavior Dynamics with Embeddings
- Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals
in Wikipedia
- Neural Relation Extraction on Wikipedia Tables for Augmenting
Knowledge Graphs
- Neural Relation Extraction on Wikipedia Tables for Augmenting
Knowledge Graphs
- NwQM: A neural quality assessment framework for Wikipedia
- Spontaneous versus interaction-driven burstiness in human dynamics:
The case of Wikipedia edit history
- Structured Knowledge: Have we made progress? An extrinsic study of KB
coverage over 19 years
- The Hidden Costs of Requiring Accounts: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
From Peer Production
- Using Natural Language Generation to Bootstrap Missing Wikipedia
Articles: A Human-centric Perspective
- Wikipedia Edit-a-thons as Sites of Public Pedagogy
- Wikipedia: A Challenger's Best Friend? Utilising Information-seeking
Behaviour Patterns to Predict US Congressional Elections
- Women's representation and voice in media coverage of the coronavirus
crisis
*Masssly and Tilman Bayer*
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter
[2] WikiResearch (@WikiResearch) | Twitter
<https://twitter.com/WikiResearch>
Apologies for cross-posting
Over the last year, the DBpedia core team has consolidated great amount
of technology around DBpedia. This tutorial targets developers (in
particular of DBpedia Chapters) that wish to learn how to replicate
local infrastructure such as loading and hosting an own SPARQL endpoint.
A core focus will also be the new DBpedia Stack, which contains several
dockerized applications that are automatically loading data from the
DBpedia databus. The third tutorial will be held on December 8, 2020 at
17:30 CET and it will cover the following topics:
- Using Databus collections (Download)
- Creating customized Databus collections
- Uploading data to the Databus
- Using collections in Databus-ready Docker applications
- Creating dockerized applications for the DBpedia Stack
#Quick Facts
- Web URL: https://wiki.dbpedia.org/tutorials/3rd-dbpedia-stack-tutorial
- When: December 8, 2020 at 17:30-18:30 CET
- Where: The tutorial will be organized online.Registration is required
though.
- Databus: https://databus.dbpedia.org/
#Registration
Attending the DBpedia Stack tutorial is free. Registration is required
though. After the registration for the event, you will receive an email
with more instructions. Please register here to be part of the meeting:
https://wiki.dbpedia.org/tutorials/3rd-dbpedia-stack-tutorial
#Organisation
- Milan Dojchinovski, AKSW/KILT, DBpedia Association
- Jan Forberg, AKSW/KILT, DBpedia Association
- Julia Holze, InfAI, DBpedia Association
- Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, DBpedia Association
We are looking forward to meeting you online!
With kind regards,
The DBpedia Team
Wikimedians Strengthening Knowledge
and News Credibility on the Internet
https://www.wikicred.org
Hi everyone,
Join us, Wikimedians, and other journalists, professionals, academics from
the credibility space for the second WikiCred Demo Hour on Tuesday,
December 1st at 12 pm EST / 5 pm UTC.
Here's the event agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Blz4OAXypJe8yqMHFt4nQDufan2ZcmTWvHs5uXW…>.
You can sign up
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEpva_wwZA9xIjtTni7-y0tZ_VgXW8nzV…>
here and we will send you a Zoom link a few days before the event.
*About WikiCerd*
"WikiCred" is an initiative by Hacks Hackers and several other partners
such as the Credibility Coalition, MisinfoCon, and Wikimedians interested
in the conversation about credibility and trust in the entire information
ecosystem.
*About WikiCed Demo Hour*
The WikiCred Demo Hour is a regular monthly online meetup that brings
together members of the Wikimedian community, open-data and open-knowledge
enthusiasts, academics, journalists, researchers, and professionals from
the online credibility space and reliable news. Our calls are held on the
first Tuesday of every month, with ongoing discussions on our Slack channel.
Ahmed + WikiCred Team
wikicred.org
Partners <https://www.wikicred.org/#who-we-are> / Projects
<http://wikicred.org/#projects> / Funders <http://wikicred.org/#funders>
Hello, everyone,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, November 18,
at 9:30 AM PST/17:30 UTC, and will be on the theme of interpersonal
communication between editors. Interpersonal communication, for example via
talk pages, plays a crucial role for editors to coordinate their efforts in
online collaborative communities. For this month’s showcase we have invited
2 speakers sharing their research on getting a deeper understanding of
interpersonal communication on Wikipedia. In the first talk, Anna Rader
will give an overview on editors’ communication networks and patterns, and
the different types of dynamics commonly found in the way that users
interact. In the second talk, Sneha Narayan presents recent work
investigating whether easier interpersonal communication leads to enhanced
productivity and newcomer participation across more than 200 wikis.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G35OEDJ53bY
As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
This month's presentations:
Talk before you type - Interpersonal communication on Wikipedia
By Dr Anna Rader, Research Consultant
Formally, the work of Wikipedia’s community of volunteers is asynchronous
and anarchic: around the world, editors labor individually and in
disorganized ways on the collective project. Yet this work is also
underscored by informal and vibrant interpersonal communication: in the
lively exchanges of talk pages and the labor-sharing of editorial networks,
anonymous strangers communicate their intentions and coordinate their
efforts to maintain the world’s largest online encyclopaedia. This working
paper offers an overview of academic research into editors’ communication
networks and patterns, with a particular focus on the role of talk pages.
It considers four communication dynamics of editor interaction:
cooperation, deliberation, conflict and coordination; and reviews key
recommendations for enhancing peer-to-peer communication within the
Wikipedia community.
All Talk - How Increasing Interpersonal Communication on Wikis May Not
Enhance Productivity
By Sneha Narayan, Assistant Professor, Carlton College
What role does interpersonal communication play in sustaining production in
online collaborative communities? This paper sheds light on that question
by examining the impact of a communication feature called "message walls"
that allows for faster and more intuitive interpersonal communication in a
population of wikis on Wikia. Using panel data from a sample of 275 wiki
communities that migrated to message walls and a method inspired by
regression discontinuity designs, we analyze these transitions and estimate
the impact of the system's introduction. Although the adoption of message
walls was associated with increased communication among all editors and
newcomers, it had little effect on productivity, and was further associated
with a decrease in article contributions from new editors. Our results
imply that design changes that make communication easier in a social
computing system may not always translate to increased participation along
other dimensions.
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Paper <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3359203>
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Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear all,
I thank you for your efforts in advancing wikis. Please find below the call for proposals for MozFest 2021.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki
From: Ahmed Medien<mailto:ahmed@hackshackers.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2020 10:52 PM
To: wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikidata] You’re Invited to Submit A Session Proposal for MozFest 2021
Hello,
MozFest is a unique hybrid: part art, tech and society convening, part maker festival, and the premiere gathering for activists in diverse global movements fighting for a more humane digital world.
That’s why I’m excited to invite you <https://www.mozillafestival.org/get-involved/proposals/> and your community to participate in the first-ever virtual MozFest!
Submit A Session Idea for MozFest This Year<https://www.mozillafestival.org/get-involved/proposals/>
I am on the openness space and we're particularly looking forward for open science projects. We’re excited to use the programming that we’ve honed over a decade of festivals – participant-led sessions, immersive art exhibits, space for spontaneous conversations, inspiring Dialogues & Debates – to address current and global crises.
Through our Call for Session Proposals (where you're invited to propose an interactive workshop to host at the festival), we’ll seek solutions together, through the lens of trustworthy artificial intelligence.
Anyone can submit a session – you don’t need any particular expertise, just a great project or idea and the desire to collaborate and learn from festival participants. Since it’s online this year, we’re especially eager to see session proposals from those that haven’t been able to attend in year’s past due to travel restrictions.
If you or someone you know is interested in leading a session at MozFest this year, you can submit your session idea here<https://www.mozillafestival.org/get-involved/proposals/>! The deadline is November 23.
Best regards,
Ahmed Medien