Hi,
I have a couple of questions regarding the Wiki Page ID. Does it always
stay unique for the page, where the page itself is just a placeholder for
any kind of information that might change over time?
Consider the following cases:
1. The first time someone creates page "Moon" it is assigned ID=1. If at
some point the page is renamed to "The_Moon", the ID=1 remains intact. Is
this correct?
2. What if we have page "Moon" with ID=1. Someone creates a second-page
"The_Moon" with ID=2. Is it possible that page "Moon" is transformed into a
redirect? Then, "Moon" would be redirecting to page "The_Moon"?
3. Is it possible for page "Moon" to become a category "Category:Moon" with
the same ID=1?
Thanks,
Gintas
Hello everyone,
I'd like to ask if Wikidata could please offer a HDT [1] dump along with the already available Turtle dump [2]. HDT is a binary format to store RDF data, which is pretty useful because it can be queried from command line, it can be used as a Jena/Fuseki source, and it also uses orders-of-magnitude less space to store the same data. The problem is that it's very impractical to generate a HDT, because the current implementation requires a lot of RAM processing to convert a file. For Wikidata it will probably require a machine with 100-200GB of RAM. This is unfeasible for me because I don't have such a machine, but if you guys have one to share, I can help setup the rdf2hdt software required to convert Wikidata Turtle to HDT.
Thank you.
[1] http://www.rdfhdt.org/
[2] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/
Hey everyone :)
We are working with researchers from the University of Erfurt on a
project called FactGrid. The goal is to build a wiki for researchers
to collect data related to their research. It will use Wikibase as the
underlying technology, just like Wikidata. We'll start with data
related to the Illuminati based on the Gothaer Illuminati Research
Database. You can find blog posts with more details and musings here:
https://blog.factgrid.de I started a page on Wikidata about it here:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:FactGrid
My hope is that this will be one of the many Wikibase installations in
Wikidata's ecosystem in the future that is highly connected with
Wikidata and that Wikidata can partially import data from where wanted
and needed.
There will be a kick-off workshop at Wikimedia Deutschland's office in
Berlin on the 1st and 2nd of December. It'd be great if we have a few
more people there who want to drive this project forward and can help
with their experience on Wikidata. If you'd like to attend please let
me know. Details about the workshop are here:
https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/159
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
While wishing you a happy and prosperous new year, we would like to add
some important dates to your calendar for the new year.
Get ready for the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018)!
Monterey, California (USA), from October 8-12, 2018
ISWC is the premier venue for presenting innovative systems and research
results related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data, attracting a large
number of high quality submissions every year and participants from both
industry and academia. ISWC brings together researchers from different
areas, such as artificial intelligence, databases, natural language
processing, information systems, human computer interaction, information
retrieval, web science, etc., who investigate, develop and use novel
methods and technologies for accessing, interpreting and using information
on the Web in a more effective way.
Website: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/InternationalSemanticWebConference
Twitter: @iswc2018 (https://twitter.com/iswc2018)
In this announcement:
1. Keynote Speakers
2. Important Dates
1.Keynote Speakers
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ISWC 2018 is delighted to confirm the following keynote speakers:
* Jennifer Golbeck (University of Maryland, USA)
* Natasha Noy (Google, USA)
* Vanessa Evers (University of Twente, Netherlands)
More information coming soon:
http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/speakers/
2. Important Dates
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Workshop & Tutorial proposals January 21, 2018
Workshop & Tutorial proposals notifications February 15, 2018
Abstracts (Research, In-use, Resource tracks) March 30, 2018
Papers (Research, In-use, Resource tracks) April 6, 2018
Doctoral Consortium submissions April 13, 2018
Author rebuttal phase (Research, In-use, Resource tracks) May 7-11, 2018
Doctoral Consortium notifications May 14, 2018
Paper notifications (Research, In-use, Resource tracks) May 25, 2018
Doctoral Consortium camera-ready submissions May 28, 2018
Industry papers June 1, 2018
Workshop papers June 1, 2018
End of Early Registration period June 1, 2018
Poster & Demo submissions June 8, 2018
Camera-ready papers (Research, In-use, Resource tracks) June 15, 2018
Industry papers notifications June 22, 2018
Poster & Demo notifications sent July 13, 2018
Workshop papers notifications July 13, 2018
End of Standard Registration period July 15, 2018
Industry camera-ready papers July 20, 2018
Poster & Demo camera-ready submissions July 24, 2018
Workshops & Tutorials October 8-9, 2018
Conference October 10-12, 2018
Happy holidays!
The ISWC Organising Committee
(http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/organization/)
Hi!
Search Platform team would like to present a prototype test site of new
and improved Wikidata fulltext search:
http://wikidata-wdsearch.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Search
Please try your favorite searches on it and report whether it looks good
and which problems you notice.
Important to note for this prototype:
- The data in the search is imported from Wikidata index but not updated
from it after import, so it may be slightly out of date
- The search is in English by default but you can try other languages by
using uselang parameter, e.g.:
http://wikidata-wdsearch.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?search=Wien&title=Special:…
Note that since it's a test site, this is probably the best way to test
non-English searches as logins etc. may not work there properly.
- Search would work properly only for main & property namespace (0 and
120).
What kind of problems we are looking for?
- Ranking and retrieval problems, i.e. result X appears too low or too
high in specific search, or does not appear at all (please tell us
specific search query and expected result)
- UI problems - i.e. the ranking is fine but highlighting or label or
description is broken or look bad, or not highlighting the result that
should be highlighted
Of course, if some search result worked spectacularly better for you, it
would be nice to know too :)
What should work?
Any search in Special:Search in main namespace and Property namespace
should produce sensible result. Searches without advanced syntax should
have better results than before, and search with advanced syntax (+, -,
*, quotes, etc.) should work no worse than before.
Please note that this is a test wiki, so nothing else but search is
expected to work, including clicking on other links, editing, browsing
to other pages, etc. This is also a test site, so short disruptions
might be possible when we update or change things or fix bugs reported
by you :)
How to provide feedback?
Several ways are possible:
- Reply to this list or personally to me if you prefer
- On-wiki message on my talk page:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Smalyshev_(WMF)
- Talk to us on IRC: #wikimedia-discovery
Thanks!
--
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org
This is an announcement of the ISWC 2018 call for papers and proposals
Website: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/InternationalSemanticWebConference
Twitter: @iswc2018 (https://twitter.com/iswc2018)
Important dates: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/important-dates/
In this announcement:
1. Call for Papers
2. Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
1. Call for Papers
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Call for Research Track Papers
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The International Semantic Web Conference is the premier venue for
presenting fundamental research, innovative technology, and applications
concerning semantics, data, and the Web.
In this track of ISWC 2018, we are looking for novel and significant
research contributions addressing theoretical, analytical and empirical
aspects of the Semantic Web. While we welcome work that relates to the W3C
Semantic Web recommendations (e.g., RDF, OWL, SPARQL, etc.), we also
encourage contributions to research at the intersection of Semantic Web and
other scientific disciplines. Submissions to the research track should
describe original, significant, and replicable research on the Semantic
Web. All papers must include method evaluations that are rigorous,
repeatable and reproducible. This will be one of the key paper reviewing
criteria. We also strongly encourage papers that provide links to the data
sets, source code, queries used to evaluate their approach, and/or live
deployments.
All papers will be assessed by a program committee. Each paper will be
reviewed by at least four committee members, including one senior member.
The review criteria used are outlined below.
Before submitting, authors are asked to consult the calls of the other
tracks featured at ISWC 2018 and to choose the track that best suits their
contribution. The submission of the same work to multiple tracks is not
allowed and may result in a rejection of the work across all tracks without
a review.
Detailed info:
http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/call-for-research-track-papers/
Program Chairs
* Denny Vrandecic, Google, USA
* Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
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Call for In-Use Track Papers
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Since their debut in the scientific community at the break of the
millennium, Semantic Web technologies have moved from being adopted in
small-scale academic prototypes to being employed in real-world settings in
industry and governments at different scales. The “In Use” Track at ISWC’18
continues the tradition of demonstrating and learning from the increasing
adoption of Semantic Web technologies outside the boundaries of research
institutions, by providing a forum for the community to explore the
benefits and challenges of applying these technologies in concrete,
practical applications, in contexts ranging from industry to government and
science.
Therefore, we are looking for descriptions of applied and validated
solutions such as software tools, systems or architectures that benefit
from the use of Semantic Web technologies (including, but not limited to,
ontologies, Linked Data, knowledge representation languages). Importantly,
submitted papers should provide convincing evidence that there is use of
the proposed application or tool by the target user group, preferably
outside the group that conducted the development. A main focus of the
submissions should be on the benefits of Semantics Web technologies for the
intended use case, as well as, if relevant, on the added challenges they
introduce.
Before submitting to the In-Use Track, authors are asked to consult the
calls of the other tracks featured at ISWC 2018 and to choose the track
that best suits their contribution. The submission of the same work to
multiple tracks is not allowed and may result in a rejection of the work
across all tracks without a review.
Detailed info: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/call-for-in-use-track-papers/
Program Chairs
* Irene Celino, Cefriel, Italy
* Marta Sabou, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
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Call for Resources Track Papers
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Resources are of paramount importance as they foster scientific
advancement. For example, the DBpedia resource had a major influence on the
Semantic Web community by enabling the Linked (Open) Data movement.
Validating a research hypothesis or providing answers to a research
question often goes together with developing new resources that support
these achievements. These resources include, among others, datasets,
benchmarks, workflows, and software. Sharing them is key to allow other
researchers to compare new results, reproduce experimental settings and
explore new lines of research, in accordance with the FAIR principles for
scientific data management. Yet, resources themselves rarely get the same
recognition as the scientific advances they facilitate.
The ISWC 2018 Resources Track aims to promote the sharing of resources
including, but not restricted to: datasets, ontologies, vocabularies,
ontology design patterns, evaluation benchmarks or methods, services, APIs
and software frameworks, workflows, crowdsourcing task designs, protocols
and metrics, that have contributed to the generation of novel scientific
work. In particular, we encourage the sharing of such resources following
best and well established practices within the Semantic Web community. This
track calls for contributions that provide a concise and clear description
of a resource and its usage.
A typical Resource track paper has its focus set on reporting on one of the
following categories of resources:
* Datasets produced: to support specific evaluation tasks; to support novel
research methods; by novel algorithms;
* Ontologies, vocabularies and ontology design patterns, with a focus on
describing the modelling process underlying their creation;
* Benchmarking activities focusing on datasets and algorithms for
comprehensible and systematic evaluation of existing and future systems;
* Reusable research prototypes / services supporting a given research
hypothesis;
* Community shared software frameworks that can be extended or adapted to
support scientific study and experimentation;
* Scientific and experimental workflows used and reused in practical
studies;
* Crowdsourcing task designs that have been used and can be (re)used for
building resources such as gold standards and the like;
* Protocols for conducting experiments and studies;
* Novel evaluation methodologies and metrics, and their demonstration in an
experimental study.
Detailed info:
http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/call-for-resources-track-papers/
Program Chairs
* Valentina Presutti, STLab-ISTC, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche –
Rome, Italy
* Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, OEG (Ontology Engineering Group),
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain
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Important Dates for Paper Submissions
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Abstracts due March 30, 2018
Full papers due April 6, 2018
Author rebuttals May 7-11, 2018
Notifications May 25, 2018
Camera-ready papers due June 15, 2018
Conference October 10-12, 2018
All deadlines are midnight Hawaii time.
2. Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
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In addition to the regular research program, ISWC 2018 will feature a
workshop and tutorial program addressing the diverse interests of its
audience.
We hereby invite you to submit a tutorial proposal on a topic relevant to
the ISWC 2018 audience.
Detailed info: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/call-for-tutorial-proposals/
Besides tutorials, ISWC will host a number of workshops on topics related
to the general theme of the conference. The role of the workshops is to
provide a context for a focused and intensive scientific exchange among
researchers interested in a particular topic. As such, workshops are the
primary venues for the exploration of emerging ideas as well as for the
discussion of novel aspects of established research topics.
We invite you to submit a proposal for workshops on a topic of interest to
ISWC attendees.
Detailed info: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/call-for-workshop-proposals/
Workshops & Tutorials Chairs
* Amrapali Zaveri, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
* Elena Demidova, L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universität Hannover,
Hannover, Germany
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Workshop & Tutorial proposals January 21, 2018
Workshop & Tutorial proposals notifications February 15, 2018
Workshop paper submissions due June 1, 2018
Workshop paper notifications sent July 13, 2018
Workshops & Tutorials October 8-9, 2018
Conference October 10-12, 2018
All deadlines are midnight Hawaii time.
The ISWC Organising Committee
(http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/organization/)
Hello all,
You may have heard about the Wikidata Concept Monitor
<http://wdcm.wmflabs.org/> (WDCM) website, a tool full of statistics about
Wikidata's content and usage. It was released for the 5th birthday
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fifth_Birthday> by Goran
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:GoranSM>, data scientist in the
Wikidata team.
A new board is now available on the platform: the Geo Dashboard
<http://wdcm.wmflabs.org/WDCM_GeoDashboard/>. It creates a map of the 1000
most used items in several semantic categories: museums, libraries, art
galleries, universities, botanical gardens, etc. The usage of the items
being the count of the number of pages in the Wikimedia projects where the
Wikidata item is used.
[image: Inline images 1]
*Example: Map of the 1000 libraries in Wikidata that are most used in the
Wikimedia projects*
Feel free to have a look at this board and the others, check the
documentation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_Concepts_Monitor> and ask
any questions if you have some. You can also suggest other categories that
you would like to see represented on the Geo Dashboard.
Cheers,
--
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Dear Users,
I thank you for your efforts. The Call for proposals for WikiIndaba 2018, the 3rd African Wikimedia community conference is now open. If you want to participate and share your experience, tools, skills, knowledge, opinions or ideas with mostly active African wikimedians, please submit your proposals to https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Submissions. The deadline for that is January 15th.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki
Sorry for x-posting!
Please consider submitting a paper to our session E07 until midnight CET on February 14th, 2018.
https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6257
Happy holidays!
Katja, Guillén, Stefania
After Data Activism: reactions to civil society's engagement with data
Convenors
* Guillén Torres (University of Amsterdam)
* Katja Mayer (Technical University Munich)
* Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam)
Short abstract
This panel focuses on data practices that hinder rather than foster civil society's political engagement. We invite you to discuss how data governance, data science and social technologies are co-producing asymmetries of power.
Long abstract
By foregrounding the constitutive power of information to shape social reality (Braman, 2006), recent approaches to datafication have highlighted data's active role in configuring new ways of engaging politically with -while dissolving the barriers between- public policy, economy, science, nature and culture (Milan & van der Velden, 2016). Thus, the term data activism has been used to study practices in which data plays a crucial role in shaping civil society's agenda, in particular when taking action against governmental or corporate practices of injustice or misinformation. Today, various actors embrace the "data as new oil" metaphor and we even witness multiple forms of "open-washing" of politics and economies (e.g. transparency). Other actors however, have lately shown reluctance to support civic engagement with data, implementing strategies of information control at different scales: from the enactment of government-wide policies that make difficult access to data, to recurrent denials of information requests, passing by the wilful production of the opaqueness of Automated Decision Making or scoring systems.
This panel focuses on how certain actors are taking advantage of information's capacity to shape social reality, with a special focus on data practices that resist rather than foster citizens' political engagement. We invite you to discuss how mechanisms of information control produce and sustain asymmetries of power, often in complicity with data science and social technologies. We further welcome contributions focused on experiences with data activism through the mobilisation of open data and public sector information, or dealing with the political aftermath of data-driven projects.
Dr. Katja Mayer
Post-doctoral research fellow
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Computational Social Science and Big Data
Bavarian School of Public Policy
Technical University of Munich
Richard-Wagner-Str. 1
80333 Munich GERMANY
http://www.katjamayer.net/
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Newly published:
Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval 2nd ed. (M. Lupu, K. Mayer, N.Kando, A. Trippe)
Springer Information Retrieval Series