18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019)
“knowledge graphs, linked data, linked schemas and AI on the Web”
Auckland, New Zealand, 26-30 October, 2019
https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/
The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the premier venue for
presenting fundamental research, innovative technology, and applications
concerning semantics, data, and the Web. It is the most important
international venue to discuss and present latest advances and applications
of the semantic Web, knowledge graphs, linked data, ontologies and
artificial intelligence (AI) on the Web.
ISWC attracts 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.
Follow us:
Twitter: @iswc_conf , #iswc_conf ( https://twitter.com/iswc_conf )
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13612370
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ISWConf/
Become part of ISWC 2019 by submitting to the following tracks & activities
or just attend them!
(All deadlines are midnight Hawaii time.)
In this announcement:
1. Call for Workshops
2. Call for Tutorials
3. Call for Semantic Web Challenges
1. Call for Workshops
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Besides the main technical program, ISWC will host several workshops on
topics related to the general theme of the conference. The role of the
workshops is to provide a setting for focused, intensive scientific
exchange among researchers and practitioners interested in a specific
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 research topic of
interest to ISWC attendees.
Further info: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-workshop-proposals/
== Important Dates ==
Proposals deadline: January 18, 2019
Notification: February 15, 2019
== Program Chairs ==
Contact: iswc2019-workshop-tutorial(a)inria.fr
H. Sofia Pinto, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
2. Call for Tutorials
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In addition to the regular research and workshop program, ISWC 2019 will
feature a tutorial program addressing the diverse interests of its
audience: Semantic Web practitioners that wish to learn about new
technologies, novices to the Semantic Web interested in introductory
tutorials to key Semantic Web / Linked Data topics, government and industry
representatives focusing on the applicability of Semantic Web / Linked Data
technologies in practical settings.
We hereby invite you to submit a tutorial proposal on a research topic
relevant to the ISWC 2019 audience.
Further info: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-tutorial-proposals/
== Important Dates ==
Proposals deadline: January 18, 2019
Notification: February 15, 2019
== Program Chairs ==
Contact: iswc2019-workshop-tutorial(a)inria.fr
H. Sofia Pinto, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
3. Call for Semantic Web Challenges
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ISWC 2019 will run multiple Challenges (SWCs) with the aim to evaluate and
compare software solutions for the Semantic Web in a systematic way. Each
SWC will:
* Define a task to be addressed,
* Provide a training and a test dataset and
* Define evaluation measures to compare the performance of participating
systems.
The organizers of each SWC will be responsible for the selection of the
participants who will be invited to present their solutions at ISWC 2019.
For ISWC 2019, SWC proposals are invited for any challenge involving
Semantic Web tasks, including but not limited to:
* Ontology alignment
* Fact checking
* Sentiment and Emotion analysis
* Entity resolution
* Link prediction
* Attribute prediction and validation
* Query and reasoning scalability
* Energy efficiency of computation (e.g. green processing)
* Stream processing
Selected SWC systems will be presented at ISWC 2019 on October 30, 2019.
Further info: https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-workshop-proposals/
== Important Dates ==
Proposals deadline: January 18, 2019
Notification: February 15, 2019
== Program Chairs ==
Contact: iswc2019-challenge(a)inria.fr
Gianluca Demartini, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Valentina Presutti, STLab-ISTC, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
Axel Ngonga, Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany
See you all in Auckland!
The ISWC 2019 Organising Team (
https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/organizing-committee/ )
Dear Wikidata enthusiasts,
I have a huge favor to ask of everyone in this mailing list --
TLDR: *please fill out* *this questionnaire
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttps://goo.gl/forms/WMFb6j2mpG2H…!!>!*
And now in more details:
As some of you may know, I'm a PhD candidate at the School of Education,
Tel Aviv University and my research focuses on Wikidata as a learning
platform.
To succeed in my research, I need lots of data about how users (such as
yourselves) interact with Wikidata, so it would be of great help if you
could take the time to fill out the questionnaire linked above. It's
estimated that it should take between 15-30 minutes, depending on how
detailed your answers would be.
I'm striving for at least 100 replies, but this is one of those cases of
"the more, the merrier", so every person filling it out is of huge help.
Please feel free to ping me privately or send me an email if you have any
questions, or if you are willing to participate in a follow up interview
(there's also an option to mark that in the questionnaire itself).
Thanks in advance for considering filling it out. I will be forever grateful
to anyone who can help and promise to update you on my progress. :)
Cheers,
Shani.
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*Shani Evenstein Sigalov*
EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School
of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
Lecturer, Tel Aviv University.
Chairperson, WikiProject Medicine Foundation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med>.
Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>.
Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society
<http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621>.
Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda <http://bybe.benyehuda.org>.
*+972-525640648*
Hello all,
The Wikimedia hackathon 2019 will take place in Prague, at the National
Library of Technology, on May 17th to 19th.[1]
The registration is now open. Please note that the deadline to apply for a
scholarship is January 4th, 2019. [2]
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2019
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2019/Register_and_Attend
--
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.
Hello all,
the following query ends with a timeot:
SELECT ?istanza_di ?istanza_diLabel WHERE {
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language
"[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
?istanza_di wdt:P31 wd:Q13442814.
}
LIMIT 10
Can anybody explain why ?
Thanks in advance
--
*Fabrizio*
Hi folks.
I think Wikidata needs clearer, explicit norms of behavior. And I think it
needs them now, **before** it's a huge problem.
Please take a moment to read my meta-proposal
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Behavior_norms>[1] and use the talk
page to share your thoughts. I'd like participation to be as broad as
possible, to ensure we get the best outcome for our community. Thanks!
This e-mail is a courtesy notice to get as many people as possible aware of
this discussion. But let's centralize discussion on-wiki, on the talk
page, and not on this list.
Cheers,
A.
[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Behavior_norms
--
Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
https://donate.wikimedia.org
Hello all,
Are you organizing Wikidata presentations, trainings or workshops, or
planning to have one soon? Here are a few pages that can help you:
- Wikidata:Training <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Training>
provides a summary with a few useful links, ideas outline. Feel free to
improve it!
- The related talk page, Wikidata talk:Training
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Training>, aims to be the
central discussion page for everyone interested or experienced in giving
Wikidata trainings. Feel free to ask your questions there, and don't forget
to watch the page and help others with their own questions
- Wikidata:Planning a Wikidata workshop
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Planning_a_Wikidata_workshop>
proposes an example of workshop outline, with suggestions of activities
that you can also improve by adding your own
- The Commons category Wikidata presentations
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_presentations> and
its subcategories are full of previous slides and documents that trainers
used to present Wikidata
- On Wikidata:Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>,
people can add the workshops or sessions that will take place in the near
future. This is also the page that I watch to report the events in the
weekly newsletter
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>, so if you
want to make some noise about your next training, make sure to add it there
:)
If you have any useful links to add, feel free to share them on Wikidata
talk:Training!
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.
Hello all,
After we deployed the Commons miniature pictures for the image properties,
some editors suggested to do something similar with maps. From Wednesday,
December 12th, we will also have a miniature map displayed for the
properties containing coordinates, like coordinate location (P625)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P625>. This feature uses
mw:Extension:Kartographer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Kartographer> and OpenStreetMap.
Viewing the map directly in the item will help the editors to check quickly
if the coordinates seem correct, and therefore improve the data quality.
-
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_Wikidata_map_feature_2.p…>
View in read mode
-
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_Wikidata_map_feature_3.p…>
View in edit mode
-
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_Wikidata_map_feature_1.p…>
Full screen with list of external maps
Some useful features:
- Double-click on the miniature map: display it in full screen
- On full screen view: click on “external maps” to display different map
services and links to many external maps
- In edit mode: when adding or editing coordinates in the field, the
maps is automatically updated to fit the coordinates you entered
- The coordinates are still displayed under the map and link to Geohack
If you have any questions or issues with this feature, let me know. You can
also see the related ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184933>.
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.
Hi everyone,
We are thrilled to announce that the *6th annual Wiki Workshop* [1] will be
hosted at *The Web Conference 2019* (formerly known as WWW) in San
Francisco, CA, on May 13 or 14, 2019 [2]. The workshop provides an annual
forum for researchers exploring all aspects of Wikipedia, Wikidata, and
other Wikimedia projects to present their work. We'd love to have your
contributions, so please take a look at the details in this call:
http://wikiworkshop.org/2019/#call
Please note that *January 31, 2019* is the submission deadline if you want
your paper to appear in the (archival) conference proceedings, and *March
14, 2019* is for all other, non-archival submissions. [3]
Following past year's format, the workshop will include invited talks, a
poster session, as well as offer an opportunity for participants to meet
and discuss future research directions. We look forward to receiving your
submissions and seeing you in San Francisco in May!
Best,
Dario on behalf of the organizers [4]
[image: ww19_banner_www.png]
[1] http://wikiworkshop.org/
[2] https://www2019.thewebconf.org/
[3] http://wikiworkshop.org/2019/#dates
[4] http://wikiworkshop.org/2019/#organization
