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FORCE2018 is coming to Montreal.
Are you a researcher or a librarian? You might be a publisher, or a funder
of research.
Whatever your position, you have an important role to ensure research is
easily found and shared so that everyone can benefit from the latest
results.
The FORCE meeting – this October – is a place where communities come
together.
Register now <https://goo.gl/i2AX9z>
*Save $100US if you register by August 31*
What is FORCE2018?
FORCE2018 is a different conference. It promotes open discussions on an
open future for scholarly communications. It looks beyond the publication
to the needs of all involved in the research enterprise, including the
producers and the users of research.
The wide variety of this year’s talks cover many themes, including
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Open Data, Open Source and Open Scholarship
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Research classification and interdisciplinary research
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New ways to share research results
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Reproducibility
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Community outreach and impact
Sometimes controversial. Often different. Always inspiring.
Why Montreal?
There’s a reason why Montreal is a magnet for students and investors. With
11 universities and a vibrant tech sector, the academic-business connection
is strong and thriving. Artificial intelligence, high tech, gaming,
neuroscience, data-hosting and shared services are just some of the
businesses that have made a home in the largest French-speaking city
outside France. (French is one of Canada’s two official languages and
Montreal is almost fully bilingual). Montreal is also making its mark on
the open science scene. Open science followers will be familiar with
the Tanenbaum
Open Science Institute of the Montreal Neurological Institute
<https://goo.gl/VZuiBP>, the pan-Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform
<https://goo.gl/m8mGzu>, Erudit <https://goo.gl/8gBa6J>, MNI Open Research
<https://goo.gl/XeBisg>, and other leading-edge efforts for open science.
Montreal is a great city. Make sure and take time to explore it.
Join us to learn more
Register now <https://goo.gl/i2AX9z>
Why else should you attend?
What makes the FORCE2018 conference special, and unmissable, is the
opportunity to connect and collaborate with committed people from across
sectors. We may approach things from different perspectives, but we all
care about research.
We all want to realise the benefits of enhanced access to the world’s
knowledge.
So, please join us for three days in fabulous Montreal, Canada and engage
in great conversation.
The FORCE2018 Conference will be held in Montreal, Canada on October 11 &
12, 2018 at the New Residence Conference Center at McGill University.
Pre-conference workshops held on October 10 at Concordia University's
Webster Library. You can check out the full schedule here
<https://goo.gl/u6RBEX>.
Register now <https://goo.gl/i2AX9z>
Thanks! We'll look forward to seeing you there.
On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee
Joanne Clark, Ludmer Centre - McGill University
Jean-Claude Guédon, Université de Montréal
Lorie Kloda, Concordia University
Vincent Larivière, Université de Montréal
Naser Muja, Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform
Jean-Baptiste Poline, McGill University (Local Organizing Committee Lead)
Nikola Stikov, Polytechnique Montréal
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Violeta Ilik
Force11 Board Member
Hello all,
Currently, when adding a new value in the constraints section of a
property, there is no suggestion to fill the value or the qualifier. We’ve
been improving this by a few changes that are going to be deployed this
week.
- When adding a new value in the property constraint statement, a list
of suggestions will be displayed and, all the relevant constraint items
will be showed first. They will be selected among the list of qualifiers
present in the statement “property constraint -> one of constraint”
of property
constraint (P2302) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2302>.
- Of course, you can still type anything you want in the field to find a
value. The full text search has been improved (when typing “none constr”
you will also see “none of constraint” in the suggester)
In a very near future, we will also make the following happen:
- Same behavior for qualifiers inside the constraint statements. The
suggester will pick up the values from “allowed qualifiers constraint”
- When clicking on “add value” in the property constraint statement, a
suggester menu will directly appear (without having to click on the value
field)
The first two changes will appear on wikidata.org on August 30th, the
following ones in the next weeks. Feel free to make some tests, and let us
know if you find a bug or something that doesn’t behave as expected.
Related tickets: phab:T199672 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199672>,
phab:T201288 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201288>.
Thanks,
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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.
Hey folks :)
We have a number of open positions at the moment at WMDE that are
relevant for Wikidata including a program manager for Wikidata who
will work closely with me. I'd love to see many applications from
people who already are a part of the community and understand and love
what makes Wikidata special.
Find the full list including job descriptions here:
https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/de/vacancies
If you have any questions please let me know.
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.
If you Google "Emily Riehl", you will find that Google tells you that she
was born in 1950: this is certainly complete nonsense. Her date of birth
isn't in her Wikipedia article, which is where Google gets its text from,
but turns out to be in her Wikidata entry, having added by Reinheitsgebot,
operated by Magnus Manske. It seems that in May when this and many other
dates were being added by the bot, it was scraping VIAF files and
incorrectly parsing the XML for the Marc21 entry 997, which gives everyone
born in the 20th century an arbtrary "floruit" date of 1950 if not
otherwise available. I have to say that I'm not completely sure about every
detail of this diagnosis -- 997 is not even a standard Marc field, it's
reserved for local use: significant dates such as birth and death are
encoded in field 046. But it is clear that the dates being inserted by the
bot can be completely fictitious. This was reported in May but it seems
that it has not been fixed. As a result Wikidata and hence Google are
delivering an unknown number of incorrect dates of birth.
When you hear the word metadata, do you think of cell phone records, or of a whole world of knowledge waiting to be linked and discovered? Stanford University Libraries and the Linked Data for Production (LD4P) project<http://www.ld4p.org> are seeking someone who is passionate about libraries and about bringing library data to the world, to serve as our Wikimedian-in-Residence.
As a widely used source of structured data, Wikidata has the potential to be a platform for publishing, linking, and enriching library metadata. The Wikimedian-in-Residence will play a key role in enabling the Wikimedia community and the library community to enrich each other’s pool of knowledge.
Alex Stinson, GLAM-Wiki Strategist at the Wikimedia Foundation, explains the importance of this role: "We are seeing a growing body of interest among different library communities, both in North America, Europe, and other parts of the world in figuring out how libraries should be involved in using Wikidata. The LD4P project and this role provide a well-supported environment for creating experiments within the actual central work of research libraries, to figure out what works and doesn't and how technology can be improved to support such collaboration."
Read more and apply for the position here: https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/wikimedian-in-residence-3711
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Michelle Futornick
Linked Data for Production (LD4P) Program Manager
Stanford University
Lathrop Library
Stanford, CA 94305
Dear whomever this concerns,
I was trying to use an ISBN code to reference and source a statement. However, Wikidata does not approve using ISBN as a reference value and demands to create a record of the source material in which one can use the ISBN code as an identifier. I understand that at this point it makes no sense when translated to triples to use the property ISBN as a referencer but was wondering if there shouldn’t be a property “ISBN for source material”? This would make referencing a lot easier and might prevent the cluttering of Wikidata with millions of publications (not even speaking of translated and editions…).
Kind regards,
Olivier
Dear all,
I am happy to announce that as part of an ongoing research collaboration
between TU Dresden researchers and Wikimedia [1], we could now release
pre-processed logs from the Wikidata SPARQL Query Service [2]. You can
find details and download links on the following page:
https://iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Wikidata_SPARQL_Logs/en
The data so far comprises over 200 million queries answered in
June-August 2017. There is also an accompanying publication that
describes the workings of and practical experiences with the SPARQL
query service [3].
The logs have been pre-processed to remove information that could
potentially be used for identifying individual users (e.g., comments
were removed, geo-coordinates coarsened, and query strings reformatted
completely -- see above page for details). Nevertheless, one can still
learn many interesting things from the logs, e.g., which properties and
entities are used in queries, which SPARQL features are most prominent,
or which languages are requested.
We also have preserved some amount of user agent information, but
without overly detailed software versions and only in cases where the
agents occurred many times across several weeks. This can at least be
used to recognise the (significant amount) of queries generated, e.g.,
by Magnus' tools, or to do a rough analysis of which software platforms
are mostly used to send queries from. We used #TOOL comments found in
queries to refine user agent information in some cases.
We also made an effort to identify those queries that come from browser
agents *and* also behave like one would expect from a browser (not all
"browsers" did). We called such queries "organic" and provide this
classification with the logs (there is also a filtered dump of only
organic queries, which is much smaller and therefore nicer to process,
also for testing). See the paper for details on our methodology.
Finally, the data contains the time of each request, so one can
reconstruct query loads over time.
Feedback is very welcome, both in terms of comments on the data (is it
useful to you? would you like to see more? do you have concerns?) and in
terms of insights that you can get from it (we did some analyses but one
can surely do more).
Cheers,
Markus
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Understanding_Wikidata_Queries
[2] https://query.wikidata.org/ (or rather the web service that powers
this UI and many other applications).
[3] Stanislav Malyshev, Markus Krötzsch, Larry González, Julius Gonsior,
Adrian Bielefeldt: Getting the Most out of Wikidata: Semantic Technology
Usage in Wikipedia’s Knowledge Graph. In Proceedings of the 17th
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-18), Springer 2018.
https://iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Wikidata_SPARQL_Logs/en
--
Prof. Dr. Markus Kroetzsch
Knowledge-Based Systems Group
Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed)
Faculty of Computer Science
TU Dresden
+49 351 463 38486
https://kbs.inf.tu-dresden.de/
Hello all,
As previously announced, the sixth birthday of Wikidata will happen around
October 29th, all around the world: local groups, communities, can organize
their own event around Wikidata. Meetup or workshop, talk or editathon, now
is the good time to start thinking about what you want to do.
Wikidata's sixth birthday
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday> and its talk page
is the main place where you can find information about organization,
funding, and discuss with others.
As mentioned in the past, WMDE can help with providing advice on
organization and communication, and can send Wikidata swag to your group
before the event. If we want to get all of this ready for you before the
end of October, we need some buffer time. That's why I'd like to inform you
about two things:
1. A *call for all organizers* or people thinking about organizing a
birthday celebration, will take place on August 28th. This is the
opportunity to chat with me, but also people from other local groups, about
your ideas, your questions, your needs.
- Date: *August 28th*, 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time)
- Meeting link: Google Meet <https://meet.google.com/bxb-kgsa-tfu>
(yes, it's Google. If you're deeply unhappy about this, you can
write to me
and we'll find another solution)
2. The *deadline for requesting Wikidata swag is September 7th*. After
this date, we can't promise that we'll be able to prepare the swag for you.
- Before this date, you can write me an email, listing everything you
need. It can be items that we already have (T-shirts, hoodies, socks,
stickers, bags, notebooks, pens...) but also other things, if
you have nice
ideas on what to print.
- I'll reply to you shortly and we'll discuss about the best options
to get the swag: print it from our usual partners in Germany, print it
locally, etc. I'll support you during the whole process.
If you have any question, suggestion, feel free to write to me at any time.
I'm excited about the plans we're going to build together!
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 Mr. or Ms.;
I thank you for your efforts. I tried to add the following statement using QuickStatements
Q18557565 P5642 Q662860 P1542 Q217690 S698 27125965.
The statement is added. However, the PubMed ID of the reference was not added. I ask if this matter can be fixed.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki