Hello all,
As you may know, the *WikidataCon 2019
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019>* will take place
on October 25th-26th 2019 in Berlin. The conference will host 250 people
from the Wikidata community, but also the emerging Wikibase community, as
well as partners, organizations and companies the organizations who may be
interested in *using Wikidata and Wikibase*, or contributing in various
ways to the evolution of Wikidata. The event will be focused on networking
and strategic discussions around Wikidata and Wikibase, with a special
focus on *languages and Wikidata*.
Because the number of seats is limited and in order to make sure that the
access to the conference is fair, we decided to set up a selection process.
People who wish to attend the conference can now apply by filling in the
application form
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend/Apply>. A
committee equally composed of volunteers and staff will evaluate the
applications against criteria that are already published onwiki
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend>.
This application form aims to gather all of the useful information at once,
that’s why it also contains the program submissions (limited to 3 per
person) and the scholarship application if needed. You can find more
information about the content of the form on this page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend/Apply>.
Part of the attendees will be also invited directly by the organizing team,
based on the connections we want to build with organizations during this
conference, and the input they can bring to Wikidata’s strategy.
The deadline to fill out the application form is April 26th. No application
can be considered after this date. Over the following month, the committee
will evaluate the applications, and the applicants will receive an answer
latest on June 12th.
Here are a few tips to help you prepare your application:
- Read the description of the conference
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019> and the page
describing the process and the criteria
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend>
carefully.
- Plan 20 to 30 minutes to fill out the form.
- Don’t do it at the last minute :) it will be less stressful for you,
as well as for the committee.
- Prepare all your program submissions, as they will be requested in the
same form (no submission can be done later). On this page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Program> you
can check the formats and questions.
- Read the Friendly Space Policy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend/Policy>
that will apply to the entire event.
- Look at the visa information
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Attend/Visa> to
check if you need a visa to Germany and what actions you need to take.
You can find a lot of information regarding the conference on
Wikidata:WikidataCon
2019 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019>. If you have
any question or issue, feel free to share it on the talk page onwiki or to
reach the organizing team at info(a)wikidatacon.org
Finally, feel free to share this message with your local community,
networks, or projects you’re working in! We want to make sure that everyone
who’s involved in Wikidata or Wikibase has a chance to apply.
We're looking forward to receiving your applications!
Thanks for your attention,
--
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.
Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be the recipient of three new grants totaling
around USD 500,000. We hope to work with many of you as part of these
projects. If you are interested in getting involved or receiving updates
please let me know.
Furthermore, the chapter also has a new heavily subsidized agreement for
our office space.
Project 1: Wikispeech – The Speech Data Collector
The first project is a continuation of the Wikispeech[1] project, a
text-to-speech (TTS) system that converts written text into speech. From
September 2019 to April 2021 we aim to finalize building the MediaWiki
extension and to build tools to collect speech data to add pronunciations
to Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikidata and to add more languages to the
text-to-speech solution. The tools should also be possible to use for oral
citations.
The work happens in partnership with the Royal Technical Institute, STTS (a
language processing company), Mozilla Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland and
the Swedish Dyslexia Association.
As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in Swedish):
https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikispeech_–_Talresursinsamlaren_2019…
Project 2: Wikipedia in Libraries
>From 2019 to 2020 Wikimedia Sverige, together with the National Library of
Sweden, will develop an online training module for Swedish librarians
focused around free knowledge and the Wikimedia platforms. This will be a
mandatory training for all of Sweden's 5,000 public librarians. Our hope is
to give all of them a basic understanding of the Wikimedia projects, as
well as to complement the online training with advanced courses for the
most dedicated. The advanced courses will give them the tools to ongoingly
organize activities and events independently at their libraries across the
country.
Furthermore, the librarians will be engaged in the #1Lib1Ref and
FindingGLAMs campaigns.
There is a great potential to receive continuous funding over the coming 3
years if successful.
As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in Swedish):
https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikipedia_i_biblioteken_2019/Ansökan
Project 3: Bibliographical data on Wikidata
We continue our work to include bibliographical data on Wikidata. The
project details are still being negotiated with the funder. The project
will start in mid-2019 and last until 2020.
Cost reduction
Starting from March 2019 we have a new agreement in place for a heavily
subsidized coworking space office from the Swedish Internet Foundation.
Through the agreement we will save us around USD 30,000 per year compared
to when we had an office of our own.
We have received this generous subsidy because Wikipedia is considered so
important for the infrastructure of the Internet. We are very happy that
the agreement does not have an end date and that we have the possibility to
grow significantly over time as well (while keeping the generous subsidy).
Please contact John Andersson (john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se) if you have any
questions.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikispeech
Best,
John
- - - -
John Andersson
Executive Director
Wikimedia Sverige
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se
Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm
Hi!
There is a discussion going on in W3C SPARQL 1.2 Community Group about
the improvements in SPARQL language. May be interesting to people that
are using SPARQL and those that may have some ideas of how to improve it.
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Date: Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 7:31 AM
Subject: [rdf4j-users] SPARQL 1.2 Community Group
To: <rdf4j-users(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:rdf4j-users@googlegroups.com>>
SPARQL 1.2 Community Group starts up:
http://www.w3.org/community/sparql-12/
It will document features found as extensions and capture common needs
from the user community.
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Dear all,
ABES (Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education) and BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France) in France are jointly involved in an initiative to build a central national platform for the description of “entities”, including persons, corporate bodies, works, concepts, places…
The challenge is to create and maintain centrally and cooperatively information about entities documented in the collections held by libraries and other cultural heritage and research institutions in France. Key objectives also include, but are not limited to : better integrate into the Web of data the reference datasets created by such institutions and facilitate the use of data by any interested community; share efforts and increase possibilities to collectively improve data quality; develop a shared data strategy. In the previous stage, ABES and BnF carried out a feasibility study, including investigation of different solutions to support the overall infrastructure of the platform. The study led to the conclusion that it would be advisable at this stage to carry out a Proof of Concept in order to investigate the possibility of using the software infrastructure of WikiBase to support the FNE. The rationale is based on the observation that a good portion of the principles and functional characteristics of WikiBase and its related tools are likely to respond to the functional requirements that both partners have formulated for FNE. This hypothesis remains to be proved by the Proof of Concept this tender is about, and ABES and BnF are looking for a contractor that will help them test it. The call for tender is open until April 26th. All the documents are available here https://www.marches-publics.gouv.fr/app.php/consultation/422595 . While the responses to the call for tender can be written in English, provided a French version is also supplied alongside, While the responses to the call for tender can be written in English, provided a French version is also provided alongside, mastering French language is not a prerequisite.
Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Best regards,
Ben
Benjamin Bober
Chef de projet Fichier National d'Entités
+33 4 67 54 84 74
227 avenue Professeur Jean-Louis Viala |CS 84308
34193 Montpellier Cedex 5
Dear all,
I thank you for your answer. I congratulate Wikimedia Sverige for their achievement that will absolutely contribute to the development of the Wikimedia movement. We will be honoured to actively collaborate with Wikimedia Sverige and to participate to their three projects.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36
GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, WikiResearch Tunisia
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb
Founder, TunSci
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De : Colette Guébo <yao.mariecolette(a)gmail.com>
Date : 2019/03/28 20:15 (GMT+01:00)
À : "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc : cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch, Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Discussion list for the Wikidata project <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Objet : Re: [GLAM] [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] Wikimedia Sverige receives a total of USD 500, 000+ in funding for three new projects, and a cost reduction of USD 30, 000/year
Congratulations to the Wikimedia Sverige team. it's super cool.
Best regards.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 3:12 PM Rajeeb Dutta <marajozkee(a)gmail.com<mailto:marajozkee@gmail.com>> wrote:
Congratulations John and Wikimedia Sverige team!! Looking forward to contribute to these amazing projects.
Cheers,
Rajeeb(Marajozkee)
Sent from my iPhone
> On 28-Mar-2019, at 8:28 PM, Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com<mailto:lane@bluerasberry.com>> wrote:
>
> Congratulations. I am excited especially for the "Bibliographical data on
> Wikidata" part, where my university and many other universities around the
> world will join you in collaboration. I expect that what Wikimedia
> Sverige does in this space will set global precedent for how everyone in
> research publishes and shares research. This is very good news and I will
> look for an opportunity to collaborate in research and Wikidata content
> curation.
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:12 AM Stacy Allison-Cassin <sacassin(a)yorku.ca<mailto:sacassin@yorku.ca>>
> wrote:
>
>> To echo everyone else, congratulations! These projects sound amazing and
>> I'm really looking forward to the results.
>> Stacy
>>
>> Stacy Allison-Cassin, MMus, MISt, PhD Cand.
>>
>> Associate Librarian
>>
>> York University Libraries
>>
>>
>> *York University acknowledges its presence on the traditional territory of
>> many Indigenous Nations. The area known as Tkaronto has been care taken by
>> the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Huron-Wendat,
>> and the Métis. It is now home to many Indigenous peoples. We acknowledge
>> the current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.
>> This territory is subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant,
>> an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region.*
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Wikidata <wikidata-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:wikidata-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org>> on behalf of John
>> Andersson <john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se<mailto:john.andersson@wikimedia.se>>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 28, 2019 6:31 AM
>> *To:* wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>; glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:glam@lists.wikimedia.org>;
>> cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch<mailto:cultural-partners@wikimedia.ch>; wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org>
>> *Subject:* [Wikidata] Wikimedia Sverige receives a total of USD 500, 000+
>> in funding for three new projects, and a cost reduction of USD 30, 000/year
>>
>>
>> Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be the recipient of three new grants
>> totaling around USD 500,000. We hope to work with many of you as part of
>> these projects. If you are interested in getting involved or receiving
>> updates please let me know.
>>
>> Furthermore, the chapter also has a new heavily subsidized agreement for
>> our office space.
>>
>> Project 1: Wikispeech – The Speech Data Collector
>>
>> The first project is a continuation of the Wikispeech[1] project, a
>> text-to-speech (TTS) system that converts written text into speech. From
>> September 2019 to April 2021 we aim to finalize building the MediaWiki
>> extension and to build tools to collect speech data to add pronunciations
>> to Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikidata and to add more languages to the
>> text-to-speech solution. The tools should also be possible to use for oral
>> citations.
>>
>> The work happens in partnership with the Royal Technical Institute, STTS
>> (a language processing company), Mozilla Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland
>> and the Swedish Dyslexia Association.
>>
>> As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in Swedish):
>> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikispeech_–_Talresursinsamlaren_2019…<https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikispeech_%E2%80%93_Talresursinsamla…>
>>
>> Project 2: Wikipedia in Libraries
>>
>> From 2019 to 2020 Wikimedia Sverige, together with the National Library of
>> Sweden, will develop an online training module for Swedish librarians
>> focused around free knowledge and the Wikimedia platforms. This will be a
>> mandatory training for all of Sweden's 5,000 public librarians. Our hope is
>> to give all of them a basic understanding of the Wikimedia projects, as
>> well as to complement the online training with advanced courses for the
>> most dedicated. The advanced courses will give them the tools to ongoingly
>> organize activities and events independently at their libraries across the
>> country.
>>
>> Furthermore, the librarians will be engaged in the #1Lib1Ref and
>> FindingGLAMs campaigns.
>>
>> There is a great potential to receive continuous funding over the coming 3
>> years if successful.
>>
>> As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in Swedish):
>> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikipedia_i_biblioteken_2019/Ansökan<https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikipedia_i_biblioteken_2019/Ans%C3%B…>
>>
>> Project 3: Bibliographical data on Wikidata
>>
>> We continue our work to include bibliographical data on Wikidata. The
>> project details are still being negotiated with the funder. The project
>> will start in mid-2019 and last until 2020.
>>
>> Cost reduction
>>
>> Starting from March 2019 we have a new agreement in place for a heavily
>> subsidized coworking space office from the Swedish Internet Foundation.
>> Through the agreement we will save us around USD 30,000 per year compared
>> to when we had an office of our own.
>>
>> We have received this generous subsidy because Wikipedia is considered so
>> important for the infrastructure of the Internet. We are very happy that
>> the agreement does not have an end date and that we have the possibility to
>> grow significantly over time as well (while keeping the generous subsidy).
>>
>> Please contact John Andersson (john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se<mailto:john.andersson@wikimedia.se>) if you have
>> any questions.
>>
>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikispeech
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> John
>>
>> - - - -
>>
>> John Andersson
>>
>> Executive Director
>>
>> Wikimedia Sverige
>>
>> Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
>>
>> Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se<mailto:john.andersson@wikimedia.se>
>>
>> Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm
>>
>>
>>
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Hi,
I would like to know if SPARQL can be used to fetch information like "What
is the value of the property P31 for a given QId?"
e.g.,
query: What is the value of the property P31 for QId="Q949228"
response: Q11424 (label: film)
The intent behind such query is to identify the "type of" (or "sub-class
of") for some entity Q for which I know the QId.
Thanks and regards,
Raveesh
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/
Follow us:
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Become part of ISWC 2019 by submitting to the following tracks & activities
or just attend them!
*** All deadlines are midnight Hawaii Time (GMT-10) ***
In this announcement:
* Highlights
1. Call for Research papers
2. Call for In-use papers
3. Call for Resource papers
* Highlights
*******************************************
* Research track: papers submitted to the research track will be subject to
**double blind** peer review.
* Research, In-use and Resource tracks: 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. Before submitting, authors are asked to
consult the calls of the other tracks featured at ISWC 2019 and to choose
the track that best suits their contribution. Please consult the following
page as well when deciding to which track to submit:
https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/paper-features-per-track/
* Research track: a reproducibility certification with a dedicated review
board will be proposed to the accepted research track papers that include a
significant experimental evaluation.
1. Call for Research papers
*******************************************
In this track of ISWC 2019, 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 material such as
data sets, source code, queries used to evaluate their approach, and/or
live deployments. To comply with the double blind review policy we
encourage the usage of non-personal storage spaces or the additional
material facility available at submission time.
Topics of interest and further info:
https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-research-track-papers/
== Important Dates ==
Abstracts: April 3, 2019
Full papers: April 10, 2019
== Program Chairs ==
Contact: iswc2019-program(a)inria.fr
Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy
Olaf Hartig, Linköping University, Sweden
2. Call for In-use papers
*******************************************
The adoption of Semantic Web technologies has accelerated in recent years,
where they are now deployed in a variety of real-world settings at a
variety of scales. The In-Use Track at ISWC 2019 continues the tradition of
demonstrating and learning from the increasing adoption of Semantic Web
technologies by providing a forum for the community to explore the benefits
and challenges of applying such technologies in concrete, practical use
cases, beyond the research communities from which they originate, in
contexts ranging from industry to government and science.
The In-Use Track thus seeks submissions describing 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,
technologies based on the Semantic Web standards). Importantly, submitted
papers should provide convincing evidence of the use of the proposed
application or tool by the target user group, preferably outside the group
that conducted the development and, more broadly, outside the Semantic Web
research community. A main focus of the submissions should be on the
benefits of Semantic Web technologies for the intended use case, as well as
(if relevant) the added challenges they introduce.
Topics of interest and further info:
https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-in-use-track-papers/
== Important Dates ==
Abstracts: April 3, 2019
Full papers: April 10, 2019
== Program Chairs ==
Contact: iswc2019-in-use(a)inria.fr
Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Aidan Hogan, Universidad de Chile, Chile
3. Call for Resource papers
*******************************************
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. Sharing resources 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 2019 Resources Track aims to promote the sharing of resources
including, but not restricted to: datasets, ontologies/vocabularies,
ontology design patterns, evaluation benchmarks or methods, software
tools/services, APIs and software frameworks, workflows, crowdsourcing task
designs, protocols, methodologies and metrics, that contribute to the
generation of novel scientific work. In particular, we encourage the
sharing of such resources following best practices within the Semantic Web
community. This track calls for contributions that provide a concise and
clear description of a resource and its usage.
Categories of resources and further info:
https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/call-for-resources-track-papers/
== Important Dates ==
Abstracts: April 3, 2019
Full papers: April 10, 2019
== Program Chairs ==
Contact: iswc2019-resource(a)inria.fr
Maria Maleshkova, SDA, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Vojtěch Svátek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
See you all in Auckland!
The ISWC 2019 Organising Team (
https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/organizing-committee/ )
Hi Lydia and team,
I know that Google+ is shutting down soon.
I noticed that there is a Google+ link in the Contact area on the bottom
right of Main Page.
Are there plans to archive and allow the gzip to be downloaded from
somewhere for posterity?
When will the link on Main Page be removed?
Thad
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/