Dear all,
I have the great pleasure to announce two new grant programs for projects
that support the goals of WikiCite: the promotion open citations and linked
bibliographic data to serve free knowledge.
The steering committee is now accepting applications for the following two
types of grants. For both types the application deadline is 1 October 2020,
and all projects must be completed by 1 May 2021.
--- Project & Event grants ---
Grants between $2,000 and $10,000 (USD equivalent) are available to
individuals, groups, and organisations with a project that supports the
goals of Wikicite.
All the details, the eligibility criteria (especially for in-person
events[1]), and the application form are available on the WikiCite project
& event grants homepage:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/grants
Individuals, groups, and organizations may apply, and projects may be of
any nature. This includes technical (e.g. software, tools), event (online,
or in-person), resources (training materials, documentation), or other
forms not mentioned – as long as it supports the goals of WikiCite.
--- e-Scholarships ---
The e-scholarship program is a new kind of grant in Wikimedia, created in
response to an era of COVID-19 quarantines, and the 2030 Movement strategy
goals.
An e-scholarship provides a per-diem equivalent allowance for 1-5 people to
stay at their home(s) and work for 2-4 days on a project supporting the
mission of WikiCite. e-scholarship recipients' projects can be the kinds of
things they might have previously undertaken with a scholarship for an
in-person hackathon, unconference, or research trip, for example.
All the details, eligibility criteria, program design principles, and the
application form are available on the WikiCite e-scholarships homepage:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/e-scholarship
Funding will:
- be provided in advance;
- be calculated at the WMF per-diem rate for the city where the
e-scholarship recipient lives;
- and (as it is a living allowance) not require recipients to submit
expense reports.
"Remote group" applications are encouraged, as are projects which focus on
content or communities which are historically underrepresented in Wikimedia
projects. Building a bot, fixing a tool, wrangling a dataset, writing
complete documentation... all are valid e-scholarship projects. A
confirmation letter (in advance) and/or participation certificate
(afterwards) can also be provided.
Liam Wyatt [Wittylama]
--
Program Manager for WikiCite <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite>
Wikimedia Foundation
- WikiCite is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Wikimedia
Foundation -
[1] Applications for in-person events are eligible. The WMF will release a
risk assessment calculator for in-person events and a checklist of
precautions in early September. This protocol will apply to all Wikimedia
Foundation supported events. Applicants may publish a draft of their
proposals now, and edit it before the submission deadline to include a copy
of the results from the risk assessment protocol once it is published.
Hi Community!
2 questions:
1. "has quality" P1552 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1552>
already has a few P1659 "see also" statements. Great! However, if anyone
knows of any additional "see also" statements for it that users might be
made aware of, then I would greatly appreciate anyone adding them. I read
all the prior proposal talk and nothing obvious came to my might, but I
know we have some property experts that might instantly know of a few that
could be added to help wanderers such as myself.
2. "has quality" P1552 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1552> feels
like it is missing something to help with additional meaning and semantic
intent when it comes to Linked Data. Perhaps added into a Wikidata
property classification like maybe these or only one of them or something
else?
- Wikidata property for causes and effects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28746712>
- Wikidata property for perceptual properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22964093>
Thanks in advance!
Thad
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/
Hi,
We have an issue with the data missing in WCQS. We are investigating it
right now.
Regards,
Zbyszko
--
Zbyszko Papierski (He/Him)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi all!
This is an announcement for a significant (but not breaking) change to the
JSON output of WikibaseLexeme entities, specifically of Senses and Forms,
when obtained via Special:EntityData
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData> or the Wikibase API
endpoints like Special:ApiHelp/wbgetentities
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ApiHelp/wbgetentities>.
The Snak output in the Wikibase JSON serialization
<https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/php/md_docs_topics_json.html#json…>
usually contains a datatype field for each Snak. Previously, these fields
were missing for statements within Senses and Forms of a Lexeme – see
the message
on Project Chat
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/1258923595#[Significant…>
for an example (I didn’t want to bloat this email too much by including it
here 🙂). Starting on 26 August 2020 (barring unexpected deployment issues; 25
August 2020 on Test Wikidata), these datatype fields will be present there
as well.
If you have any issue or question, feel free to leave a comment at T249206
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249206>.
Cheers,
Lucas
--
Lucas Werkmeister (he/er)
Full Stack Developer
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision!
https://spenden.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hello all,
As you may know, in the past months, the Wikidata development team has been
working on the first version of the *Wikidata Bridge
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Bridge>*, the feature that will
allow Wikipedia editors to edit Wikidata content directly from their
infoboxes on the Wikipedia interface.
The first version is about to be deployed on Catalan Wikipedia, the first
Wikipedia community to try it, who’s been providing great enthusiasm and
support towards the project. The deployment will take place on August 18th
and we’ll carefully monitor the possible issues during the upcoming weeks.
The first version of the Bridge includes minimal features
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Vlrzy9sw6ownhafs>, such as editing
string datatype values, displaying the existing Wikidata references,
adapting the rank depending on the reason for the edit (fix or update), and
redirecting to Wikidata for actions that are not yet possible with the
Bridge. It is not the final version, many improvements will be made in the
future, but we wanted to have a first version out as soon as possible, to
see if it works for the editors and collect feedback.
On Wikidata, edits coming from the Bridge will be flagged with the tag Data
Bridge. We also made sure to check the different levels of protections, so
items that are protected on Wikidata cannot be edited from Wikipedia, and
users who are blocked on Wikidata cannot edit from Wikipedia.
It’s an exciting step in the direction of more collaboration between
Wikidata and Wikipedia editors, and we’re looking forward to welcoming more
Wikipedia editors on Wikidata!
You can follow the progress of the feature on this documentation page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Bridge> and on the related talk
page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata_Bridge>. If you have any
questions or suggestions, let us know. 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.
CALL FOR PAPERS
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International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Legal
Documents (AI4LEGAL2020)
In the context of the International Semantic Web Conference 2020 (ISWC 2020)
Virtual Event
November 2 or 3, 2020
http://ai.di.uoa.gr/#iswc20-workshop
Legislation applies to every aspect of people’s living and evolves
continuously building a huge network of
interlinked legal documents. Therefore, it is important for a government to
offer services that make legislation
easily accessible to the citizens aiming at informing them, enabling them
to defend their rights, or to use
legislation as part of their job. It is equally important to have law
professionals (lawyers, judges, etc.)
access legislation in ways that allow them to do their job easily (e.g.,
they might need to be able to see
the evolution of a law over time). Finally, in the age of the Web, it is
important to enable software developers
to develop applications for citizens and law professionals easily, by
connecting the available laws with other
kinds of government or private sector information. Towards this direction,
there are already many countries in
Europe and elsewhere that have computerized the legislative process by
developing platforms for archiving legislation
documents and offering on-line access to them using standards such as Akoma
Ntoso (aka LegalDocML) which is an OASIS
standard, the European standard CEN-MetaLex, the European Legislation
Identifier, the European Case Law Identifier etc.
There also private companies (e.g., ROSS Intelligence, LexisNexis, RAVEL,
LexMachina etc.) that specialize on providing
digital services for law, case law, compliance, contracts, etc. The vision
of the AI4LEGAL international workshop is
to bring together Artificial Intelligence researchers and practitioners to
work on the problem of digitization of
legislation and legal documents in today’s interconnected world.
Topics of Interest
===================
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
-Natural language processing techniques for legal documents
-Legal knowledge graphs
-Knowledge representation and reasoning techniques for legal documents
-Explainable AI for legal documents
-Linked data for legal documents
-Machine learning techniques for legal documents
-Scalable deep learning techniques for legal text analytics
-Question answering for legal documents
-Chatbots for legal documents
-Language resources for digital legal document research and development
-National or international initiatives and digital platforms for legislation
-Multilingualism
-Specific application areas (legislation, judicial decisions, case law,
compliance, contracts)
Submissions
===========
Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of long or short papers.
Long papers should be at most 16 pages
including references. Short papers should be of at most 8 pages including
references. All contributions should be
prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop
submission site.
-All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ai4legal2020
-All submissions must be in English.
-Submissions must be in PDF formatted in the style of the Springer
Publications format for Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see
Springer’s Author Instructions.
-Accepted papers will be published as AI4LEGAL workshop proceedings. At
least one author of each accepted paper must register
for the workshop to present the paper.
-The proceedings of the workshop will be made publicly available before the
workshop on the
platform http://ceur-ws.org/
Important Dates
===============
Activities |Due Date
--------------------------------------------
Papers due |August 17, 2020
Notification of acceptance or rejection |September 11, 2020
Camera ready paper due |September 25, 2020
All deadlines are midnight Athens time (GMT+2).
Workshop Format
===============
The workshop will follow the traditional format (invited talks,
presentations by paper authors, questions from the audience)
but will encourage discussion and identification of open issues by giving
enough time for questions after presentations.
Venue
======
There is no physical venue. The workshop will be held on-line like the rest
of ISWC 2020.
Program Chairs
===============
Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom (
https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/grigoris-antoniou)
Guido Governatori, Data 61 CSIRO, Australia (
http://www.governatori.net/research/index.html)
Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and
Leader of Nomothesia project, Greece (http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~koubarak/)
Elena Montiel Ponsoda, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain (
http://mayor2.dia.fi.upm.es/oeg-upm/index.php/en/teachers/52-emontiel/)
Eleni Tsalapati, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Program Committee
==================
Nikolaos Aletras, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Ion Androutsopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Karim Benyekhlef, Cyberjustice Laboratory, University of Montreal, Canada
Ilias Chalkidis, Athens University of Economics and Business and NCSR
Demokritos, Greece
Jack G. Conrad, Thomson Reuters, United States of America
Randy Goebel, University of Alberta and ROSS Intelligence, Canada
Martin Kaltenböck, Semantic Web Company, Austria
George Karvelis, Ministry of Digital Governance and European Public Law
Organization, Greece
John P. McCrae, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland
Marc van Opijnen, Publications Office of the Netherlands and European Case
Law Identifier expert group, The Netherlands
Jeff Z. Pan, The University of Aberdeen, UK
Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Pompeu Casanovas Romeu, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, and La
Trobe University, Australia
Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics and Sokendai, Japan
Clara Smith, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Martin Theobald, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Leon van de Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia
Contact
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For more information please contact us at etsalapati(a)gmail.com