Hi Everyone,
The Search Platform Team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds
office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about
anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia
Commons Query Service, etc.!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET
& WAT
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi
Join by phone: https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927
Hope to talk to you tomorrow!
—Trey
Trey Jones
Staff Computational Linguist, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC–5 / EST
Dear Wikimedians and Friends,
TL;DR: The first EduWiki Live will be on Tuesday, November 30, at 15:00 UTC
Theme: *Wikidata and Curriculum Digitization*
Livestream:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaEducationTeam
Youtube (link will be shared soon)
I hope this email finds you well. Last month, we introduced you to our
new EduWiki
community support strategy
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/10/05/promoting-more-inclusive-and-equitabl…>.
As a part of our new strategy, we are here with the first “EduWiki Live
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Live>” event, scheduled
for 30th November at 15:00 UTC. EduWiki Live is a virtual event that aims
to serve as a bridge between the EduWiki community and the Education
sector. This will help the community to engage in deep dives into
interesting topics about global education from a Wikimedia movement
perspective.
This month, the Education Team is hosting the first EduWiki Live on the
theme of *Wikidata and Curriculum Digitization*. We are aiming to highlight
the work that has been done in this area and how you can be a part of it.
For this event, we will be joined by guest speakers Ivan Savov, a
researcher working in the field of curriculum digitization and data models,
along with Ernest Gavor and Andrews Lartey representing the Ghana Society
for Education Technology (GSET).
Here is the brief agenda for the event:
- A general update and news on things happening in the EduWiki
community. An overview of the potential impact of aligning curriculum data
on Wikidata, and where we are now with the Wikidata for Education
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_for_Education> project
by Nichole Saad.
- Take a deep dive into the data models for curriculum standards
<https://learningequality.org/r/digitizing-curriculum> with Ivan Savov:
learn about the use cases for digital curriculum standards, the work done
so far, and how this could be useful for the Wikimedia movement.
- Meet our implementing partners from Ghana, learn what we want to
accomplish with the Wikidata for Education project, and why it is important
in the Ghanian context.
Open Q&A
You can watch the event live on Facebook and Youtube. For you to be able to
ask questions in your native language we encourage you to use the comment
option on Facebook, as it supports automatic translation, If you are
interested in helping translate questions and answers in the comments
please reach out to education(a)wikimedia.org
Best!
Sailesh and the Education team
--
Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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ICWE 2022
22nd International Conference on Web Engineering
Bari, Italy | July 5-8, 2022
http://icwe2022.webengineering.org/
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Call for Contributions
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IMPORTANT DATES
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* Abstract submission: January 22, 2022 (AoE Time)
* Full paper submission: January 29, 2022 (AoE Time)
* Paper notification: March 12, 2022 (AoE Time)
* Camera-ready paper: March 26, 2022 (AoE Time)
ICWE 2022 AT A GLANCE
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The International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) is the premier annual conference on Web Engineering and associated technologies. ICWE aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines in academia and industry to tackle the emerging challenges in the engineering of Web applications, the problems of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture. The 22nd edition of ICWE will accept contributions on a wide spectrum of topics related to Web Engineering, such as, among others:
- Web application modelling and engineering
- Web mining and knowledge extraction
- Web Big Data and Web data analytics
- Mobile Web applications
- Web of Things applications
- Social Web applications
- Web crowdsourcing and human computation
- Semantic Web, Web ontologies, and Linked Open Data applications
- Web composition and mashups
- Web user interfaces
- Quality and accessibility aspects of Web applications
- Web security and privacy
- Web services, computing, and standards
- Microservice architecture for Web applications
- Cloud, fog, and edge computing for Web applications
- Fairness of Web technology
- User Modelling and Recommender Systems based on Web technology
- Explainable Web technology
In addition to the research track, ICWE 2022 also seeks contributions of demos and posters, student papers to the PhD Symposium, tutorials, and workshops, which will be subject of individual calls.
The conference will be held at Politecnico di Bari in Bari, Italy. Bari is a lively city located in the South-East part of Italy, easily reachable by car, train, and plane. Further information can be found at http://icwe2022.webengineering.org/.
ORGANIZATION
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General Chair:
- Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Program Co-Chairs:
- Markus Schedl, Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz, Austria
- In-Young Ko, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
SUBMISSIONS TO THE RESEARCH TRACK
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This call addresses research contributions in one of the following categories:
* Full papers: mature, original research contribution. Reported results must be supported by some type of validation, and also include a justification about the choice/suitability of the validation method. In addition, evidence of use in practice and/or demonstration of scalability is regarded as a plus. (15 pages)
* Short papers: short papers presenting a discussion – analysis, criticism, proposal, etc. – about relevant aspects of Web engineering topics. These papers are intended to generate discussions that promise potential for research that will impact Web engineering in the coming years. (8 pages)
Papers must be formatted according to the information for Springer LNCS authors at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html and submitted in PDF format. Papers submitted to ICWE 2022 must not be under review elsewhere while under consideration for ICWE 2022, nor may have been already previously published elsewhere. Please note that we strongly discourage authors to upload their ICWE submissions to arXiv while still being under review since doing so may hamper anonymity. Submissions that are not in compliance with the required submission format or that are out of the scope of the conference will be desk rejected without reviewing.
Accepted contributions will be included into the ICWE 2022 Springer LNCS proceedings. The best papers will be selected to be proposed, in extended form, as part of a special issue of the Journal of Web Engineering.
Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form, through which the copyright for their paper is transferred to Springer.
Submissions and reviewing are supported by the EasyChair system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwe2022.
CONTACT
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All questions about submissions should be emailed to icwe2022(a)easychair.org. Further information can be found at http://icwe2022.webengineering.org.
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ICWE 2022
22nd International Conference on Web Engineering
Bari, Italy | July 5-8, 2022
http://icwe2022.webengineering.org/
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Call for Demos & Posters
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline (demos and posters): February 19, 2022 (AoE Time)
Notification of acceptance: March 19, 2022 (AoE Time)
Camera-ready deadline: March 26, 2022 (AoE Time)
CALL
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Overview
The International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) is the premier annual conference on Web Engineering and associated technologies. ICWE aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines in academia and industry to tackle the emerging challenges in the engineering of Web applications, the problems of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture.
The track Demos and Posters of ICWE 2022 provides an unique forum for researchers and practitioners alike to showcase demonstrators, to present projects, to discuss preliminary research results, and obtain feedback from members of the Web Engineering community.
* Demos
ICWE 2022 sees significant value in demonstrations and aims to provide visibility and a discussion forum for state-of-the-art technical solutions, implementation experiences and recent research activities. The Demos track offers an exciting and highly interactive way of presenting and discussing demonstrators of promising research. It is an excellent way of showcasing prototypes and the applicability of your research. Submissions about open source software and commercial solutions are also welcome. Note that demonstrations should be brief so that they can be shown repeatedly. We particularly encourage demos with which attendees can interact.
* Posters
The Posters track invites researchers, practitioners, PhD students and others working in any area of Web Engineering, that do not have a demonstration, to submit a poster of their research. We solicit submission of original research, as well as experience and vision papers from both researchers and practitioners. Like Demos, Poster contributions may address any topic that fits within the ICWE 2022 topics of interest.
Topics of interests (not exhaustively) includes the following:
* Web application modelling and engineering
* Web mining and knowledge extraction
* Web Big Data and Web data analytics
* Mobile Web applications
* Web of Things applications
* Social Web applications
* Web crowdsourcing and human computation
* Semantic Web, Web ontologies, and Linked Open Data applications
* Web composition and mashups
* Web user interfaces
* Quality and accessibility aspects of Web applications
* Web security and privacy
* Web services, computing, and standards
* Microservice architecture for Web applications
* Cloud, fog, and edge computing for Web applications
* Fairness of Web technology
* User Modelling and Recommender Systems based on Web technology
* Explainable Web technology
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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The submissions to the track Demo and Poster must include:
* A description of the work (up to 4 pages in LNCS format including references) to be included into the proceedings of ICWE 2022. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use proceedings templates as instructed at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Submissions should be in PDF format.
* An appendix (in free format) informing what will be demonstrated and how the contributions will be illustrated interactively. For demos, the appendix should include a URL that points to a preliminary version of the demo (e.g., screenshots, videos, or a running system). For posters, it should include a link to download a poster in PDF format, A0 size.
All submissions should through EasyChair using the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwe2022
Publication of Accepted Submissions
Camera-ready versions of accepted Demos and Posters submissions will be published in the ICWE 2022 main conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted submission must register for the conference and present the work during the demos and posters sessions.
The final version of each accepted paper must strictly adhere to the LNCS guidelines (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and must include a printable file of the camera-ready version as well as all required source files (either MS Word or Latex). No changes to the LNCS formatting rules are permitted. Authors of accepted papers must also download and sign a copyright form that will be made available in due time.
DEMO & POSTER CHAIRS
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Yashar Deldjoo (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
Irene Garrigos (University of Alicante, Spain)
Marco Tkalcic (University of Primorska, Slovenia)
CONTACT
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All questions about submissions should be emailed to: pdchair.icwe2022(a)webengineering.org
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ICWE 2022
22nd International Conference on Web Engineering
Bari, Italy | July 5-8, 2022
http://icwe2022.webengineering.org/
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Call for PhD Symposium
===========================
IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: February 19, 2022 (AoE Time)
Notification of acceptance: March 19, 2022 (AoE Time)
Camera-ready deadline: March 26 2022 (AoE Time)
CALL
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The ICWE 2022 PhD Symposium aims to improve the research of PhD students and broaden their perspectives by giving them the opportunity to share and develop their research ideas in a supportive environment, get feedback from senior members of the Web engineering community, improve their communication skills, exchange ideas, and build relationships with other international Web engineering PhD students.
This event will bring together PhD students working on topics related to the Web Engineering field. The goal is to provide a forum for PhD students to present ongoing research in a collaborative environment and share ideas with other young researchers in an international atmosphere.
Accepted contributions will be presented in a dedicated conference session where participants will discuss their research ideas and results, and receive constructive feedback from an audience consisting of their peers as well as more senior experts in the field. In addition to that, students will be invited to participate at the poster sessions so that they also receive comments from other participants in the conference.
PhD students carrying out research in Web Engineering are invited to submit a paper to the PhD Symposium, to be reviewed by the program committee members. We particularly encourage submissions from students who are at the last stages of their doctoral work, but with sufficient time prior to completing their dissertation, and from those who are in the beginning stages, but have a specific research proposal, who can obtain valuable feedback about their research plans.
The criteria used for accepting a paper include potential quality of the research, contribution of the work to the field of Web Engineering, originality of the work, and overall quality of paper.
All PhD Symposium papers will appear in the main conference proceedings that will be published in Springer LNCS.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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Length: Submissions must not be longer than 6 (six) pages.
Format: Submissions should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) and must include:
- Authors' names (Ph.D. student needs to be the first author)
- Affiliation
- A 150 words abstract
- The name of the student's PhD supervisor(s)
- The problem(s) that the proposed research is going to solve and the motivation for solving them
- Related work: current approaches to solve this problem
- The aims and objectives of the proposed research
- The research methodology to be used to achieve the research goals, including a brief description of the work done to date and a tentative plan for future work
- The main contribution(s) of the research to Web Engineering
If accepted, the authors will need to provide Word/Latex sources following the standard Springer LNCS format for the camera-ready.
Submission: Authors should submit their contributions to the ICWE 2022 submission site at EasyChair (indicating the type of submission):
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwe2022
PHD SYMPOSIUM CHAIR
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Alessandro Bozzon, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
CONTACT
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All questions about submissions should be emailed to phdchair.icwe2022(a)webengineering.org
Further information can be found at https://icwe2022.webengineering.org/
The Journal of Web Semantics (JWS) invites submissions for a special
issue on Community-based Knowledge Bases and Knowledge Graphs, edited by
Tim Finin, Sebastian Hellmann, and David Martin. (Contact email for the
special issue; goes to all 3 editors: cbkb(a)cs.umbc.edu
<mailto:cbkb@cs.umbc.edu>.) *The deadline has been extended by 10 weeks,
and submissions are now due by January 11, 2022.* **
Introduction
Community-based knowledge bases (KBs) and knowledge graphs (KGs) are
critical to many domains. They contain large amounts of information,
used in applications as diverse as search, question-answering systems,
and conversational agents. They are the backbone of linked open data,
helping connect entities from different datasets. Finally, they create
rich knowledge engineering ecosystems, making significant, empirical
contributions to our understanding of KB/KG science, engineering, and
practices. From here forward, we use "KB" to include both knowledge
bases and knowledge graphs. Also, "KB" and "knowledge" encompass both
ontology/schema and data.
Community-based KBs come in many shapes and sizes, but they tend to
share a number of commonalities:
*
They are created through the efforts of a group of contributors,
following a set of agreed goals, policies, practices, and quality norms.
*
They are available under open licenses.
*
They are central to knowledge-sharing networks bringing together
various stakeholders.
*
They serve the needs of a community of users, including, but not
restricted to, their contributor base.
*
Many draw their content from crowdsourced resources (such as
Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap).
Examples of community-based KBs include Wikidata, DBpedia, ConceptNet,
GeoNames, FrameNet, and Yago. This special issue will highlight recent
research, challenges, and opportunities in the field of community-based
KBs and the interaction and processes between stakeholders and the KBs.
We welcome papers on a wide variety of topics. Papers that focus on the
participation of a community of contributors are especially encouraged.
Topics of interest
We are looking for studies, frameworks, methods, techniques and tools on
topics such as the following:
*
The impact of community involvement on characteristics of KBs such
as requirements, design, technology choices, policies, etc. For
example, how are KB characteristics driven by the community and
reflective of the community's needs?
*
Conversely, the impact of KB characteristics on community
involvement. For example, how do changes in these characteristics
affect the participation and behavior of members of the community?
*
Organizational challenges and solutions in developing and managing
community-based KBs.
*
Technical challenges and solutions in community-based KBs,
concerning a technical area such as:
o
Representation of knowledge and logical foundations
o
Reasoning, querying, and constraint-checking
o
Knowledge acquisition
o
Knowledge preparation (e.g., cleaning, deduplication, alignment,
merging)
o
Maintaining consistency with external sources
o
Representing and managing metadata (including issues involved in
adding metadata to relation instances)
o
Provenance
o
Quality assurance
*
User interfaces and experience, both for contributing to the KB and
using it, by different user groups.
*
Implemented metrics and quality tests to guide the community in
improving KG quality and expanding KG coverage.
*
Achieving and managing knowledge diversity, for instance, in the
form of multilinguality, multi-cultural coverage, multiple points of
view, and a diverse and inclusive contributor base.
*
Detecting and avoiding malicious, inappropriate, and misleading
content in community-based KBs.
*
Biases in community-based KBs and their impact on downstream uses of
KB content.
*
Community-based KBs in science, medicine, law, government, or other
domains.
*
Handling specialized types of knowledge (such as commonsense,
probabilistic, or linguistic knowledge) in a community setting.
*
Methods and tools to manage KB evolution, including change
detection, change management, conflict resolution, visualization of
change history.
*
Tools and affordances supporting community or collaborative
activities, including discussions, feedback, decision making, task
allocation, etc.
*
Motivations and incentives affecting community participation.
*
Approaches and metrics for community health, including but not
restricted to community growth or diversity.
*
Roles and participation profiles in communities building and
maintaining KBs.
*
Frameworks and approaches to support group decision-making and
resolve conflicts.
Types of Papers
We invite submission of Research, Survey, Ontology, and System papers,
according to the guidelines given at https://www.jws-volumes.com
<https://www.jws-volumes.com/>.
Submission Guidelines
The Journal of Web Semantics solicits original scientific contributions
of high quality. Following the overall mission of the journal, we
emphasize the publication of papers that combine theories, methods and
experiments from different subject areas in order to deliver innovative
semantic methods and applications. The publication of large-scale
experiments and their analysis is also encouraged to clearly illustrate
scenarios and methods that introduce semantics into existing Web
interfaces, contents and services.
Submission of your manuscript is welcome provided that it, or any
translation of it, has not been copyrighted or published and is not
being submitted for publication elsewhere.
Manuscripts should be prepared for publication in accordance with
instructions given in the JWS guide for authors
<http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-web-semantics/1570-8268/guide-f…>.
The submission and review process will be carried out using Elsevier's
Web-based EM system
<https://www.editorialmanager.com/JOWS/default.aspx>. Please state the
name of the SI in your cover letter and, at the time of submission,
please select “VSI:CBKB” when reaching the Article Type selection.
Upon acceptance of an article, the author(s) will be asked to transfer
copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the
widest possible dissemination of information. Elsevier's liberalpreprint
policy<https://www.elsevier.com/authors/journal-authors/submit-your-paper/sharing-…>permits
authors and their institutions to host preprints on their web sites.
Preprints of the articles will be made freely accessible viaJWS First
Look
<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?form_name=journalbrowse&jo…>.
Final copies of accepted publications will appear in print and at
Elsevier's archival online server.
Important Dates
These dates are extended by 10 weeks from the timeline of the original
announcement.
*
Submission deadline: January 10, 2022
*
Author notification: April 18, 2022
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Minor revisions due: May 2, 2022
*
Major revisions due: May 23, 2022
*
Papers appear on JWS preprint server: July 11, 2022
*
Publication: Winter 2022
Guest Editors
Tim Finin is the Willard and Lillian Hackerman Chair in Engineering and
a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
Sebastian Hellmann is the head of the “Knowledge Integration and
Language Technologies (KILT)" Competence Center at InfAI, Leipzig. He
also is the executive director and board member of the non-profit
DBpedia Association with over 30 key players
<https://www.dbpedia.org/members/overview/>in the knowledge graph area.
He earned a rank in AMiner’s top 10 of the most influential scholars in
knowledge engineering of the last decade.
David L. Martinis a Software Engineer and Research & Development
Scientist in Artificial Intelligence. He has recently joined the staff
of the Wikimedia Foundation, and has previously held positions at SRI
International, Siri, Inc., Apple, Nuance Communications, Samsung
Research America, and the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is
a Senior Member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence.
Hi everyone,
I'm here to announce an important project that the GLAM and Culture team at
the Wikimedia Foundation is taking part in during the next few weeks.
Due to Outreach having limited readership and visibility within the
movement, our community newsletters don’t always receive the attention they
deserve. To address this, we’re working with our colleagues in the Movement
Communications team to *migrate the This Month in GLAM newsletter
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter> from Outreach to
Meta-Wiki*.
Both teams are working on this task in the next few weeks in order to:
1. Increase visibility and participation in the GLAM newsletter.
2. Ensure the GLAM community has a place (Meta-Wiki) where they feel
seen, engaged, and supported by the Wikimedia community, partners, and
Foundation.
3. Increase the amount of multilingual (or translatable) content to
engage contributors from other languages and more regions.
This activity already has the support of the newsletter’s main editors. It
was also already announced in this October report in the newsletter
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2021/Contents/W…>
.
The migration of the report pages, talk pages, categories, and templates
will happen from *November 19th to 30th*. This period is important to
accommodate the migration before the reports from next month. Any other
modifications or corrections will be made before *December 15th*.
If you have any questions or ideas about the migration, please contact the
GLAM & Culture team at glam(a)wikimedia.org and the community editors at
thismonthinglam(a)gmail.com.
Best,
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer; GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>