Wikidata December 2021

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Fwd: Using wikidata to extract aditional information about entities
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 18 Dec '21

18 Dec '21

Forwarding to the list a question sent to -owners. Federico -------- Messaggio Inoltrato -------- Oggetto: Using wikidata to extract aditional information about entities Data: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 10:33:49 +0000 Mittente: Ricardo Pinto Good afternoon! My name is Ricardo Pinto, I am currently doing my thesis, and I am trying to make calls to Wikidata. I am presently using SPARQLWrapper in python to make the calls, but I am having trouble with some things that I hope you can help me with. 1. How can I get the entity identifier? Given an entity (e.g. Portugal) I need to get its identifier (e.g., Q45). Currently, I am doing this by searching on google, but I need this to be systematic. Can you help me? 2. While searching for entities related to another entity, I need to make calls using properties. Is there a way to know what the most used properties are? I need a systematic way to choose properties to search. Can you help me? Best regards, Ricardo Pinto.

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Save the date! Coolest Tool Award 2021: Friday, January 14th, 17:00 UTC
by Andre Klapper 17 Dec '21

17 Dec '21

Hi everyone! The second edition of the Coolest Tool Award https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award will happen online on Friday 14 January 2022 at 17:00 UTC! See https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1642179615 for your timezone. The awarded tools will be showcased in a virtual event, with broadcasted video and chat channels for socializing. We will send more details and links soon. Save the date, and join us celebrating the great work volunteer developers do for the Wikimedia communities. We hope to see you there! andre, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2021 -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Ghana Histo Cita-Thon 2.0
by Stephen Dakyi 17 Dec '21

17 Dec '21

Dear All, I am pleased to invite you to the Ghana Histo-Cita-thon 2.0 on Friday 17th December 2021. The Ghana Histo Cita-thon 2.0 Seeks to introduce participants on how to source for reference and cite from open Books and Journals and use it in creating and improving Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. The workshop will be followed by a month-long online contest. Kindly make your reservation by signing up here👇 https://forms.gle/UXnsUQJRV46GupEz8 For more info: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ghana_Histo_Cita-thon_2.0 Best regards, Stephen Dakyi -- Lead, Ghana Histo Cita-thon Project

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Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—December 1st, 2021
by Trey Jones 16 Dec '21

16 Dec '21

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

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Wikidata weekly summary #498
by Léa Lacroix 14 Dec '21

14 Dec '21

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…> call: Lightning talks on WikiProject Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Wikidata use for a site-specific archaeological case study (Dura-Europos, Syria), and round tripping Wikidata into Alma using Alma Refine. Agenda <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bP08VUYC3nPWOay31s7pyZHrykawVQpwlOUxBrk…>, Dec. 14th. Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Blogs - Enriching Claim Reviews - Sharing Experience From Factchecking <http://blog.schema.org/2021/12/enriching-claim-reviews-sharing.html> (schema.org/ Full Fact) - Most liked Wikidata tweets <https://addshore.com/2021/12/most-liked-wikidata-tweets/> (addshore) - Updates on the Wikidata map in 2021 <https://addshore.com/2021/12/wikidata-map-in-2021/> (addshore) - Papers - Lukas Schmelzeisen, Corina Dima, Steffen Staab: "Wikidated 1.0: An Evolving Knowledge Graph Dataset of Wikidata's Revision History", https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05003v1 - "ARTchives: a Linked Open Data native catalogue of art historians’ archive" crowdsourcing curated information on notable art historians’ archives (including Wikidata) - paper <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3019/LinkedArchives_2021_paper_10.pdf>, tool <http://artchives.fondazionezeri.unibo.it/about> Tool of the week - Explore gender diversity in a single Wikipedia article using Wikidata's API and SPARQL <https://observablehq.com/@pac02/explore-gender-diversity-in-a-single-wikipe…> - embeds.js <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lectrician1/embeds.js>: This script shows embeds on external identifier statements such as YouTube videos, Twitter tweets, Spotify playlists, Genius lyrics, and more! Other Noteworthy Stuff - Blazegraph failure playbook <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/Blazegraph_fail…> now available - Initial version of Lua access to Lexemes to be deployed on Bengali and Basque Wiktionaries <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/th…> - When creating new Wikidata statements in QuickStatements, you can now create multiple “reference groups” (documentation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:QuickStatements#Add_statement_with_sourc…> ) Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: IMA Mineral Symbol <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10113>, protective marking <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10129>, recording date <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10135> - External identifiers: Natural History Museum (London) person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10114>, Indonesian Hospital ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10115>, Music of Armenia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10116>, New Index of Middle English Verse ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10117>, World of Shakespeare ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10118>, AllHomes research location ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10119>, Australian Trade Mark Number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10120>, Harvard Art Museums ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10121>, BookDepository publisher ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10122>, Catalog of arthistoricum.net ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10123>, Database of Czech librarians ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10124>, German Newspaper Portal ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10125>, Enciclopedia d'arte italiana ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10126>, Dissernet journal ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10127>, Dissernet person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10128>, centrasia.org person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10130>, The Parliamentary Newspaper ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10131>, Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10132>, Russian Academy of Sciences person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10133>, Place Names of New Brunswick ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10134>, Pandora track ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10136>, Nintendo64EVER ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10137> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: alphabetical index <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/alphabetical_index> , International Standard Content Number ISCN <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/International_Stan…> , Number of likes <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Number_of_likes> , homophone form <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/homophone_form> , Roovet Sound <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Roovet_Sound> - External identifiers: National Library of Ireland ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Library_o…> , Famitsu game ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Famitsu_game_ID> , JSTOR artwork ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/JSTOR_artwork_ID> , NYPL Copyright Entries <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NYPL_Copyright_Ent…> , Kinomania.ru film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kinomania.ru_film_…> , Kinomania.ru actor ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kinomania.ru_actor…> , Homosaurus ID (V3) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Homosaurus_ID_(V3)> , Irish Times Profile ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Irish_Times_Profil…> , All About Birds ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/All_About_Birds_ID> , Slovak Theatre Virtual Database <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Slovak_Theatre_Vir…> , Digital Mechanism and Gear Library ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Digital_Mechanism_…> , f6s id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/f6s_id>, IRIS Marche IDs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_Marche_IDs> , Viber group ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Viber_group_ID> , Parque de la Memoria ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Parque_de_la_Memor…> , AAGM Artwork ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/AAGM_Artwork_ID> , Muz-TV ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Muz-TV_ID>, MTV Russia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MTV_Russia_ID> - Query examples: - French departments with more population than all their neighbour departements <https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTI…> (source <https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1468634283824848905?t=wj3SsLQF35…> ) - Map of places names after horses <https://w.wiki/4YVG> (source <https://twitter.com/belett/status/1470374814972059655>) - Latvian citizens by occupation <https://w.wiki/4YVH> (source <https://twitter.com/LArtour/status/1470309158503301126>) - Map of the mass graves from the Spanish Civil War <https://w.wiki/4YVK> (source <https://twitter.com/theklaneh/status/1469312604418064391>) - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects> : Cities <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Cities> Development - Mismatch Finder <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mismatch_Finder>: Developed a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it. - Preparing for Lexeme Lua access to be enabled on the first wikis. ( phab:T294637 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T294637>, phab:T294159 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T294159>) - Continuing work on migrating the termbox to vue3 (phab:T296202 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T296202>) You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filt…> . Monthly Tasks - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items> . - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> Cheers, -- Léa Lacroix Community Engagement Coordinator 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.

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Initial version of Lua access to Lexemes on Bengali and Basque Wiktionaries
by Léa Lacroix 14 Dec '21

14 Dec '21

Hi everyone, We’ve been collecting lexicographical data for quite a while now. The first applications are being built on top of it as well. One big remaining wish is to make it possible to access the data in Lexemes also from Wiktionary. We’re enabling it on the first Wiktionaries now. On December 15th, we’ll enable the *initial version of Lua access to lexicographical data* on the following wikis: - Bengali Wiktionary https://bn.wiktionary.org/ - Basque Wiktionary https://eu.wiktionary.org - Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/ - Test Wikidata https://test.wikidata.org/ The Lua interface (i.e. the available functions and methods) is documented at mw:Extension:WikibaseLexeme/Lua <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikibaseLexeme/Lua> (you can see a live example, with links to the relevant template and module, at Beta English Wiktionary: cat <https://en.wiktionary.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/cat>). If you have suggestions for improving it (e.g. extra functions that would be useful), feel free to add them to phab:T294637 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T294637>. Please note that *the Lua interface is not stable yet*; breaking changes may be made at any time, though usually not without some note on Phabricator first. We recommend not fully relying on this yet. If your wiki would nevertheless like to have Lua access while it is not stable yet, feel free to leave a note at phab:T294159 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T294159>. Otherwise, we hope to stabilize the interface soon, at which point we’ll start enabling this feature on more Wiktionaries. If you're active on another Wiktionary and would like to see the feature enabled, feel free to reach out to us after talking to your community, and we will make sure to include it in the list for future deployments.. Change dispatching, i.e. the automatic updating of local wiki pages when relevant changes on Wikidata are made, as well as integration with recent changes and the watchlist, ought to work; however, usage tracking (i.e. determining which changes on Wikidata affect the local wiki) is not very fine-grained yet: if a local page uses any data from a Lexeme, then any change to the Lexeme on Wikidata will cause the page to be rerendered and that change will be added to the recent changes on the wiki, even if the change is unrelated to the data which the page actually uses. We will improve this at a later point; in the meantime, wikis that heavily use lexicographical data may see “too many” Wikidata entries in their recent changes and watchlists. We are really happy to beta-test Lua access to Lexemes with you, and we are looking forward to your *feedback and bug reports* (they can be tracked under phab:T294159 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T294159> or on the Report a Technical Problem page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:RATP>). We would love to know *how you are using Lexemes on Wiktionary*, so when you are running your first experiments, feel free to let us know! Cheers, -- Léa Lacroix Community Engagement Coordinator 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.

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Blazegraph failure playbook
by Mike Pham 11 Dec '21

11 Dec '21

Hi all, As many of you know, there is a risk of Blazegraph, Wikidata Query Service’s backend, catastrophically failing before we are able to properly scale the service. Thus, it is important for us to have a playbook for what actions we will take in the event of such a disaster, as well as making that playbook transparently available. This Blazegraph failure playbook <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/Blazegraph_fail…> is now available, and we welcome you to take a look at it, though we hope to never use it. Best, Mike — *Mike Pham* (he/him) Sr Product Manager, Search Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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ACM UMAP 2022 - Call for Papers
by Helma Torkamaan 09 Dec '21

09 Dec '21

--- Please forward to anyone who might be interested --- --- Apologies for cross-posting --- -------------------------------------------------------- # **30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ’22)** Barcelona*, Spain, July 4–7, 2022 http://www.um.org/umap2022/ (*) Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we are planning for a hybrid conference and will accommodate online presentations where needed. Submission Deadline: - Abstracts due: February 10, 2022 (mandatory) - Full paper due: February 17, 2022 -------------------------------------------------------- **BACKGROUND AND SCOPE** ============================ **ACM UMAP** – ***User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization*** – is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. **ACM UMAP** is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI (https://sigchi.org) and SIGWEB (https://www.sigweb.org), and organized with User Modeling Inc. (https://um.org) as the core Steering Committee, extended with past years’ chairs. The proceedings are published by the **ACM** and will be part of the ACM Digital Library (https://dl.acm.org). **ACM UMAP** covers a wide variety of research areas where personalization and adaptation may be applied. The main theme of **UMAP 2022** is ***“User control in personalized systems”***. Specifically, we welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization, and adaptation in all areas of personalized systems, with an emphasis on how to balance adaptivity and user control. Below we present a short (but not prescriptive) list of topics of importance to the conference. ACM UMAP is co-located and collaborates with the ACM Hypertext conference (https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/). UMAP takes place one week after Hypertext, and uses the same submission dates and formats. We expect authors to submit research on personalized systems to UMAP and invite authors to submit their Web-related work without a focus on personalization to the Hypertext conference. The two conferences will organize one shared track on **personalized recommender systems** (same track chairs and PC, see the track description). -------------------------------------------------------- **IMPORTANT DATES** ============================ - Paper Abstracts: February 10, 2022 (mandatory) - Full paper: February 17, 2022 - Notification: April 11, 2022 - Conference: July 4-July 7, 2022 **Note**: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) -------------------------------------------------------- **CONFERENCE TOPICS** ============================ We welcome submissions related to *user modeling, personalization, and adaptation in any area*. The topics listed below are not intended to limit possible contributions. **Detailed descriptions and the suggested topics for each track are reported in the online version of the CFP on the UMAP 2022 web site.** ### **Personalized Recommender Systems*** **Track Chairs: Osnat Mokryn (University of Haifa), Eva Zangerle (University of Innsbruck, Austria) and Markus Zanker (University of Bolzano, Italy, and University of Klagenfurt, Austria)** (*) This is a joint track between ACM UMAP and ACM Hypertext (same track chairs, overlapping PC). Authors planning to contribute to this track can submit to either conference, depending on their broader interest in either Hypertext or UMAP. Track chairs organize a special issue in the journal New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. This track aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss open challenges, latest solutions and novel research approaches in the field of recommender systems. In addition to mature research works addressing technical aspects pertaining to recommendations, we also particularly welcome research contributions that address questions related to the user perception and the business value of recommender systems. ### **Adaptive Hypermedia, Semantic, and Social Web** **Track Chairs: Alexandra I. Cristea (Durham University, UK) and Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, US)** This track aims to provide a forum to researchers to discuss open research problems, solid solutions, latest challenges, novel applications, and innovative research approaches in adaptive hypermedia, semantic and social web. We invite original submissions addressing all aspects of personalization, user models building, and personal experience in online social systems. ### **Intelligent User Interfaces** **Track chairs: Elisabeth Lex (Graz University of Technology, Austria) and Marko Tkalcic (University of Primorska, Slovenia)** This topic can be characterized by exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, which may leverage solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. ### **Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning** **Track chairs: Judy Kay (University of Sydney, Australia) and Sharon Hsiao (Santa Clara University, US)** This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to present their innovative learning solutions, share acquired experience, and discuss their modeling challenges for personalized adaptive learning. ### **Fairness, Transparency, Accountability, and Privacy** **Track chairs: Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media, US) and Munindar P. Singh (NC State University, US)** Adaptive systems researchers and developers have a social responsibility to care about the impact of their technologies on individual people (users, providers, and other stakeholders) and on society. This track invites work that pertains to the science of building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, respectful of users’ privacy, and beneficial to society. ### **Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems** **Track chairs: Julita Vassileva (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) and Panagiotis Germanakos (SAP SE, Germany)** This track invites original submissions addressing the areas of personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies, including but not limited to personalization models, user models, computational personalization, design and evaluation methods, and personal experience designing personalized and adaptive behaviour change technologies. ### **Virtual Assistants and Personalized Human-robot Interaction** **Track chairs: Radhika Garg (Syracuse University, US) and Cristina Gena (University of Torino, Italy)** This track aims at investigating new models and techniques for the adaptation of synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots, social robots) to the individual user. ### **Research Methods and Reproducibility** **Track chairs: Odd Erik Gundersen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) and Dietmar Jannach (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)** This track accepts works on methodologies for the evaluation of personalized systems, benchmarks, measurement scales, with particular attention to reproducibility of results and of techniques. -------------------------------------------------------- **SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS** ============================ Please consult the conference website for the submission link: http://www.um.org/umap2022/. The maximum length is **14 pages (excluding references) in the ACM new single-column format**. We encourage papers of any length up to 14 pages; reviewers will be asked to comment on whether the length is appropriate for the contribution. **Additional review criteria are available in the online version of the CFP on the UMAP 2022 web site.** Each accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings and presented at the conference. UMAP uses a **double blind** review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' own prior work should be made in the third person. Failure to anonymize your submission results in the desk-rejection of your paper. -------------------------------------------------------- **ORGANIZERS** ============================ **General chairs** - Ludovico Boratto, University of Cagliari, Italy - Alejandro Bellogín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain - Olga C. Santos, Spanish National University for Distance Education, Spain **Program Chairs** - Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy - Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, US -------------------------------------------------------- **RELATED EVENTS** ============================ Separate calls will be sent for Workshops and Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, and Demo/Late-Breaking Results, as these have different deadlines and submission requirements. -- Helma Torkamaan Researcher University of Duisburg-Essen Interactive Systems Group Room LF 288, Forsthausweg 2, 47057 Duisburg, GERMANY helma.torkamaan(a)uni-due.de / +49 203 379-2276

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CfP International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2022 - Call for Workshop Proposals
by Francesco.Osborne 09 Dec '21

09 Dec '21

------------------------------------------------ ICWE 2022 22nd International Conference on Web Engineering Bari, Italy | July 5-8, 2022 http://icwe2022.webengineering.org/ ------------------------------------------------ Call for Workshop Proposals =========================== IMPORTANT DATES --------------- - Submission of proposals: 29 January, 2022 (23h 59 AoE) - Notification of proposal acceptance: 12 February, 2022 (23h 59 AoE) CALL --------------- ICWE’22 is inviting proposals for high-quality workshops to complement its scientific program. Workshop topics should fall within the broad area of Web Engineering, but we specifically welcome workshops tackling novel, cutting-edge topics as well as workshops covering focused Web Engineering sub-areas, and cross-disciplinary workshops. The workshop organizers are highly encouraged to include interactive and hands-on working sessions. The organizers of approved workshops are responsible for advertising their workshops, collecting papers, managing the review process, making accepted papers available to workshop participants (e.g., workshop website), and collecting the camera-ready copies and copyright forms of accepted papers (verifying that they comply with formatting rules). Organizers are expected to be present to attend, run, and manage their workshops. Conference facilities such as meeting rooms, wireless Internet and meals will be provided by the local organizers. ICWE’22 provides workshop organizers with the opportunity to publish workshop proceedings as part of its dedicated post-workshop proceedings volume to appear in Springer’s LNCS series. Typically, workshop papers are 12 pages long and peer-reviewed; other forms of contributions can be discussed with the workshop chairs. Organizers who prefer to publish their own proceedings are of course welcome as well. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------- Workshop proposals should include the following information: 1. General Information – Title of the workshop – Organizers and primary contact (name/affiliation/email) – Abstract (200 words), intended for the main ICWE conference website – Expected length of the workshop (full day, half day) – Relationship with the ICWE community and topics 2. Objectives and Scope – Goals of the workshop including a list of possible workshop topics; if available, outcomes and results of previous editions of the workshop – Plans for advertising the workshop and making the workshop visible to the community – Estimated number of submissions and of papers to be accepted. If applicable, relevant information on previous editions of the workshop – Estimated number of participants. If applicable, relevant information on previous editions of the workshop 3. Organization Details – Information about workshop organizers: names, addresses, affiliations, short bio, and name of the main contact person. (Including relevant past experience in workshop organization) – Planned list of PC members 4. Workshop Format – Format of the workshop (paper-based, discussion-based, invitation-based, work sessions, or similar); at least 1 hands-on session is highly recommended – Format of hands-on session(s) (demos, hackathon, brainstorming, discussions, case elaboration, etc.) 5. Workshop web page (URL of the draft web page, if one exists) 6. Draft Call for Papers for the workshop (the Call for Papers that you intend to send out if your workshop is accepted) Workshop proposals should be submitted as a PDF file to workshopchair.icwe2022(a)webengineering.org. WORKSHOPS CHAIRS --------------- - Cinzia Cappiello (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) - Azzurra Ragone (EY - Ernst & Young, Italy)

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DKG talk - On the broad applicability of Semantic Web technologies by Ora Lassila - 07/12 18.00CET
by Anastasia Dimou 08 Dec '21

08 Dec '21

Dear all, after the very successful panel on "20 years into ISWC: What's next beyond Knowledge Graphs?", the Distributed Knowledge Graphs (DKG) COST Action [1,2] organizes a talk series in collaboration with SWSA [3] on aspects related to the Semantic Web research. On *Tuesday 7th December at 18.00 CET** Ora Lassila will give a talk "On the broad applicability of Semantic Web technologies". I include the talk's abstract here but you can also find more information as well as the link to the online stream before the talk starts at https://cost-dkg.eu/talks. Ora Lassila: "On the broad applicability of Semantic Web technologies" About the talk: The Semantic Web, despite how it was originally advertised, was not a replacement for the World Wide Web, nor was it really knowledge representation (KR) solely for the Web. Rather, the Semantic Web is KR using Web technologies. The different technologies and standards of the Semantic Web have broad applicability in many areas distinctly outside of what we consider to be the “Web”. The DAML-S (later OWL-S) effort was one such example: apply ontologies to the problem of describing the semantics of functionality and services (in this case Web services, but the concept was more general). While the effort may not have been successful in the long term, it was an early example of the application of Semantic Web technologies and approaches to a wide variety of use cases and domains. These include agent-based computing, ubiquitous computing, context-awareness, policies, privacy, enterprise knowledge graphs, and many others. But there is still an even bigger role for Semantic Web technologies: Modern enterprise data practice is messy, with daunting problems such as data integration, elimination of “data silos”, and alignment of semantics. This “messiness” will be perpetuated until we have a practical unifying logical representation for data and semantics, and the promise of Semantic Web is that it could be this representation. Kind regards, Anastasia [1] https://cost-dkg.eu/ [2] https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA19134 [3] https://swsa.semanticweb.org/ * Tue Dec 7th 2021 at 12:00 (EST) / Wed Dec 8th 2021 at 1:00 (CST) -------

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