Hi everyone,
It’s time to nominate your favorite tool(s) for the fifth edition of the
Coolest Tool Award!! 🎉
The Coolest Tool Award seeks to spotlight the diverse range of tools
created by Wikimedia community members. These tools play a vital role in
improving the efficiency, accessibility, and functionality of Wikimedia
projects, ultimately enriching the experience for Wikimedia communities.
We’d like to invite you all to nominate your favorite & most used tools and
help us celebrate the people who create them!
To nominate your favorite tools, simply follow this link: [
https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/797991?lang=en] . Feel free to
submit multiple nominations by completing the form as many times as you'd
like. The deadline for Nomination is *May 10th 2024.* For further details
on the nomination and selection process, the Coolest Tool Award academy,
and the upcoming award ceremony, please visit:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award.
We plan to award the coolest tools in a variety of categories (see last
year’s categories
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award/2022#2022_Winners> [2]
for an example). Excitingly, we're returning to an in-person event for the
first time since 2019, with winners set to be unveiled at Wikimania 2024.
If you have any questions or suggestions, don't hesitate to reach out via
the Talk Page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Coolest_Tool_Award>.
We're here to help!
Thank you for your participation and recommendations.
Regards,
Onyinyechi, for the 2024 Coolest Tool Academy
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award#Coolest_Tool_Academy
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award/2022#2022_Winners
Hello all!
The Search Platform Team usually holds an open meeting on the first
Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to
Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query
Service (WCQS), etc.!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST
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
Have fun and see you soon!
Guillaume
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*Guillaume Lederrey* (he/him)
Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello all,
Are you ever frustrated about different entities on similar things including different things, but also too frustrated with the current schema tools to help standardization?
In the coming weeks, we are going to test a new output design for the Shex Simple Online Validator. We want to see if it is easier to use than the current design, and get feedback on what further things to include.
To do this, we need wikidatans to test the new design and do an interview about it. If this sounds like something you would be interested in, consider signing up here: https://datumprikker.nl/pwx27abv4daqq4vr
For more information, check out the information on how to use the tool and the changelog so far on my user page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:M.alten.tue
We look forward to seeing you at an interview.
Kind regards,
Mennolt van Alten
Master thesis student Data Science
23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., November 11-15, 2024
http://iswc2024.semanticweb.org
Call for Tutorials:
http://tinyurl.com/iswc2024Tutorials
Submissions due: May 23, 2024
Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2024
ISWC is the premier venue for presenting state of the art research and
innovative systems related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data, attracting
a large number of high quality submissions every year and participants from
both academia and industry. ISWC brings together researchers from different
areas, such as knowledge representation, artificial intelligence,
databases, natural language processing, information systems, human computer
interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc., who investigate,
develop and use novel methods and technologies for representing, accessing,
interpreting, and using information on the Web in a more effective way.
== Call for Tutorials ==
Tutorials are the perfect occasion for participants to deepen their
knowledge on a topic: for early-stage researchers, it may mean learning
about basic or advanced topics mainly related to research methods and
Semantic Web technologies; for experienced researchers, it may mean having
the chance to acquire new skills on specialised research areas and
approaches that could complement their pre-existing research focus; for
practitioners, it may mean to gain knowledge and initial “seeds” to start
new experimentations and applications.
For ISWC attendees, we expect tutorials of the following types:
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Tutorials providing an introduction to well established Semantic Web and
Knowledge Graph aspects (e.g. RDF, OWL, SPARQL, SHACL, linked data
principles, etc.) or to research methodologies in the field (e.g. FAIR
principles, Open Science, etc.).
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Tutorials describing the cross-link between Semantic Web/Knowledge Graph
technologies and other disciplines/application domains (e.g. big data,
machine learning, generative AI, etc.) to explore the complementarities and
the possible value they could bring each other
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Tutorials presenting specific technologies/trends or applications/tools
in Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph.
Track Chairs:
Irene Celino - Cefriel, Italy
Raghava Mutharaju - IIIT-Delhi, India
Details: https://tinyurl.com/iswc2024Tutorials
For any question or request, please contact the Doctoral Consortium Chairs
at iswc2024-tutorial-proposal(a)easychair.org.
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Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting.
Wikimedia Germany is organising a special networking meeting for
German-speaking cultural heritage practitioners who use wikidata and
wikibase to build linked open cultural heritage data. Our goal is to
initiate a German language community of practice. If this sounds like you,
please take a look at what we have planned (details below) and consider
joining us in June or signing on to our mailing list
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/openglam-de.lists.wikimedia.org/>
to stay in the loop.
Thanks!
Lucy
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*Netzwerktreffen "kulturelles Erbe, Linked Open Data und das Wikiversum"
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Netzwerktreffen_offene_Kulturdaten_2024>*
Freitag 14.06.24, 10:00 AM - 15:00 PM
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24, 10963 Berlin
*Remote-Teilnahme auch möglich*
Ein 1-tägiges Treffen in Berlin zur Vernetzung von deutschsprachigen
Fachleuten aus dem Kulturerbe-Sektor und Community-Mitgliedern, die bereits
mit den Wikimedia-Projekten am Aufbau von Linked Open Data arbeiten. Das
Ziel des Treffens ist es, eine Community of Practice zu initiieren. Diese
soll sich regelmäßig treffen, um bewährte Praxisbeispiele auszutauschen und
neue zu entwickeln, Fachwissen zu erweitern, Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse
zu teilen, Strategien zur Interessenvertretung und Finanzierung zu
diskutieren und Kooperationen aufzubauen. Diese Community of Practice wird
ein Ort sein, an dem sowohl die Erfahrenen ihr Wissen teilen und
austauschen als auch die Anfänger*innen ihre ersten Schritte machen können.
Für diese ersten Netzwerktreffen möchten wir diejenigen zusammenbringen,
die bereits Erfahrung mit der Nutzung von Wikidata/-base für den Aufbau von
LOD zum kulturellen Erbe haben und daran interessiert sind, Gleichgesinnte
kennenzulernen. Egal ob institutioneller Datenverantwortlicher*innen,
Forscher*innen oder Freiwilliger*innen, schließen Sie sich uns an!
Ziel des 1-tägigen Treffen:
- Vernetzung von deutschsprachigen Fachleuten aus dem Kulturerbe-Sektor
und Community-Mitgliedern. Das Treffen bietet die Möglichkeit, Kolleg*innen
aus dem gesamten Bereich des kulturellen Erbes kennenzulernen, die mit
Wikidata und Wikibase arbeiten.
- Aufbau einer Community of Practice: Diese soll sich regelmäßig
treffen, um bewährte Praxisbeispiele auszutauschen und neue zu entwickeln,
Fachwissen zu erweitern, Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse zu teilen, Strategien
zur Interessenvertretung und Finanzierung zu diskutieren und Kooperationen
aufzubauen.
*Programm, weitere Infos und Anmeldung hier
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Netzwerktreffen_offene_Kulturdaten_2024>.*
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Dr. Lucy Patterson (she/her)
Project Manager Digital Cultural Heritage
(Work days: Mon-Thu)
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0https://wikimedia.de
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