Hey folks :)
Adam and I will be holding another office hour on February 3rd at 5pm
UTC. See http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Wikidata+office+ho…
for your timezone. We will be meeting in #wikimedia-office on
freenode IRC.
The topics will be:
* short update on the current state of Wikidata
* questions about the development plan for 2014+
(https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan)
* any other questions/discussion
We will make logs available for those who can't attend.
Hope to see many of you there!
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
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********************* CALL FOR PAPERS *********************
SUBMISSION DUE DATE: June 1st 2014 (abstract), June 15th 2014 (full paper)
SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE UBIQUITOUS SEMANTIC WEB (
http://www.ijswis.org/?q=node/49)
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON SEMANTIC WEB AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Guest Editor:
• Dr. Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
• Dr. Shonali Krishnaswamy, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R),
Singapore
• Dr. Yuan-Fang Li, Monash University, Australia
• Prof. Dr. Manfred Hauswirth, Digital Enterprise Research
Institute, Ireland
INTRODUCTION:
The recent years have witnessed an explosive growth of smart devices
(phones, tablets, etc.), with iOS and Android being the two leading
platforms. Collectively Android and iOS dominate the smart devices market,
accounting for more than 90% of the market share.
Typically equipped with a comprehensive operating system, versatile
connectivity options, rich multimedia support, various sensing capabilities
and generous computational resources, smart, mobile devices has truly
enabled ubiquitous and situation-aware communication. We believe it is an
area of tremendous growth potential for the adoption of semantic
technologies.
After more than a decade of active research, tremendous progress has been
made in fundamental research areas, including ontology reasoning, query
answering, Linked Data, among others. However, the mobile setting is an
emerging research area and many unique challenges need to be addressed for
realizing the ubiquitous Semantic Web. On portable devices, such challenges
include, for example, limited computing capabilities, battery power,
connectivity and bandwidth, trustworthiness of devices, services,
context-aware semantic computing, user profiling, privacy issues, to name a
few.
OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE:
The special issue welcomes original, high-quality research works on the
Ubiquitous Semantic Web. These include theoretical, applied research as
well as descriptions of innovative application of Semantic Web technologies
in the ubiquitous setting. Wherever applicable, submissions should
demonstrate the contribution of the research through a systematic
evaluation.
RECOMMENDED TOPICS:
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited
to) the following:
• The optimization and adaptation of semantic infrastructure
(ontology reasoning, SPARQL and conjunctive query answering, etc.) on
mobile devices: performance, scalability, power consumption, etc.
• User and context modeling
• Presentation and visualization of semantic data on mobile devices
• Production and consumption of semantic data on mobile devices
• Security, trust, and privacy issues on the Ubiquitous Semantic Web
• Semantic sensors and sensor networks
• Linked Stream Data processing
• Semantic, context-aware matchmaking
• Semantic ubiquitous cloud computing
• Development, testing, deployment tools and environment for
ubiquitous semantic applications
• Application of Semantic Web languages, techniques and systems on
mobile devices
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special
theme issue on The Ubiquitous Semantic Web on or before June 1st 2014
(abstract) and June 15th 2014 (full paper). All submissions must be
original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED
AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS
at http://www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines-for-submission.aspx.
Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.
After submitting the paper, please also inform the guest editors by email,
indicating the paper ID assigned by the submission system. If a submission
is based on a prior conference or workshop publication, the journal
submission must demonstrate substantial differences/improvement. For such
an extended manuscript, please explicitly cite previous publications on
which the current submission is based, along with a note explaining the
main differences/improvements.
More information can be found on the special issue web site:
http://www.ijswis.org/?q=node/49. Please follow the journal's guidelines
for submissions. Initial submission should be made as a PDF document to the
EasyChair website. Please include, in accordance with the journal's
guidelines, 5-10 keywords, to assist both with indexing and reviewer
selection. Contact: ijswiswdq20130(a)easychair.org
KEY DATES:
• Abstract submission due: June 1st 2014
• Full paper due: June 15th 2014
• Notification: November 15th 2014
• Final manuscript due: December 15th 2014
• Estimated publication: Q1 2015
ABOUT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON SEMANTIC WEB AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
The IJSWIS is an archival journal that publishes high-quality manuscripts
covering all aspects of the Semantic Web with relevance for Computer
Science and Information Systems communities. Papers describing original
research, encompassing new algorithms, languages, computing techniques,
architectures, frameworks, modeling, methodology, system development and
evaluation, and path-breaking applications, are invited.
This journal is an official publication of the Information Resources
Management Association
http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-semantic-web-inform….
Editor-in-Chief: Amit Sheth
Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)
PUBLISHER:
The International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS)
is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the
"Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical
Information Science Reference", "Business Science Reference", and
"Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information
regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.
All inquires should be should be directed to the attention of:
Yuan-Fang Li
Guest Editor
International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS)
E-mail: ijswiswdq20130(a)easychair.org
All manuscript submissions to the special issue should be sent through the
online submission system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijswiswdq20130
* * * * * *
Best regards
Yuan-Fang
Hoi,
I have been to the DBpedia conference in Amsterdam. They want to work with
us in making the data in both DBpedia and Wikidata as good as we can make
it.
I have written an RFC [2] where I ask for comments on a proposed process
for both the identification of differences between the originating
Wikipedia and Wikidata and the inclusion of data that is new to Wikidata.
Really relevant is that many of the people present at the conference were
representing GLAM partners like Europeana and the Dutch National Library.
Given that this may impact our future GLAM projects, this is an RFC that is
relevant to both the Wikidata and the WMF GLAM community.
Thanks,
GerardM
[1]
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/01/dbpediaamsterdam-confererence-up…
[2]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot_requests#RFC_-_DBpedia_import_pr…
Hello everyone,
This weeks summary is now up, on Wikidata now. I moved over all the past
archives as well from #1 to #94. In this update it mainly covers the recent
deployment of quantities on Wikidata.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_01_31
Also, people have shown interest in having the full summary sent to the
list instead of a link as currently done. If people are willing, I would
not mind emailing the full summary to people if this is what people want,
please share! :)
John
Hey folks :)
We have just deployed the initial version of quantities. This means
you are now able to enter things like the number of inhabitants of a
country. In future versions we will add support for units to this. It
might take a bit for all properties to be created that were waiting
for the quantities datatype. I hope you'll do awesome things with it!
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager 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 27/681/51985.
Hey folks :)
Here's what's been going on around Wikidata this week:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2014_01_24
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager 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 27/681/51985.
Hey :)
Not long ago we enabled language links via Wikidata for Wikisource.
This seems to have gone rather smoothly. Thanks to everyone who
helped! But as you know this was only the start. What is actually more
interesting is access to the data in Wikidata like the date of birth
of an author or the year a book was published. We have planned this
for February 25th (unless any issues arise). You will then be able to
use the data in your articles. I hope this will open up a lot of new
opportunities for you.
If you have any questions
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikisource is a good place to
find help.
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager 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 27/681/51985.
Hey folks :)
I have just published our plan for Wikidata development for 2014+. You
can find it at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan
Some of the things on there have already been started. If you have any
comments or questions please leave them on the talk page there. Adam
and I will also be holding an office hour soon that will also give you
a chance to ask questions about the plan. I will send another email
about that in a bit.
Let's make Wikidata rock even more than it already does. There is a
lot left to do. If you want to help out please ping me and let me know
which area you are interested in.
Cheers
Lydia
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager 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 27/681/51985.