Heya folks :)
Here's the Wikidata summary for the last week. The wiki version is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_09_28
= Development =
* Updated demo system http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de/
* Added per-language uniqueness restriction for property labels (You
can only have one property with a given name in a language. For items
this applies for the combination of label and description.)
* Tests for noexternallanglinks, CreateProperty, PropertyView
* Finished base of DataTypes and DataValues extensions
* Added resource module for loading site information
* Improved change handling on the client, including when items are
deleted and inserting changes that affect the client wiki in the
client’s recent changes (still rough)
* New “List all datatypes” Special page
* Finished property view. Property entities can be edited now
* Changes to some of the containing structures in the API, items to
entities and item to entity
* Change to token handling (gettoken has died in flames, use edit
token from action=tokens instead)
* Some cleanup for the security audit
* Worked on encapsulating auto completion widget from
EditableValue.autocompleteInterface
* Started work on supporting access to remote wikis via the ORMTable class
* Discussion and fixes regarding transaction logic in core
* Made a git branch for the first deployment that is currently being
reviewed by WMF (current review status:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-September/063508.html)
* Test coverage for Wikibase and its extensions is now recorded and
visible online: http://wikidata-docs.wikimedia.de/testcoverage/
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint
for what we’re working on next.
You can follow our commits at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extension…
and view the subset awaiting review at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions…
= Discussions/Press =
* JSON for phase 2:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Phase_2_JSON
* Concept for entity selection widget:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Entity_selection_widget…
= Events =
see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* Leipziger Semantic Web Tage/MLODE
* Datengarten
* upcoming: Wikipedia Stammtisch Berlin
* upcoming: Berlin Open Source Meetup
* upcoming: Data Days
= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* If you are doing a Wikidata intro or something like that at an event
we can send you some swag like stickers and flyers. Let me know well
in advance please so it reaches you in time.
* We have a shiny new contribute page
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Contribute
= Open Tasks for You =
* Help update the press page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Press
* Pick one of the open coding tasks here:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer&keywords…
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Community Communications for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Obentrautstr. 72
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.
Heya folks :)
We've updated the demo system again. We're getting into phase 2
territory now but that's not very visible yet. What you can give a try
however is that changes on the repository should now show up in the
recent changes of the client.
The git tag is fb4f3e9af2e43b0035b05fcf8ad88c887bfc95d8.
http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Community Communications for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Obentrautstr. 72
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.
Hi there,
are we nearing some real deployment soon? Did not really hear any info
on this lately... nor found some maintained general project schedule
with real dates... Will Hungarian Wikipedia launch Wikidata soon? What
about some "official" press???
Cheers,
Kozuch
10th ESWC 2013 -- Semantics and Big Data
May 26-30, 2013. Montpellier, France.
http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/
==== Call for Workshops ====
The organizers the 10th ESWC cordially invite you to submit a workshop proposal. ESWC is a major venue for discussing the latest scientific results and innovations in the field of Semantic Web technologies.
Co-located workshops at ESWC conferences are distinguished meeting points for discussing ongoing work and latest ideas related to semantics and the Semantic Web. Of particular interest are workshop proposals with an interdisciplinary standpoint, proposals focusing on a specific technology of general interest, or gathering a sub-community. We encourage the submission of workshop proposals on:
- Fundamental problems of the semantic web such as heterogeneity, scalability and distribution,
- Applications of Semantic Web technologies in specific domains,
- Important enabling technologies and their adaptation to the needs of the Semantic Web, and
- Aspects of Semantic Web research that have been neglected so far.
*** General Information and Criteria ***
Each proposal will be reviewed by the members of the workshop programme committee, and ranked based on the overall quality of the proposal and the workshop's fit to the conference as detailed below. Their recommendation will determine the final decision on the acceptance/rejection of each proposal, which is to be taken by the workshop and tutorial chairs as well as by the local and the general chair of ESWC 2013.
The criteria for judging the quality of workshop proposals are as follows:
- Co-located workshops cover topics falling in the general scope of the ESWC conference (refer to http://www.eswc-conferences.org).
- Workshops are intended to be genuine interactive events and not mini-conferences.
- We welcome workshops with creative structures and organizations that attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions.
- They are clearly focused.
- There is potentially a significant community interested in the workshop's topic.
- Workshop duration can be half a day or a full day.
- We advise having more than one organizer and no more than four, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic.
In case overlapping workshops are proposed, the workshop chair may contact the organisers to discuss the possibility of merging workshops. Please note that the duration of a workshop might need to be adjusted based on the overall number of submissions received. Further, workshops that receive less than 5 submissions or have less than 10 people registered at the early registration deadline might be canceled.
The organizers of accepted workshops will be responsible for their own reviewing process, publicity (e.g., website and call for papers), and proceedings production. They will be required to closely cooperate with the Workshop Chair and the ESWC 2013 local organizers to finalize all organizational details. Workshop attendees must pay the ESWC 2013 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference registration fee.
Organizers of workshops and tutorials will get a free registration for workshop and tutorials, i.e. they will only have to pay the main conference fees.
Further, each workshop or tutorial that attracts more than 15 registered participants (excluding the organizers) will get one full registration for the conference. This registration can be used for example to pay for an invited speaker.
*** Submission Guidelines ***
Workshop proposals have to be submitted via Easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2013workshops). Each proposal must consist of a single PDF document, not longer than 3 pages, which contains the following information:
1. The title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying its goals and motivation.
2. A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest at this time.
3. A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest, the workshop audience, as well as the expected number of participants.
4. A brief description (draft outline) of the proposed workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, hacking session, or general discussion.
5. A list of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have to be known and confirmed at the time of the proposal).
6. An indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a half-day or full-day event.
7. If there have been previous editions of the workshop, their short description, including URLs as well as some statistics about submissions and acceptance rate, plus number of participants.
8. The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the proposed organizing committee and short description of their relevant experience. Preferably a single contact person per submission.
The best papers of each workshop will be included in the supplementary proceedings of ESWC 2013, which will appear in the Springer LNCS series.
*** Workshop Chair ***
Johanna Völker (University of Mannheim, DE)
voelker(a)informatik.uni-mannheim.de
*** Programme Committee ***
Chris Bizer (University of Mannheim, DE)
Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck, AT)
Aldo Gangemi (CNR Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, IT)
Asuncion Gomez-Perez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES)
Frank van Harmelen (VU University Amsterdam, NL)
Pascal Hitzler (Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, US)
Enrico Motta (The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)
*** Important Dates ***
Workshop proposals due: Nov 23, 2012 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Notification of acceptance: Dec 7, 2012 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Workshop Web site due: Dec 17, 2012 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Workshop camera-ready proceedings due: Apr 29, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Workshop days: May 26 and May 27, 2013
*** Suggested Timeline for Workshops ***
Submission deadline: March 4, 2013
Notifications: April 1, 2013
Camera ready version: April 15, 2013
10th ESWC 2013 -- Semantics and Big Data
May 26-30, 2013. Montpellier, France.
http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/
==== Call for Tutorials ====
ESWC 2013 invites tutorials that address the interests of its varied audience: people new to the Semantic Web, Semantic Web researchers and practitioners that wish to learn new technologies, users of Semantic Web technologies, and representatives of government and funding agencies as well as potential private investors in Semantic Web technologies. We welcome submissions of tutorial proposals on all major topics related to semantic technologies.
We especially solicit proposals for tutorials of the following types:
- Tutorials with a coherent theme providing an introduction to new semantic technologies and trends.
- Tutorials describing the application of semantic technologies in specific domains (e.g., life-sciences, e-government, e-commerce etc.).
- Tutorials presenting techniques from other research fields that are of relevance for Semantic Web research especially in relationship to the tracks of the conference (e.g., techniques from social science, database techniques, NLP techniques etc.).
Tutorials can be half a day or a full day.
We advise having more than one presenter and no more than three, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic.
Tutorials may focus entirely on theoretical aspects; however, we encourage organisers to incorporate hands-on sessions where appropriate. The tutorials should reach a good balance between the topic coverage and its relevance to the community.
Timeline for Tutorials
----------------------
Proposals due: Nov 23, 2012 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Notification of acceptance: Dec 7, 2012 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Tutorial Web site due: Dec 17, 2012 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Camera-ready material due: Apr 29, 2013 - 23:59 Hawaii Time
Tutorial days: May 26 and May 27, 2013
Responsibilities
----------------
Organizers of accepted tutorials are responsible for preparing and maintaining a Web site that describes the tutorial and includes all relevant information. Organizers are also responsible for submitting the material to be given to attendees (slide sets, additional teaching material, software installation and usage guides for practical hands-on sessions, etc.) to the Tutorial Chair. The ESWC 2013 Organizing Committee is responsible for providing publicity for the tutorials as part of the conference publicity activities, and on-site logistical support to the organizers and attendees.
General Information
-------------------
Organizers of workshops and tutorials will get a free registration for workshop and tutorials, i.e. they will only have to pay the main conference fees. Further, each workshop or tutorial that attracts more than 15 registered participants (excluding the organizers) will get one full registration for the conference. This registration can be used for example to pay for an invited speaker.
Submission details
------------------
Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages, using an 11 pt font for the body of the text of the proposal and should contain the following information:
- Abstract (200 words maximum, for inclusion on the ESWC 2013 website).
- Tutorial description: More specifically, it should specify the objectives of the tutorial and relevance to ESWC 2013, include enough details on the scope of the material to be covered and the depth to which it will be covered and specify the intended audience and any prerequisite knowledge. Appropriate references to the material to be covered by the tutorial must be included.
- Tutorial length. The tutorial can be full or half day (if the tutorial can be either length, please be sure to identify which material is included for each length).
- Specify other venues to which the tutorial or part thereof has or will be presented, in addition to explaining how the current tutorial differs from the other editions. Links to the slides of those tutorial editions should be included in the proposal.
- Brief professional biography of the presenter(s) indicating previous training and speaking experience (such as teaching and tutorial presentation).
Each proposal will be reviewed by the members of the tutorial programme committee, and ranked based on the overall quality of the proposal and the tutorial's fit to the conference. Their recommendation will determine the final decision on the acceptance/rejection of each proposal.
Submission
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Submission will be through the Easychair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2013tutorials
Programme Committee
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Avi Bernstein
Carole Goble
Craig Knoblock
Marko Grobelnik
Pascal Hitzler
Sören Auer
Tom Heath
Tutorials Chair
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Stefan Schlobach
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fabien, inria, @fabien_gandon, http://fabien.info
*Apologies for cross-posting*
On September 23-24-25, the Multilingual Linked Open Data for Enterprises
Workshop(MLODE) will happen in Leipzig, Germany and is co-located with
SABRE and
the Leipziger Semantic Web Day. Please find all information here:
http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode
News
* See the people attending the conference in our people viewer (add
yourself, if
you are attending) -http://mlode.nlp2rdf.org/people/view.html
* In parallel to the code-a-thon there will be an Apache Stanbol and Linked
Media Framework Tutorial from 9 am to 12:30 pm (please join no later
than 10 am)
and a LOD2 Stack Tutorial at 2 pm -
http://wiki.aksw.org/Events/2012/LeipzigerSemanticWebDay/Tutorien
* Twitter tag #mlode
* Program published -http://tinyurl.com/mlode-schedule
* Please apply for lightning talks here: mlode2012 -at-
lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de
* Don't forget to send your submission of the Monnet Challenge John
McCrae - to
win up to 600 Euro -http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode/monnet-challenge
* Code-a-thon: We will provide support and assistance for developers new
to RDF
* If you arrive on Sunday, you can join us for the zero day, where we
brainstorm
for the code-a-thon: Leipziger Zoo at 10 am and the bar Kicker IN at 7 pm
* The workshop is accompanied by data post proceeding Special Issue in the
Semantic Web Journal -
http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-multilingual-linked-open-data…
We would like to thank our sponsors for supporting the workshop:
* The Working MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group -
http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/
* The Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS) EU Research Project -
http://www.iks-project.eu/
* The Monnet Project -http://www.monnet-project.eu/
We all hope to see you there,
Sebastian Hellmann and Steven Moran
on behalf of the whole MLODE organisation committee
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Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann
Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
Events:
* http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode (Leipzig, Sept. 23-24-25, 2012)
* http://wole2012.eurecom.fr (*Deadline: July 31st 2012*)
Projects: http://nlp2rdf.org , http://dbpedia.org
Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann
Research Group: http://aksw.org
Hey,
I have some questions/remarks on the "Complete Datamodel in WON" section
Markus wrote up yesterday:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Data_model#Complete_Datamodel_in_W…
There are several things we have not modelled yet, which I'm currently not
going to comment on. For those we did already implement or thought about
implementing, there are a few things that do not match what's written in
this section.
> SiteLanguageCode
All occurrences of this should be replaced by GlobalSiteIdentifier, as it's
NOT a language code.
> ItemDescription := 'ItemDescription(' Item {TitleRecord}
[MultilingualTextValue] [MultilingualTextValue] {Statement} ')'
This is missing the aliases stuff, which would be { UserLanguageCode String
}.
> GeoCoordinatesValue := 'GeoCoordinatesValue(' decimal decimal
decimal ')'
Altitude is probably something we will not have in many cases, so I think
this ought to be optional. Another optional argument would be the globe to
which the coordinates belong. Different globes have different ways of
measuring coordinates, so a specific set of coordinates that is valid on
one might mean something else on another and simply be invalid on a third.
> PropertyDescription := 'PropertyDescription(' Property {TitleRecord}
[MultilingualTextValue] [MultilingualTextValue] ')'
Right now the Property interface is very similar to the Item one, except
that Item has what we're calling sitelinks (in the here discussed WON it's
called TitleRecords), and property does not. That's the first difference.
Copy paste error? Or am I misinterpreting the notation?
As with Item, it's missing the aliases.
Although we have not implemented this yet, the Entity interface implies
that it contains a list of statements. I added this after some discussion
with Denny. As a result, both Items and Properties have a list of
statements. That's the third difference with the WON stuff. Here the
question is if non-Item Entities should have statements or not. There is no
consensus on this within the team yet, so I will start a new thread about
it so we can discuss it in more detail.
Cheers
--
Jeroen De Dauw
http://www.bn2vs.com
Don't panic. Don't be evil.
--
Hey,
There is some disagreement regarding the interface to access statements in
various entities.
== Current implementation ==
This is not fully implemented yet, but it's what the interface implies will
be done.
Entities contain a list of statements. In other words, all items,
properties and queries can have statements.
Obvious objection: "statements" for properties and queries should not have
associated rank and references. They could just have a list of claims.
Original reason to go with this approach anyway: the alternative is to put
statement handling in Item and add claim handling in either both Property
and Query or in a common base. This would result in duplication and loss of
common interface for the Entities.
== New proposal ==
I think we can accommodate all the concerns listed above as follows:
* All Entities provide access to a list of claims.
* Properties and Queries contain a list of claims.
* Items contain a list of statements to which they provide access both as
list of statements and list of claims. The apparent list of claims would
correspond to a filter on rank=primary followed by a map from statement to
it's claim on the list of statements.
Any objections to implementing it like that?
Cheers
--
Jeroen De Dauw
http://www.bn2vs.com
Don't panic. Don't be evil.
--
Hello all,
I was wondering, now that Wikidata breaks the assumption that pages
store wikitext, has it been considered that Wikidata concept pages could
actually use schema.org markup? Wikidata could possibly read in data
from other web pages which use schema.org markup, but what about the
Wikidata pages themselves having the markup?
Max Klein
Wikipedia in Residence
kleinm(a)oclc.org
+17074787023