Hello Michael, Nicholas et list,
I hope you don't mind me jumping in here with a few comments on selected highlights of this thread.
>>> Taking /music as an example...
I wonder if you have looked at book data? I am working on issues to do with linked (open?) book data and it would be useful to compare notes.
>>> wikipedia tends to conflate... composition with recording with release...
On the other hand, data does exist that separates these (and more!) entity types out very clearly, and it's potentially highly *linked* but it's unlikely to be *open*. See:
http://www.ddex.net/ddex-present - ddex descriptive data schemas, but also note the links there to IDs for
-names (ISNI)
-compositions (ISWC)
-recordings (ISRC)
-releases (GRid)
These are all industry-standard IDs, and thus pretty stable. Maybe a starting point?
>>> ...domains where there's no established (open) authority (eg the equivalent of musicbrainz for films)...
EIDR? http://eidr.org/ - " EIDR is operated on a non-profit cost-recovery basis..." but maybe you get the stability and granularity you pay for? Plus; "... EIDR is founded on the principle of open participation and welcomes all ecosystem players (commercial and non-profit) to join the Registry as registrant, lookup user or even a promoter. The Registry is intended to provide a foundational namespace for A/V objects that can be leveraged by participant in the eco-system to further their own business needs and offerings." - http://eidr.org/resources/
Cheers,
Michael
Hello everyone.
Sorry for the off-topic, but I'm sure in the list there are
people interested in this conference on meda-data and semantics
technologies.
King regards.
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## MTSR 2012: Metadata and Semantics Research Conference
November 28-30, 2012
University of Cádiz, Spain - Edificio Constitución 1812
http://mtsr2012.uca.es
Following the success of the first five editions (MTSR'05, MTSR'07,
MTSR'09, MTSR'10 and MTSR'11), the sixth International Conference on
Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'12) aims to bring together
researchers and practitioners that share a common interest in metadata, its
representation, its semantics and its diverse applications to Information
Systems.
## Scope and topics
Contributions are welcome on every topic related to Metadata and their
relationships with Ontologies, Semantic Web, Knowledge Management and
Software Engineering, such as:
### I. Foundations
* Typology of metadata and metadata uses
* The value and cost of metadata
* Quality evaluation in the use of Metadata
* Metadata reusability
* New or revised metadata schemas or application profilesv
* Metadata standardization
* Empirical studies on metadata and/or ontologies usage
### II. Languages and Frameworks for Metadata Management
* SGML, XML, UML in theory and practice
* Languages and Frameworks for Ontology Management
* Metadata and the Semantic Web
* Metadata and Knowledge Management
* Metadata and Software Engineering
* Metadata application of Semantic Web technologies
* Ontologies and Ontology-based Knowledge Management Systems
### III. Case Studies
* Metadata and ontologies for librarianship, management of historical
archives and archeological research
* Metadata and ontologies for the design of innovative products and
processes
* Metadata and ontologies for health, biological and clinical information
management
* Metadata and ontologies in finance, tourism and public administrations
* Metadata and ontologies in industry
* Metadata and ontologies in education
* Metadata and ontologies in agriculture, food and environment
### IV. Technological Issues
* Technologies for Metadata and ontology storage
* Technologies for Metadata and ontology integration
* Technologies for Metadata extraction and navigation, querying and
editing of ontologies
* Technologies for Learning Objects management
## Paper submission
Interested authors can submit to EasyChair [2] either full papers (12
pages) or short papers (6 pages) reporting complete or ongoing research
respectively. Papers should be original and not previously submitted to
other Conference or Journals. The main Conference will be preceded by a
Workshop/Tutorial Day, which aims at presenting new topics, frontiers and
ongoing researches in the Metadata, Ontology and Semantic Research fields.
Proceedings will be published by Springer in the CCIS book series [3].
In addition, best papers will be selected for publishing revised versions
at several International Journals covering the diversity of topics.
Authors of accepted papers will be asked to register to the Conference
and present their work in the form of either oral presentation or poster
presentation.
Looking forward to see you in Cadiz [4], the oldest continuously-inhabited
city in the Southwestern Europe.
## Important Dates
* *2012, April 15th*: Title and abstract (500 words) submission - not
mandatory
* *2012, July 20th*: Paper submission
* *2012, Sept 1st*: Acceptance/rejection notification
* *2012, Sept 15st*: Camera-ready papers due
* *2012, Nov 28-30th*: Conference at University of Cadiz
## Program Chairs
* Juan Manuel Dodero, University of Cádiz, Spain
* Pythagoras P. Karampiperis, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
## Organization Chairs
* Manuel Palomo Duarte, University of Cádiz, Spain
* Iván Ruiz Rube, University of Cádiz, Spain
* Giannis Stoitsis, IEEE
## Steering Committee
* Miguel-Ángel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain
* Nikos Manouselis, Agro-Know Technologies, Greece
* Fabio Sartori, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
## Local Organization Committee:
* Antonio Balderas Alberico, University of Cádiz, Spain
* Daniel Crespo Bernal, University of Cádiz, Spain
* Nuria Hurtado Rodríguez, University of Cádiz, Spain
* Manuel Palomo Duarte, University of Cádiz, Spain
* Iván Ruiz Rube, University of Cádiz, Spain
* José Tomás Tocino García, University of Cádiz, Spain.
## Program Committee members
* Nikos Palavitsinis, Greek Research & Technoogy Network, Greece
* Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute (NORWAY)
* Arif Altun, Hacettepe University (TURKEY)
* Luis Anido Rifón (SPAIN)
* Petek Askar, Izmir University of Economics (TURKEY) *(to be confirmed)*
* Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Democritus University of Thrace (GREECE)
* Tomaž Bartol, University of Ljubljana (SLOVENIA)
* Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento (ITALY) *(to be confirmed)*
* Gerhard Budin, University of Vienna (AUSTRIA)
* Kürsat Cagiltay, METU (TURKEY) *(to be confirmed)*
* Caterina Caracciolo, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (ITALY)
* Artem Chebotko, University of Texas - Pan American (USA)
* Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete (GREECE) *(to be
confirmed)*
* Rafael Corchuelo, University of Seville (SPAIN)
* Constantina Costopoulou, Agricultural University of Athens (GREECE)
* Sally Jo Cunningham, Waikato University (NEW ZEALAND)
* Erdogan Dogdu, TOBB Teknoloji ve Ekonomi University (TURKEY)
* Emmanouel Garoufallou, Dept. of Library Science and Information
Systems, TEI of Thessaloniki (GREECE)
* Inigo San Gil, Long Term Ecological Research Network (USA) *(to be
confirmed)*
* Nikos Houssos, National Documentation Centre (GREECE)
* Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (SPAIN)
* Pankaj Jaiswal, Oregon State University (USA)
* Dimitris Kanellopoulos, University of Patras (GREECE)
* Johannes Keizer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (ITALY) *(to be confirmed)*
* Christian Kop, University of Klangenfurt (AUSTRIA)
* José Emilio Labra Gayo, University of Oviedo (SPAIN)
* Manuel Lama Penín, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (SPAIN)
* Nikos Manouselis, Agro-Know Technologies (GREECE)
* William Moen, University of North Texas (USA)
* Xavier Ochoa, Centro de Tecnologías de Información Guayaquil (ECUADOR)
* Matteo Palmonari, University of Milano-Bicocca (ITALY)
* Laura Papaleo, University of Genova (ITALY)
* Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Universidad Carlos III, (SPAIN)
* Marios Poulos, Ionian University (GREECE)
* T. V. Prabhakar, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (INDIA)
* Salvador Sanchez, University of Alcalá (SPAIN)
* Pınar Senkul, METU (TURKEY)
* Cleo Sgouropoulou, Technological Educational Institute of Athens
(GREECE)
* Aida Slavic, UDC Consortium (THE NETHERLANDS) *(to be confirmed)*
* Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba (JAPAN)
* Hussein Suleman, University of Cape Town (SOUTH AFRICA) *(to be
confirmed)*
* Giovanni Tummarello, National University of Ireland (IRELAND) *(to be
confirmed)*
* Emma Tonkin, University of Bath (UNITED KINGDOM)
* Hakan Tüzün, Hacettepe University (TURKEY) *(to be confirmed)*
* Murat Osman Ünalır, Ege University (TURKEY)
* Telmo Zarraonandia, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (SPAIN)
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* Twitter [5]
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* ResearchGate [7]
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Hi folks!
We've gotten a lot of great proposals for the Wikidata logo and now
it's time to chose. All the details about the vote are here:
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/07/03/wikidata-logo-its-time-to-pick-a-winner/
I'd be delighted if you all took part in the vote and we decide on a
great logo for Wikidata.
Cheers
Lydia
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Just to give you a heads up (the official announcement will follow soon,
lot's of changes still to come):
http://sabre2012.infai.org/mlode
There will be a session for "Best Practices for Multilingual LOD" .
We will also talk about a road map for DBpedia, so it might be really
interesting to stake common goals there. Large parts of DBpedia dev
will be there.
Please contact the whole MLODE orga team, if you have ideas or want to
join it: mlode2012(a)lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de
or write to mlode2012-sponsor(a)informatik.uni-leipzig.de , if you are
interested in sponsoring the event.
All the best,
Sebastian
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Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
Events: 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
Heya folks :)
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2012-06-29.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_06_29 has
the wiki version of it.
= Development =
* Had a short one week sprint
* Differences between revisions of items are being displayed now. It
is not exactly pretty, but it works.
* Many changes in the underlying code that will lead to a number of
features to be seen after next week’s sprint, preparing for our demo
at Wikimania in two weeks
* Started Sprint #8, another one week sprint -- and picked up a crazy
amount of items
* Sitelinks are now verified doing a call to the according Wikipedia.
Normalized article name is then displayed in the sitelinks UI.
* It is now possible to enter links to articles which do not appear on
the suggestions list. Verification is then done by the API.
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint
for what we’re working on next.
= Discussions/Press =
* Denny investigated the current interwiki link state and what impact
Wikidata’s first phase can have:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-June/000776.html
= Events =
see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* Code4Lib meetup
* report about Wikidata to the United Nations Economic Commission for
Europe's conference
http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/stats/documents/ece/ces/ge.45/2012/Bergm…
* right now: Wikipedia Academy
* upcoming: Wikipedia meetup New York City
= other noteworthy stuff =
* logo contest ends on Saturday:
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/06/09/wikidata-needs-a-logo-and-you-can-help/
* we applied for the Knight News Challenge and could use your help
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/06/25/wikidata-applies-for-the-knight-news-ch…
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/w/index.php?namespace=0&title=Specia…
Some spam was added to the wikidata-repo yesterday.
Here are a few regexes that can be added to the MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist:
\bmusic-software-programs\.com\b
\btwitter\.com/#!/(software_music|licensing_music)\b
\blicensing-of-music\.com\b
\bpaydayloansonline0\.com\b
I am an beginner in writing regexes though.
Hi!
We've finally gotten everything sorted and we can start the official
search for a Wikidata logo. If you're a skilled artist please read
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/06/09/wikidata-needs-a-logo-and-you-can-help/
for details and make a submission. If you're not then please spread
the word to your friends who are ;-)
Cheers
Lydia, who is really looking forward to many rocking submissions
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Hi all,
the first phase of Wikidata will help to centralize many of the
Wikipedia language links. We did a small analysis to figure out the
possible impact of this step.
Here are a few highlights:
* there are more than 240 million language links in the Wikipedias
* they are responsible for about 5 GB of wikitext
* on average, 33% of a Wikipedia language edition's wikitext is due to
language links - in several Wikipedias, more than 75% of the wikitext
are just language links!
The full data set is available here:
<http://simia.net/languagelinks/>
It would be interesting to also figure out how many of the edits are
due to changes to the language links. If anyone wants to try that...?
Enjoy the data,
Denny
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