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1st DBpedia Community Meeting
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Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014
**Submission of presentations open**: http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014
The DBpedia Project in 2014: from a hosted data set to a public data
infrastructure for the Web of Data. As the DBpedia community
has grown extensively, we think that the time has come to get
everybody in one large room and meet. We hope to get together three
major groups involved in DBpedia: the DBpedia developers
and maintainers, the communities of the individual DBpedia
language chapters and, of course, the DBpedia users.
Quick Facts
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When: January 30th, 2014
Where: VU Amsterdam, Netherlands (behind the high main building, nr
4 on the map )
Host: Dutch DBpedia Chapter (http://nl.dbpedia.org) and the VU
Amsterdam
Call for Contribution: **Submission Open** http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014
Registration: see http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014
Co-located with the PiLOD 2.0 meeting (http://www.pilod.nl)
on January 29th, 2014
Acknowledgements
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* We would especially like to thank Bibliotheek.nl – Public
Libraries of the Netherlands (http://bibliotheek.nl/) for
supporting the Dutch DBpedia Chapter.
* Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National library of the Netherlands (http://www.kb.nl)
for supporting the Dutch DBpedia Chapter and providing lunch for the
meeting.
* VU Amsterdam (http://www.vu.nl/) kindly provided
the facilities for the meeting, with special thanks to Lora Arroyo
from Biography Net (http://www.biographynet.nl/)
* OpenLink Software (http://www.openlinksw.com/)
for continuous hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint
Abstract
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(Please see http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Amsterdam2014
for complete program)
The meeting will be held at VU Amsterdam on Jan 30th and is
co-located with the PiLOD 2.0 (http://www.pilod.nl) meeting one
day earlier. The first session will be a discussion about the
DBpedia State-of-Play, where core members of the DBpedia community
present certain aspects of DBpedia and the audience is invited to
give feedback and ask questions. The second session will be
dedicated to users of DBpedia. We would like to invite companies,
organisations and other project to shortly present their use cases
for DBpedia and give input on how we can improve DBpedia for users.
Free slots still available, apply here: http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014
After the lunch, we plan to have three break-out sessions for the
topics (1) DBpedia and Library, (2) Linking text to LOD entities and
(3) What is wrong with DBpedia? Developers discussion on how to
improve our baby. Finally, the last parallel sessions are planned
as: DBpedia tutorial, DBpedia I18N developers' session and a Local
Dutch DBpedia Chapter Meeting with the additional possibility to
continue break out sessions.
-> Note the Local Dutch DBpedia Chapter might be held one day
earlier at the Pilod meeting, please look here for updates in a
couple of days ( written Jan 14th) .
==== About DBpedia ====
Source: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj499.pdf
The DBpedia community project extracts structured, multilingual
knowledge from Wikipedia and makes it freely available using
Semantic Web and Linked Data standards. The extracted knowledge,
comprising more than 1.8 billion facts, is structured according to
an ontology maintained by the community. The knowledge is obtained
from different Wikipedia language editions, thus covering more than
100 languages, and mapped to the community ontology. The resulting
data sets are linked to more than 30 other data sets in the Linked
Open Data (LOD) cloud. The DBpedia project was started in 2006 and
has meanwhile attracted large interest in research and practice.
Being a central part of the LOD cloud, it serves as a connection hub
for other data sets. For the research community, DBpedia provides a
testbed serving real world data spanning many domains and languages.
Due to the continuous growth of Wikipedia, DBpedia also provides an
increasing added value for data acquisition, re-use and integration
tasks within organisations. In this system report, we give an
overview over the DBpedia community project, including its
architecture, technical implementation, maintenance,
internationalisation, usage statistics and showcase some popular
DBpedia applications.
Travel Grants / Sponsorship
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Some of the DBpedia developers work on DBpedia in their free-time
and will not have institutional funding to come to the meeting.
Therefore, we are still looking for sponsors for travel grants (as
well as coffee and food for the sessions). If you are interested to
sponsor this meeting, please fill out this form to request more
information: http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014
Given we can acquire a sponsor, participants can apply for a travel
grant here: http://tinyurl.com/DBpedia-amsterdam-2014
or email Sebastian (who will then add your request to the form ;) )
These grants will be awarded depending on the standing in the
community and community activity, e.g. Google Summer of Code
participation or Git Commits to DBpedia framework, activity on the
mailing lists, etc.
We hope to see you there,
Gerard, Gerald (from Dutch DBpedia), Mariano from the Spanish
DBpedia and Dimitris and Sebastian