The First Wikidata Workshop

Co-located with the 19th International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2020).
Date: October 29, 2020
The workshop will be held online, afternoon European time.

Website: https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/

== Important dates ==

Papers due: August 10, 2020
Notification of accepted papers: September 11, 2020
Camera-ready papers due: September 21, 2020
Workshop date: October 29, 2020

== Overview ==

Wikidata is an openly available knowledge base, hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It can be accessed and edited by both humans and machines and acts as a common structured-data repository for several Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikisource. It is used in a variety of applications by researchers and practitioners alike.
In recent years, we have seen an increase in the number of publications around Wikidata. While there are several dedicated venues for the broader Wikidata community to meet, none of them focuses on publishing original, peer-reviewed research. This workshop fills this gap - we hope to provide a forum to build this fledgling scientific community and promote novel work and resources that support it.
The workshop seeks original contributions that address the opportunities and challenges of creating, contributing to, and using a global, collaborative, open-domain, multilingual knowledge graph such as Wikidata.
We encourage a range of submissions, including novel research, opinion pieces, and descriptions of systems and resources, which are naturally linked to Wikidata and its ecosystem, or enabled by it. What we’re less interested in are works which use Wikidata alongside or in lieu of other resources to carry out some computational task - unless the work feeds back into the Wikidata ecosystem, for instance by improving or commenting on some Wikidata aspect, or suggesting new design features, tools and practices.
We also encourage submissions on the topic of Abstract Wikipedia, particularly around collaborative code management, natural language generation by a community, the abstract representation of knowledge, and the interaction between Abstract Wikipedia and Wikidata on the one, and Abstract Wikipedia and the language Wikipedias on the other side.
We welcome interdisciplinary work, as well as interesting applications which shed light on the benefits of Wikidata and discuss areas of improvement.
The workshop is planned as an interactive half-day event, in which most of the time will be dedicated to discussions and exchange rather than frontal presentations. For this reason, all accepted papers will be presented in short talks and accompanied by a poster. We are considering online options in response to ongoing challenges such as travel restrictions and the recent Covid-19 pandemic.