After 4 successful meetings in Europe, we will cross the Atlantic for the next one: we are happy to announce that the 5th DBpedia meeting will be held at Stanford University, Palo Alto, on November 5th 2015.

Please read below on different ways you can participate. We are looking forward to meeting all the US-based DBpedia enthusiasts in person.

The event will feature talks from Yahoo!, IBM Watson, Blippar, and Stanford amongst others.

Quick facts

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Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/California2015 -

When: November 5th, 2015 -

Where: MSOB x303, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA (map https://goo.gl/qOGs7Z) -

Host: Dumontier Lab, Stanford University -

Call for Contribution: Submit your proposal in our form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1e_sxoJYZcAh5pZ8Gb4T0ZKG4CcHZvvG6g3YYjlUd5fs/viewform?usp=send_form -

Registration: https://event.gg/1742-5th-dbpedia-meeting-california (limited seats) -

Looking for sponsors (catering)

Acknowledgments

If you would like to become a sponsor for the 5th DBpedia Meeting, please contact the DBpedia Association dbpedia@infai.org

Dumontier Laboratory for Biomedical Knowledge Discovery http://dumontierlab.stanford.edu/

For hosting the meeting and helping with the organization

Institute for Applied Informatics http://infai.org/de/Aktuelles

For supporting the DBpedia Association

OpenLink Software http://www.openlinksw.com/

For continuous hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint

Organisation

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Michel Dumontier https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/michel-dumontier, Stanford University -

Pablo N. Mendes http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view_person_pubs.php?person=us-pnmendes&t=1, IBM Watson Research -

Marco Fossati https://about.me/marco.fossati, SpazioDati -

Dimitris Kontokostas http://aksw.org/DimitrisKontokostas, DBpedia Association and AKSW, Uni Leipzig -

Sebastian Hellmann http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann,, DBpedia Association and AKSW, Uni Leipzig

Registration

Attending the DBpedia Community meeting is free, but you need to register https://event.gg/1742-5th-dbpedia-meeting-california. There are 3 types of tickets that are booked separately:

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Ticket for the main event (50 people) -

Ticket for the pre-event (20 people) -

Optional DBpedia support ticket

Call for Contribution

Please submit your proposal through our form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1e_sxoJYZcAh5pZ8Gb4T0ZKG4CcHZvvG6g3YYjlUd5fs/viewform?usp=send_form. Contribution proposals include (but not limited to) presentation, demos, lightning talks and session suggestions. All talks are accepted by default and will be added to the program in batches. Location / Venue

The meeting will take place at Palo Alto CA, Stanford University, MSOB x303 (map https://goo.gl/qOGs7Z).

parking info: There is a parking structure on Pasteur Dr. near the hospital as well as in L-17. Both are only 5 minutes away walking. The yellow [P] shows the area for paid public parking. see the Stanford transportation maps https://transportation.stanford.edu/maps.shtml for details and especially the south-west map. http://transportation.stanford.edu/images/campus-parking-map-nw.png

Schedule (draft)

16:30 pre-event meeting (room tba)

Separate pre-meeting. Depending on the audience we can do hackathons, tutorials, QA sessions, etc (needs separate registration)

19:00 Main Event (Room MSOB x303)

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Introductions (5”) -

DBpedia state of affairs (10”) -

Invited talks (1h) -

Michel Dumontier, Stanford -

Anshu Jain, IBM Watson -

Nicolas Torzec, Yahoo! -

Karthik Gomadam, Accenture -

Joakim Soderberg, Blippar -

Alkis Simitsis, HP Labs -

Yashar Mehdad, Yahoo! Labs -

Lightning Talks (1h) -

(Use our form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1e_sxoJYZcAh5pZ8Gb4T0ZKG4CcHZvvG6g3YYjlUd5fs/viewform?usp=send_form to submit your talks) -

QA session / audience introduction - Networking and refreshments