Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 14:50:41 +0000 From: "Benj. Mako Hill" To: Crowdfoo Subject: Denny =?utf-8?B?VnJhbmRlxI1pxIcgb24gIldp?= =?utf-8?Q?kidata=3A_Th?= =?utf-8?Q?e?= next step for Wikipedia (and beyond)" - Tuesday 11/13 4:15pm Message-ID: <20121110145041.GE5625@yukidoke.org> Mail-Followup-To: Crowdfoo MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Greetings! The Berkman Cooperation group is hosting Denny Vrande=C4=8Di=C4=87 from t= he Wikimedia Foundation Deutschland who is going to talk about some of his work on the Wikidata project in a public seminar. The meeting will be Tuesday (November 13) at 16:15 at the Berkman Conference room (2nd Floor, 23 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA). The seminar will involve time for discussion and should end by 17:45. An abstract and biography follows: Abstract: Wikidata is a new Wikimedia project that will provide an infrastructure to store and access structured data for use in Wikipedia articles, similar to the way that Wikimedia Commons stores and provides public access to multimedia files today. To achieve this, Wikidata will become a knowledge base that anyone can edit. The talk will present the Wikidata data model and user interface design, the current state of the project, and aims to induce discussions on the topic of collaboration for collecting structured data by a broad and open audience: what do we need to do in order to provide a project that allows everyone to collect the sum of human knowledge in a structured way? About the speaker: Denny Vrande=C4=8Di=C4=87 is project director of Wikidata with Wikimedi= a Deutschland, and has previously been at the AIFB group at KIT Karlsruhe, Germany, and at ISI at USC, Los Angeles, CA. He is co-inventor of Semantic MediaWiki, used by NASA, the CIA, Google, and many others, has advised Metaweb on their RDF export, and is founding admin of the Croatian Wikipedia. I hope to see some of you Tuesday! Regards, Mako --=20 Benjamin Mako Hill mako@mit.edu http://mako.cc/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto