During the SEMANTiCS 2016 in Leipzig, Sep 12-15, the DBpedia community will get together on the 15th of September for the 7th edition of the DBpedia Community Meeting. The meeting will take place at the University of Leipzig (Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig, Germany). See here for detailed directions.
Over 140 participants registered for the next DBpedia Community Meeting, only few seats are left. So come and get your ticket to be part of this event.
The 7th edition of this event covers the first DBpedia Association hour, which provide a platform for the community to discuss and give feedback. On top we will have a DBpedia showcase session on DBpedia+ Data Stack 2016-04 – Release and talks about Human associations in the Semantic Web and DBpedia, DBpedia Archives as Memento with Triple Pattern Fragments and Towards a Unified PageRank for DBpedia and Wikidata. Our event features a dev & tutorial session to learn about DBpedia as well as a DBpedia ontology session and a DBpedia & NLP session.
Lydia Pintscher, product manager of Wikidata will speak about Wikidata: bringing structured data to Wikipedia with 16000 volunteers and Harald Sack from the Hasso-Plattner-Institut will speak about the dwerft Project – DBpedia and Linked Data for the Media Value Chaintopics. At the end of the meeting there will be a session for the “DBpedia references and citations challenge”, submissions will be judged by the Organizing Committee and the best two will receive a prize.
Attending the DBpedia Community meeting is free, but you need to register here. Optionally, in case you like to support DBpedia with a little more than your presence during the event, you can choose a DBpedia support ticket. Have a look here:
https://event.gg/3396-7th-dbpedia-community-meeting-in-leipzig-2016
We would like to thank the following organizations for sponsoring and supporting our endeavour.
- University of Leipzig (http://www.uni-leipzig.de/)
- ALIGNED Project (http://aligned-project.eu/)
- Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI, http://infai.org/en/AboutInfAI)
- OpenLink Software (http://www.openlinksw.com/)
- SEMANTICS Conference Sep 12-15, 2016 in Leipzig (http://2016.semantics.cc/)
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