Sounds great. :)
Should I be approaching the mentors mentioned for each project through the
mailing list itself or directly? I thought I could get clarity on the
different projects from the mentors themselves
Thanks
Navin
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Marco Fossati <hell.j....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Navin,
>
> Great! Feel free to pick one idea and try to focus on it.
> Cheers!
>
>
> On 3/2/15 7:26 PM, Navin Pai wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>> I'm Navin, from the International Institute of Information Technology -
>> Bangalore (IIIT-B) [1]. I've been using DBpedia dumps (and other tools)
>> over the last year for the work I've been doing as part of the Web
>> Science Lab (formerly Open Systems Lab) [2]. We worked using RDF triples
>> sourced from multiple sources for a project that involved large scale
>> context analysis/ontology mapping and the like.
>>
>> I've been super thankful to the DBpedia team for the awesome work
>> they've put in to further the Linked Data cause. And would love to
>> contribute to the project in one of the following domains.
>>
>> I'm comfortable working with Python/Java/C/C++ though personally feel I
>> could pick up any language quickly enough if need be.
>>
>> From the list of projects provided[3], the projects that stood out to
>> me were:
>>
>> 1) 5.3. Parallel processing in DBpedia extraction Framework
>> I've worked with Docker/AWS/Spark before, and understand the need for
>> preconfigured setups for the same
>>
>> 2) 5.7. Reverse Engineering and Aligning Freebase with DBpedia
>> Again, since I've worked in a similar field, I feel I can contribute to
>> this. I understand the significance this would have for the whole
>> project too
>>
>> 3) 5.2. New Dynamic Extractors from Wikipedia Content with JSONpedia
>> Faceted Browsing
>> I must admit, I didn't know about the GSOC2014 work done in this
>> context, but this seems like a really cool project to work on.
>>
>> I went through the links provided and will see how I can contribute to
>> the warmup tasks
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Navin
>>
>> [1] http://www.iiitb.ac.in
>> [2] http://osl.iiitb.ac.in/~wsl/
>> [3] http://wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2015/ideas#h460-6
>>
>>
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