Thanks for this update, Markus, and congrats to all! Shani.
------------------------------------- Shani Evenstein Sigalov EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Med Program, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University. Lecturer, Tel Aviv University. Chair, WikiProject Medicine Foundation. Chair, Wikipedia & Education User Group. Chair, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society. Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda. +972-525640648 On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 3:30 AM Markus Kroetzsch < markus.kroetz...@tu-dresden.de> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am happy to report that we have just won the Best Paper Award of the > In-Use track of this year's International Semantic Web Conference > (ISWC), for our description of the SPARQL/RDF technology use on Wikidata > [1]. I keep telling people here that the general awesomeness of Wikidata > is the work of many, and in particular of this great community of editors. > > Overall, the year's ISWC here in Monterey, CA has surprised Denny and me > with the huge uptake that Wikidata gets by now in industry and academia > alike, which was a huge breakthrough over last year. An amazing array of > people are doing great work based on this data, and again I would like > to pass on all the thank you's I have heard over this week to all of you > working hard to make this happen. Users range from individual students > to major tech companies, and I hope there will be many contributions > flowing back to us through these stakeholders. We also have seen an > increasing amount of research being done using Wikidata for evaluation > and testing, again both in published works and in conversations with > people in small and big organisations. > > Let me also congratulate Fariz Darari, who is not a stranger to this > list either, on receiving the Best Dissertation Award of the Semantic > Web Science Association for the research that is also behind some of the > tools he has been creating for Wikidata. > > I gave another talk related to Wikidata's ontological modeling, which I > hope did not represent the situation all too wrongly [2] ;-). There will > be videos of this and the best paper presentation, and most other ISWC > talks on VideoLectures in the not-so-far future. > > Finally, since our best paper is about the use of BlazeGraph as a > platform for queries, let me also mention that we have had a number of > productive meetings here to discuss the future of this great software > (you may know that there were some organisational changes to the team > developing this so far). There will be opportunity to contribute to this > open source project, either as a developer or in other ways, in the > future. Stay tuned for more information on this. > > So, thanks again to everyone working towards the great success of this > project -- amazing work! > > Greetings from Asilomar > > Markus > > > [1] Stanislav Malyshev, Markus Krötzsch, Larry González, Julius Gonsior, > Adrian Bielefeldt: "Getting the Most out of Wikidata: Semantic > Technology Usage in Wikipedia’s Knowledge Graph" > Talk slides and paper online: > https://iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Inproceedings3044/en > > [2] Markus Krötzsch > Ontological Modelling in Wikidata > Invited keynote at the 9th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns > (WOP'18) > Slides: https://iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Misc3058/en > > -- > Prof. Dr. Markus Kroetzsch > Knowledge-Based Systems Group > Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) > Faculty of Computer Science > TU Dresden > +49 351 463 38486 > https://kbs.inf.tu-dresden.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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