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Web URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2014">http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2014</a>
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Submission of presentations open: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://goo.gl/LSwt4P">http://goo.gl/LSwt4P</a> <br>
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After the big success of the 1st DBpedia Community Meeting in
Amsterdam with more than 70 international participants, the second
edition of the event will take place in Leipzig, Germany, on
September 3, 2014, co-located with the 10th International Conference
on Semantic Systems 2014. <br>
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The DBpedia Project has developed from a hosted data set to the
public data infrastructure for the Web of Data. The Dbpedia
Community Meeting aims to get together three major groups being
involved in DBpedia: the DBpedia developers and maintainers, the
communities of the individual DBpedia language chapters and, of
course, also the DBpedia users. <br>
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Quick Facts <br>
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* Web URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2014">http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2014</a>
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* When: September 3rd, 2014 <br>
* Where: Leipzig, Germany <br>
* Host: German DBpedia Chapter (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://de.dbpedia.org">http://de.dbpedia.org</a>) and the
Institute for Applied Informatics <br>
* Call for Contributions: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://goo.gl/LSwt4P">http://goo.gl/LSwt4P</a> <br>
* Co-located with the SEMANTICS 2014 (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://semantics.cc">http://semantics.cc</a>)
on Sep. 4-5, 2014 <br>
* Registration: Free to participate but only through registration.
Option to donate to DBpedia Association & extra ticket for the
social event. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2014">http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2014</a>
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* Twitter: #DBpediaLeipzig <br>
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Acknowledgements <br>
============ <br>
* We would especially like to thank Neofonie, PoolParty, STI,
eccenca for supporting the German DBpedia Chapter as well as the
Semantics 2014 Conference. <br>
* OpenLink Software (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.openlinksw.com/">http://www.openlinksw.com/</a>)
for continuous hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint <br>
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Preliminary Agenda <br>
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The meeting will be held at Felix-Klein-Hörsaal (5th floor),
Paulinum, University of Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany on Sep. 3, 2014
and is co-located with SEMANTICS 2014 conference (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://semantics.cc">http://semantics.cc</a>)
on Sep. 4-5, 2014. The first session will be invited talks and
discussions about the DBpedia State-of-Play, where core members of
the DBpedia community present certain aspects of DBpedia and the
audience is invited to give feedback and ask questions. The second
session will be dedicated to users of DBpedia. A detailed program
will be published on the DBpedia Website. Again, we also plan to
have several break-out sessions for trending DBpedia topics to
enable further discussion on how to improve DBpedia. <br>
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Keynote Speakers: <br>
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* Sören Auer, University of Bonn <br>
* Sofia Angeletou, BBC <br>
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Call for Contributions <br>
=============== <br>
We would like to invite companies, organisations, research groups
and other projects to shortly present their use cases for DBpedia
and give input on how we can improve DBpedia for users. Free slots
still available and will be handled on a first come first serve
basis. Contribution proposals include (but not limited to)
presentation, posters, demos, lightning talks and session
suggestions. <br>
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* Submission Upload Form: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://goo.gl/LSwt4P">http://goo.gl/LSwt4P</a> <br>
* Deadline for contributions: August 18, 2014 <br>
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==== About DBpedia ==== <br>
Source: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj499.pdf">http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj499.pdf</a>
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The DBpedia community project extracts structured, multilingual
knowledge from Wikipedia and makes it freely available using
Semantic Web and Linked Data standards. The extracted knowledge,
comprising more than 1.8 billion facts, is structured according to
an ontology maintained by the community. The knowledge is obtained
from different Wikipedia language editions, thus covering more than
100 languages, and mapped to the community ontology. The resulting
data sets are linked to more than 30 other data sets in the Linked
Open Data (LOD) cloud. The DBpedia project was started in 2006 and
has meanwhile attracted large interest in research and practice.
Being a central part of the LOD cloud, it serves as a connection hub
for other data sets. For the research community, DBpedia provides a
testbed serving real world data spanning many domains and languages.
Due to the continuous growth of Wikipedia, DBpedia also provides an
increasing added value for data acquisition, re-use and integration
tasks within organisations. In this system report, we give an
overview over the DBpedia community project, including its
architecture, technical implementation, maintenance,
internationalisation, usage statistics and showcase some popular
DBpedia applications. <br>
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Travel Grants / Sponsorship <br>
================= <br>
Some of the DBpedia developers work on DBpedia in their free-time
and will not have institutional funding to come to the meeting.
Therefore, we are still looking for sponsors for travel grants (as
well as coffee and food for the sessions). If you are interested to
sponsor this meeting, please fill out this form to request more
information: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://goo.gl/LSwt4P">http://goo.gl/LSwt4P</a> <br>
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Given we can acquire a sponsor, participants can apply for a travel
grant here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://goo.gl/LSwt4P">http://goo.gl/LSwt4P</a> or email
Adrian. <br>
These grants will be awarded depending on the standing in the
community and community activity, e.g. Google Summer of Code
participation or Git Commits to DBpedia framework, activity on the
mailing lists, etc. <br>
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We hope to see you all in Leipzig: <br>
* Adrian Paschke (DBpedia German Chapter & FU Berlin) <br>
* Harald Sack (DBpedia German Chapter & HPI Potsdam) <br>
* Sebastian Hellmann (DBpedia Association & AKSW Leipzig) <br>
* Heiko Ehrig (Neofonie) <br>
* Dimitris Kontokostas (DBpedia Association & AKSW Leipzig) <br>
* Magnus Knuth (DBpedia German Chapter & HPI Potsdam) <br>
* Alexandru Tudor (DBpedia German Chapter & FU Berlin)<br>
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