• Web URL: https://2024.dataweek.de/en/trainings/2024-04-16/
• Hashtag: #DBpediaTraining an #DataWeekLeipzig
• When: April 16, 024
• Where: Neues Rathaus/City Hall, Martin-Luther-Ring 4-6, 04109 Leipzig
• Registration: https://2024.dataweek.de/en/tickets.html

Registration / Tickets

Get a ticket via the Data Week Leipzig website https://2024.dataweek.de/en/tickets.html.

Program

“Harnessing the Power of DBpedia: Transforming Data into Knowledge”

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the ability to efficiently access, understand, and manipulate data is paramount. DBpedia stands at the forefront of this revolution, offering an unparalleled repository of structured knowledge extracted from Wikipedia, making it an indispensable resource for industry practitioners and technology innovators alike. This workshop is designed to introduce you to the vast capabilities of DBpedia and its suite of technologies that are reshaping how we interact with the world’s knowledge.

DBpedia offers a structured knowledge base derived from Wikipedia – the DBpedia knowledge graph – serving as a critical resource for industries seeking to enhance data analysis, integration, and application development. Over the last 15 years, DBpedia has grown into a huge ecosystem of data and tools that are now accessible via the powerful DBpedia Databus. During the workshop the participants will learn how to navigate and manipulate the DBpedia ecosystem to not only access a global knowledge base but also to enrich their own datasets and applications with semantics and links.

The session aims to equip practitioners with the skills to effectively use DBpedia for enriching their data infrastructure, enabling advanced data interlinking and semantic web applications. Through hands-on examples and industry-focused scenarios, attendees will explore how to extract, manipulate, and leverage linked data from DBpedia to address specific business and research needs. This workshop provides a practical introduction to DBpedia, focusing on its core technologies including RDF data modeling and ontologies, SPARQL querying, entity recognition with DBpedia Spotlight, and RDF conversion techniques. Level: beginner to intermediate. 

Using the DBpedia Databus, we will cover:

1. Host your own data on the Databus (.txt, .csv, .json, .rdf, .nt)*.
2. Transform and link your data to RDF.
3. Build a joint Knowledge Graph combining your data plus DBpedia (plus other Linked Data sets).
4. Deploy an application on top (Ontology-based search, Triple Store, Graph explorer, etc.).

* Bringing your own data is optional. Data can also be supplied by us.

Requirements:

• Laptop
• Docker needs to be installed and running on the laptop.
• Basic knowledge in a programming or scripting language (e.g. Python, Java, Scala, Bash).
• Main language is English (but individual help can be provided in German).

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We are creating a meeting place and scientific network around DBpedia for scientific exchange – the DBpedia Knowledge Engineering PhD Symposium – where junior and senior researchers can establish relations and collaborations and exchange ideas and knowledge. Thus, we aim to manifest a scientific community as a driver for DBpedia and Linked Data and expect synergies and network effects that will greatly improve scientific output by the involved community members. The DBpedia Knowledge Engineering PhD Symposium will be held on the third day of the week-long Data Week Leipzig 2022 event (July 4-8, 2022).

The Format

The DBpedia Knowledge Engineering PhD Symposium consists of the following highlights:

• A senior researcher starts the symposium by giving insights into their experience on “what makes a good PhD”.
• Several PhD students will present their thesis and topics. On the one hand, they will receive feedback and on the other hand, the symposium participants will gain insight 1) on how they structure and define their PhDs, 2) on what the current trends are and 3) on potential connecting A dedicated poster session where all PhD participants can bring their poster and discuss with the audience during the coffee breaks. Please contact the organizers if interested in presenting a poster!
• A community session, where we discuss how to organize the research network around DBpedia.
• In the afternoon we will walk through the city center of Leipzig and also visit the LivingLab at the University of Leipzig. In the evening we will meet in a nearby pub and discuss the PhD topics of the day.

Submission of presentations

We are looking for presentations within the broader scope of the knowledge engineering field. From knowledge extraction, integration and curation, to knowledge publishing, quality assurance and knowledge exploitation in AI solutions. Each PhD presenter will receive a 30 minutes slot which includes 20 minutes for presentation of the research topic and 10 minutes for questions, feedback and discussion.

The aim of the DBpedia Knowledge Engineering PhD Symposium is to provide an opportunity to PhD students to present their PhD-related work-in-progress and receive feedback on their current work. In an open, supportive and non-confrontational environment the students will present their thesis in relation to the state-of-the-art, the identified gaps, addressed challenges, considered methods for exploitation, datasets for validation, and the overall evaluation approach. The colloquium will help PhD students to strengthen and shape their work as they progress towards their PhD degree. Moreover, the colloquium is a great opportunity to build a network of peers for their future career. The ultimate objective of the colloquium is to promote excellence in PhD research in the knowledge engineering field.

Confirmed list of mentors

• Maribel Acosta, RUB
• Thomas Riechert, HTWK
• Sahar Vahdati, InfAI
• Maria-Esther Vidal, TIB

Program

All times are in CEST.

Deadline for PhD presentations

• submission: May 29, 2022
• notification: June 3, 2022

How to apply and join

To apply for a PhD presentation please fill-in the provided form (extended abstracts of ~ 500 words / 1 page).  

How to register

The symposium will be organized as an on-site event where you need to register and buy at least a single day Data Week ticket (Tickets will be available from mid-May.). All symposium participants will be invited to an informal meeting in the evening, where the PhD student can discuss their current results and future plans with professors and experts from the knowledge engineering field.

Organisation Committee

• Milan Dojchinovski, DBpedia Association / Czech Technical University in Prague
• Julia Holze, DBpedia Association
• Sebastian Hellmann, DBpedia Association

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The survey of our last tutorial at KGC’21 revealed that the audience was particularly interested in using DBpedia in industry use cases, demos as well as tools. As a consequence we decided to organize a new tutorial that is less focused on research driven topics and instead added more use-cases and practical examples which are demonstrated in hands-on live demo sessions. Additionally we show how to deploy the technology stack and services to be used on private / local infrastructure.

The aim of this tutorial is, from a practical perspective, to explain in detail the DBpedia technology stack and its deployment on a customer infrastructure. The tutorial will also explain in detail the generation and release process of the DBpedia KG. In a real-world use case we will illustrate the use of the DBpedia KG and DBpedia technology stack in combination with proprietary data. Hands-on sessions will be organized to intternalize the DBpedia technology stack with practice.

During the course of the tutorial the following topics will be studied:

• DBpedia Knowledge Graph in the nutshell
• DBpedia Technology Stack
• Deployment of the DBpedia on corporate infrastructure
• Real-world use case an application of the DBpedia tech

Altough the tutorial will be shaped in a way that no specific prerequisites will be required, the participants would benefit if they have some background knowledge in Semantic Web concepts and technologies (RDF, OWL, SPARQL), general overview of the Web Architecture (HTTP, URI, JSON, etc.) and basic programming skills (bash, Java, JavaScript). All required software and tools will be provided and they will be freely available for the participants. Instructions for the hands-on-sessions will be provided in advanced.

The DBpedia Knowledge Graph Tech Tutorial 2.0 will be held on May 2, 2022 at 3:00-6:00pm CEST.

Quick Facts

• Web URL: https://www.dbpedia.org/events/dbpedia-tutorial-2-0-kg-conference/
• Hashtag: #DBpediaTutorial
• When: May 2, 2022 at 3.00-6.00pm CEST
• Where: The tutorial will be organized at the Cornell Tech Campus as well as online.
• Registration: via the KGC website

Registration

Please register at the Knowledge Graph Conference website to be part of the meeting. You NEED to buy a conference ticket to join the tutorial. After the registration for the event, you will receive an email with more instructions. Please get in touch with us if you have any problems during the registration stage via dbpedia@infai.org.

Organisation

• Milan Dojchinovski , InfAI, DBpedia Association, CTU
• Sebastian Hellmann, InfAI, DBpedia Association
• Jan Forberg, InfAI, DBpedia Association
• Johannes Frey, InfAI, DBpedia Association
• Julia Holze, InfAI, DBpedia Association
• Marvin Hofer, InfAI, DBpedia Association

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• Web URL: https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/
• Hashtag: #DBpediaDay
• Conference and sessions: September 9, 2021
• Where: Meervaart Theatre, Meer en vaart 300, 1068 LE, Amsterdam AND online
• Registration: via Semantics website

This year we are partnering again with the SEMANTiCS, an established knowledge hub which brings together technology professionals, industry experts, and researchers to exchange knowledge regarding new technologies, innovations, and enterprise implementations in the fields of Linked Data and Semantic AI. The DBpedia Day is part of the conference and will be held on the last day of SEMANTiCS 2021 on the 9th of September in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Keynote

• “Enhancing Linked Data Trustability and Transparency through Knowledge-driven Data Ecosystems” by  Maria-Esther Vidal, TIB & L3S Research Center (abstract)

Registration / Tickets

To attend the conference you have to book your ticket here. You can switch between online or onsite tickets at any time.

Please get in touch with us if you have any problems during the registration stage.

Speaker Guide

Please find the guide for speakers here: https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/how-hybrid-guide-your-hybrid-participation

Acknowledgements

	SEMANTiCS 2021 for having the DBpedia Day as part of the conference.
	Institute for Applied Informatics for supporting the DBpedia Association.
	OpenLink Software for continuous hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint.

Organisation

• Enno Meijers, National Library of the Netherlands & Dutch DBpedia
• Julia Holze, InfAI, DBpedia Association
• Milan Dojchinovski, InfAI, DBpedia Association, CTU
• Sebastian Hellmann, InfAI, DBpedia Association

Program

Please open the links to the presentation slides in a new browser window.

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• Web URL: https://www.dbpedia.org/events/knowledgegraphsinaction
• Hashtag: #KGiA
• Conference and sessions: October 6th, 2020
• Where: The conference will take place fully online.
• Registration: Via form
• Please find the information sheet for all participants HERE.

The SEMANTiCS Onsite Conference 2020 had to be postponed till September 2021. Only pre-recorded videos and a live moderation will be shown on September 9, 2020. To bridge the gap until 2021, we took the opportunity to organize the Knowledge Graphs in Action online track as a SEMANTiCS satellite event on October 6, 2020. This new online conference is a combination of two existing events: the DBpedia Community Meeting, which is regularly held as part of the SEMANTiCS, and the annual Spatial Linked Data conference organised by EuroSDR and the Platform Linked Data Netherlands. We glued it together and as a bonus we added a track about Geo-information Integration organized by EuroSDR. As special joint sessions we will present four keynote speakers. The DBpedia Meeting is part of the conference and covers a Hackathon, a DBpedia Showcase Session and a special chapter session in which DBpedia language chapters from different parts of Europe will present the latest developments.

Keynotes

• Data Infrastructure for Energy System Models by Carsten Hoyer-Click, German Aerospace Center
• Spatial knowledge in action – Deep semantics, geospatial thinking, and new cartographies by Marinos Kavouras, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
• Opportunities for a more integrated approach to Geo-information integration by Peter Mooney, Maynooth University
• Know, Know Where, KnowWhereGraph by Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California

EuroSDR VGI Datathon (pre-event)

• Datathon “Integration of Crowdsourced Geo-information”
• Begin: Sep 17th > Deadline: Sep 24th > Final Event on Oct 6th, 14:00 CEST Session 5
• Call for Participants check here.

DBpedia Hackathon (pre-event)

• Event page
• Begin: Sep 21st >  Deadline: Oct 1st >  Final Event on Oct 5th, 16:00 CEST

Registration / Tickets

Attending the conference is free. Registration is required though. Please register here to be part of the meeting.

Please get in touch with us if you have any problems during the registration stage.

Recordings

Please find all session recordings on the DBpedia Youtube Channel.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following partners for their collaboration and support:

	SEMANTiCS 2020 for having this event as an online satellite event.
	Institute for Applied Informatics for supporting the DBpedia Association.
	OpenLink Software for continuous hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint.
	PLDN for organizing and supporting the event.
	EuroSDR for organizing and supporting the event.

Organisation

• Benedicte Bucher, University Gustave Eiffel, IGN, EuroSDR
• Erwin Folmer, Kadaster, University of Twente, Platform Linked Data Netherlands
• Rob Lemmens, University of Twente
• Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, DBpedia Association
• Julia Holze, InfAI, DBpedia Association

Organizers of parallel Sessions:

• Joep Crompvoets, KU Leuven
• Peter Mooney, Maynooth University

Program

Please open the links  in a new browser window.

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