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Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2014 
Submission of presentations open: http://goo.gl/LSwt4P 

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. 

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. 

Quick Facts 
======= 
* Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2014 
* When: September 3rd, 2014 
* Where: Leipzig, Germany 
* Host: German DBpedia Chapter (http://de.dbpedia.org) and the Institute for 
Applied Informatics 
* Call for Contributions: http://goo.gl/LSwt4P 
* Co-located with the SEMANTICS 2014 (http://semantics.cc) on Sep. 4-5, 2014 
* Registration: Free to participate but only through registration. Option to 
donate to DBpedia Association & extra ticket for the social event. 
http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2014 
* Twitter: #DBpediaLeipzig 

Acknowledgements 
============ 
* We would especially like to thank Neofonie, PoolParty, STI, eccenca for 
supporting the German DBpedia Chapter as well as the Semantics 2014 Conference. 
* OpenLink Software (http://www.openlinksw.com/) for continuous hosting of the 
main DBpedia Endpoint 

Preliminary Agenda 
============= 
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 (http://semantics.cc) 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. 

Keynote Speakers: 
============== 
* Sören Auer, University of Bonn 
* Sofia Angeletou, BBC 

Call for Contributions 
=============== 
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. 

* Submission Upload Form: http://goo.gl/LSwt4P 
* Deadline for contributions:  August 18, 2014 

==== About DBpedia ==== 
Source: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj499.pdf 
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. 

Travel Grants / Sponsorship 
================= 
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: http://goo.gl/LSwt4P 

Given we can acquire a sponsor, participants can apply for a travel grant here: 
http://goo.gl/LSwt4P  or email Adrian. 
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. 

We hope to see you all in Leipzig: 
* Adrian Paschke (DBpedia German Chapter & FU Berlin) 
* Harald Sack (DBpedia German Chapter & HPI Potsdam) 
* Sebastian Hellmann (DBpedia Association & AKSW Leipzig) 
* Heiko Ehrig (Neofonie) 
* Dimitris Kontokostas (DBpedia Association & AKSW Leipzig) 
* Magnus Knuth (DBpedia German Chapter & HPI Potsdam) 
* Alexandru Tudor (DBpedia German Chapter & FU Berlin)


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