On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 2:31 AM Markus Kroetzsch <[email protected]> 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.
Wohoooooooooo! Congratulations! Well deserved. And it seems there is another congratulation in order for Denny for another best paper award: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=521424710979&set=a.502323240479&type=3&permPage=1 > 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. That's really good to hear. > 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. Yay! :) Congratulations! > 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 Thanks a lot for the update and rocking the show at ISWC! Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
