Greetings!
I know many of you have seen the announcement already but if you have
not, you might want to considering coming to a talk on WikiData at the
Berkman Center. You can find details in the attached message or on
this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/WikiData_Presentation_at_Berkman_Center
If you are coming, we'd appreciate an on-wiki RSVP. Thanks!
Regards,
Mako
--
Benjamin Mako Hill
[email protected]
http://mako.cc/
Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far
as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto
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Greetings!
The Berkman Cooperation group is hosting Denny Vrandečić from the
Wikimedia Foundation Deutschland who is going to talk about some of
his work on the Wikidata project in a public seminar.
The meeting will be Tuesday (November 13) at 16:15 at the Berkman
Conference room (2nd Floor, 23 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA). The
seminar will involve time for discussion and should end by 17:45.
An abstract and biography follows:
Abstract:
Wikidata is a new Wikimedia project that will provide an
infrastructure to store and access structured data for use in
Wikipedia articles, similar to the way that Wikimedia Commons stores
and provides public access to multimedia files today. To achieve
this, Wikidata will become a knowledge base that anyone can
edit. The talk will present the Wikidata data model and user
interface design, the current state of the project, and aims to
induce discussions on the topic of collaboration for collecting
structured data by a broad and open audience: what do we need to do
in order to provide a project that allows everyone to collect the
sum of human knowledge in a structured way?
About the speaker:
Denny Vrandečić is project director of Wikidata with Wikimedia
Deutschland, and has previously been at the AIFB group at KIT
Karlsruhe, Germany, and at ISI at USC, Los Angeles, CA. He is
co-inventor of Semantic MediaWiki, used by NASA, the CIA, Google,
and many others, has advised Metaweb on their RDF export, and is
founding admin of the Croatian Wikipedia.
I hope to see some of you Tuesday!
Regards,
Mako
--
Benjamin Mako Hill
[email protected]
http://mako.cc/
Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far
as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto
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