[okfn-discuss] ANN, the new DBpedia Association

[Gene Shackman]

Well dbpedia is nice but wouldnt it be much better to devote tine to verifying wikipedia is accurate. Extracting bad data stii leaves you with bad data. There are so many sources on the web much better than wikipedia.

Gene



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On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 5:55 AM PDT Sebastian Hellmann wrote:

>(please forward)
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>Dear all,
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>we are very happy to announce that we have succeeded in the formation of a new organization to support DBpedia and its community.
>The DBpedia Association is now officially in action. In the coming months, we hope to raise funding to reach some of the goals outlined in our charter: http://dbpedia.org/association
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>At the European Data Forum in Athens today and tomorrow, you are able to meet many of the people from the DBpedia Community who have helped to create the DBpedia Association for example Martin Kaltenböck, Michael Martin and Dimitris Kontokostas will be at the the LOD2 Booth at EDF and  Asunción Gómez Pérez will be at the LD4LT side event on Friday (Just to name a few)
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>From September 1st-5th in Leipzig, we hope to gather everyone to celebrate this great achievement. Especially on the 3rd of September, where we will have the 2nd DBpedia Community meeting, which is co-located with the SEMANTiCS 2014 (formerly i-SEMANTICS) on September 4-5.
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>The people who have all worked together to create this wealth of value under the DBpedia name are so numerous that we are hardly able to know their exact number or all their names. For proper acknowledgement, as a first action the DBpedia Association will start to give out Linked Data URIs during the next months for all its contributors and supporters.
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>Personally, I am very proud to live in such a great age of collaboration where we are able to work together across borders and institutions.
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>Hope to see you in person in September or earlier as linked data under the http://dbpedia.org/community/$contributor namespace.
>Sebastian Hellmann
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>-- Sebastian Hellmann
>AKSW/NLP2RDF research group
>Insitute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) affiliated with DBpedia
>Events:
>* *21st March, 2014*: LD4LT Kick-Off <https://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt/wiki/LD4LT_Group_Kick-Off_and_Roadmap_Meeting> @European Data Forum
>* *Sept. 1-5, 2014* Conference Week in Leipzig, including
>** *Sept 2nd*, MLODE 2014
>** *Sept 3rd*, 2nd DBpedia Community Meeting
>** *Sept 4th-5th*, SEMANTiCS (formerly i-SEMANTICS) <http://semantics.cc/>
>Venha para a Alemanha como PhD: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/csf
>Projects: http://dbpedia.org, http://nlp2rdf.org, http://linguistics.okfn.org, https://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt <http://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt>
>Homepage: http://aksw.org/SebastianHellmann
>Research Group: http://aksw.org
>Thesis:
>http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis-summary
>http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis