Re: [ANN] DBpedia Autumn Hackathon, starting Sept 21st

As an aside, a very silly use of dbpedia was to add it to my minecraft 
map generator so it pulls all the points of interest in the area and 
adds signposts in the Minecraft world. 
https://www.minecraftworldmap.com/worlds/lbwQ5#/1234/64/-933/-6/0/0

The Tower of London has a huge stack of them because lots of notable 
people were executed on the same spot!

I also made a couple of other silly DBPedia hacks years ago and they 
still work to my surprise!

http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/blueplaque/

http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/tombstone/

On 11/09/2020 10:58, Sebastian Hellmann wrote:
>
> Hi LODers,
>
> I forgot the exact policy of posting here. This time it is the DBpedia 
> hackathon, which I think is ok. Note that DBpedia will start to 
> produce thousands of structural knowledge graphs that help find and 
> crystallize LOD subcommunities. The Dutch National Knowledge Graph is 
> a pilot for this. At the Hackathon final event on Oct 5th and at the 
> Knowledge Graphs in Action at Oct 6th, I will give a short 
> presentation there to introduce the architecture briefly.
>
> -- Sebastian
>
> ##################
>
> Apologies for cross-posting
>
>
> Dear DBpedians, Linked Data savvies and Ontologists,
>
>
> We would like to invite you to join the DBpedia Autumn Hackathon 2020 
> as a new format to contribute to DBpedia, gain fame, win small prizes 
> and experience the latest technology provided by DBpedia Association 
> members. The hackathon is part of the Knowledge Graphs in Action 
> conference on October 6, 2020. Please check here: 
> https://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/KnowledgeGraphsInAction
>
>
> # Timeline
>
>  *
>
>     Registration of participants - main communication channel will be
>     the #hackathon channel in DBpedia Slack (sign up
>     https://dbpedia-slack.herokuapp.com/, then add yourself to the
>     channel). If you wish to receive a reminder email on Sep 21st, you
>     can leave your email address in this form:
>     https://tinyurl.com/y24ps5jt
>
>  *
>
>     Until September 14th - preparation phase, participating
>     organisations prepare details, track formation, additional tracks
>     can be proposed, please contact dbpedia-events@infai.org
>     <mailto:dbpedia-events@infai.org>
>
>  *
>
>     September 21st - Announcement of details for each track, including
>     prizes, participating data, demos, tools and tasks. Check updates
>     on hackathon website
>     https://wiki.dbpedia.org/events/dbpedia-autumn-hackathon-2020
>
>  *
>
>     September 21st to October 1st - hacking period, coordinated via
>     DBpedia slack
>
>  *
>
>     October 1st, 23:59 Hawaii Time -  Submission of hacking result (3
>     min video and 2-3 paragraph summary with links, if not stated
>     otherwise in the track)
>
>  *
>
>     October 5th, 16:00 CEST - Final Event, each track chair presents a
>     short recap of the track, announces prizes or summarizes the
>     result of hacking.
>
>  *
>
>     October 6th, 9:50 - 15:30 CEST - Knowledge Graphs in Action Event
>
>  *
>
>     Results and videos are documented on the DBpedia Website and the
>     DBpedia Youtube channel.
>
>
> # Member Tracks
>
> The member tracks are hosted by DBpedia Association members, who are 
> technology leaders in the area of Knowledge Engineering. Additional 
> tracks can be proposed until Sep 14th, please contact 
> dbpedia-events@infai.org <mailto:dbpedia-events@infai.org>.
>
>
>  *
>
>     timbr SQL Knowledge Graph: Learn how to model, map and query
>     ontologies in timbr and then model an ontology of GDELT, map it to
>     the GDELT database, and answer a number of questions that
>     currently are quite impossible to get from the BigQuery GDELT
>     database. Cash prizes planned. https://www.timbr.ai/
>
>  *
>
>     GNOSS Knowledge Graph Builder: Give meaning to your organisation’s
>     documents and data with a Knowledge Graph.
>     https://www.gnoss.com/en/products/semantic-framework
>
>  *
>
>     ImageSnippets: Labeling images with semantic descriptions. Use
>     DBpedia spotlight and an entity matching lookup to select DBpedia
>     terms to describe images. Then explore the resulting dataset
>     through searches over inference graphs and explore the
>     ImageSnippets dataset through our SPARQL endpoint. Prizes planned.
>     http://www.imagesnippets.com <http://www.imagesnippets.com/>
>
>  *
>
>     Diffbot: Build Your Own Knowledge Graph! Use the Natural Language
>     API to extract triples from natural language text and expand these
>     triples with data from the Diffbot Knowledge Graph (10+ billion
>     entities, 1+ trillion facts). Check out the demo
>     http://demo.nl.diffbot.com/. All participants will receive access
>     to the Diffbot KG and tools for (non-commercial) research for one
>     year ($10,000 value).
>
>
> # Dutch National Knowledge Graph Track
>
> Following the DBpedia FlexiFusion approach, we are currently 
> flexi-fusing a huge, dbpedia-style knowledge graph that will connect 
> many Linked Data sources and data silos relevant to the country of the 
> Netherlands. We hope that this will eventually crystallize a 
> well-connected sub-community linked open data (LOD) cloud in the same 
> manner as DBpedia crystallized the original LOD cloud with some 
> improvements (you could call it LOD Mark II). Data and hackathon 
> details will be announced on 21st of September.
>
>
> # Improve DBpedia Track
>
> A community track, where everybody can participate and contribute in 
> improving existing DBpedia components, in particular the extraction 
> framework, the mappings, the ontology, data quality test cases, new 
> extractors, links and other extensions. Best individual contributions 
> will be acknowledged on the DBpedia website by anointing the 
> WebID/Foaf profile.
>
> (chaired by Milan Dojchinovski and Marvin Hofer from the DBpedia 
> Association & InfAI and the DBpedia Hacking Committee)
>
>
> # DBpedia Open Innovation Track
>
> (not part of the hackathon, pre-announcement)
>
> For the DBpedia Spring Event 2021, we are planning an Open Innovation 
> Track, where DBpedians can showcase their applications. This endeavour 
> will not be part of the hackathon as we are looking for significant 
> showcases with development effort of months & years built on the core 
> infrastructure of DBpedia such as the SPARQL endpoint, the data, 
> lookup, spotlight, DBpedia Live, etc. Details will be announced during 
> the Hackathon Final Event on October 5.
>
> (chaired by Heiko Paulheim et al.)
>
>
> Stay tuned and stay safe!
>
> With kind regards,
>
>
> The DBpedia Organizing-Team
>
>
>
-- 
Christopher Gutteridge <totl@soton.ac.uk>
You should read our team blog at http://blog.soton.ac.uk/webteam/