Re: DBpedia+Spotlight accepted @ Google Summer of Code 2013

In this particular case, I believe the excitement comes from the fact that
this program supports the scientific community in key activities such as:
1) communicating research results, 2) funding; and 3) reproducibility.

First, the academics involved will get their research publicized to
thousands of students all around the world; Second, students will get
funding for joining these academic projects; Third, all the results will be
published as open source, allowing anybody to evaluate, reuse and contrast
their work with those results.

But sorry if I misunderstood the flamethrowing as actual comments.


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Neil McNaughton <neil@oilit.com> wrote:

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> Hello all,****
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> There is something unseemly about the way academia regards acceptance by
> Google as an accolade. This, from the multi billion company that spies on
> individuals, sniffing wifi passwords and gaming search to its own “do no
> evil” ends. What is the world coming to I ask?****
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> **Neil McNaughton******
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> Editor, Oil IT Journal (www.oilit.com)****
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> *From:* Dimitris Kontokostas [mailto:kontokostas@informatik.uni-leipzig.de]
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> *Sent:* 11 April 2013 09:04
> *To:* semantic-web@w3.org; Linked Data community
> *Subject:* DBpedia+Spotlight accepted @ Google Summer of Code 2013****
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> [Apologies for cross-posting]****
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> Dear fellow DBpedians,
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> I am very excited to announce that DBpedia and DBpedia Spotlight have
> again been been selected for the Google Summer of Code 2013!!!
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> If you know energetic students (BSc,MSc,PhD) interested in working with
> DBpedia, text processing, and semantics, please encourage them to apply!
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> More details can also be found on the blog post here:
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> http://blog.dbpedia.org/2013/04/10/dbpediaspotlight-accepted-google-summer-of-code-2013/
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> On behalf of the DBpedia GSoC team,
> Dimitris Kontokostas
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> Dimitris Kontokostas
> Department of Computer Science, ****University** of **Leipzig****
> Research Group: http://aksw.org
> Homepage:http://aksw.org/DimitrisKontokostas ****
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> <http://aksw.org/DimitrisKontokostas>****
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