- From: Sören Auer <auer@l3s.de>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:10:04 +0100
- To: semantic-web@w3c.org, Linking Open Data <public-lod@w3.org>
Dear Semantic Web community, We were heartbroken to learn about the sudden death of our close colleague and friend Amrapali Zaveri Friday last week. Since many of you knew her or met her we wanted to share this with you. Amrapali was one of the first, most aspiring and sociable members of the AKSW research group in Leipzig, where she also completed her PhD. We will never forget her cheering smile; the inspiring discussions about Linked Data, quality assessment, and crowdsourcing; her amazingly positive attitude and her sociable, winning personality. After Leipzig, she joined Michel Dumontier’s group, first at Stanford, later in Maastricht and was about to assume a professor position with Paul Groth in Amsterdam in the coming weeks. She was helping to shape the Semantic Web community in many ways, was an essential member of the community, especially engaged for women in computer science and is by herself a role model for many of us. If you want to share condolences for Amrapali's family or just thoughts feel free to do so at the emorial page: https://www.remembr.com/amrapali.zaveri We will always keep Amrapali in our hearts. Michel Dumontier Thomas Riechert Jens Lehmann Nadine Jänicke Axel Ngonga Sören Auer and many more members of the groups in Maastricht, Stanford, Leipzig, Paderborn, Dresden, Hannover and Bonn. See also the news In Memoriam from Maastricht University: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/memoriam-amrapali-zaveri
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