The research group "Semantic Technology Innsbruck" would like to invite you to the talk of
Elena Simperl
on
Quality and collaboration in Wikidata
Date: Tuesday, 12th of December, 2017, 1pm
Place: 3W04, 2nd floor, ICT building
Abstract
Wikidata is a collaboratively edited knowledge graph. It expresses knowledge in the form of subject-property-value statements accompanied by provenance information. A project of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikidata has attracted a community of around 100 thousand registered contributors, who have edited more than 24 million entities since the start of the project in 2012. In this talk, we are going to present several studies into the socio-technical fabric of Wikidata, in which we analyse its quality and the collaboration processes that influence it.
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Elena Simperl is Professor of computer science at the University of Southampton and member of its Web Science Institute. Before joining Southampton in 2012, she was assistant professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany (2010-12) and vice-director of the Semantic Technologies Institute (STI) Innsbruck, Austria (2007-10). She has contributed to more than 20 research projects, 13 times as principal investigator or project lead. Currently she is the PI of H2020 Open Data Incubator for Europe (ODINE) and H2020 Data Pitch, which support SMEs to innovate with data. She is also PI on H2020 QROWD, which uses crowd and artificial intelligence to improve smart transportation systems. She authored more than 100 papers in semantic technologies, linked data, social computing, crowdsourcing and was programme/general chair of the European and International Semantic Web Conference and of the European Data Forum.