The RENDER project participates in the ESWC EU Project Networking session.

The RENDER project is sponsoring this year’s ESWC.

RENDER research has made it twice into the “Wikipedia Signpost“:

• The first article covers the upcoming event “Wikipedia Academy 2012” and mentions both papers of the Render team that have been accepted there. Read the full article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-06-25/Recent_research
• The second article presents the work on revert detection where the RENDER project is also working on. Read the full article here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012-05-28#New_algorithm_provides_better_revert_detection

The RENDER project was presented during the EU project networking session co-located with the 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2012).

As a result of the networking session, points of potential collaboration were identified and RENDER established contact with a number of EU projects:

• X-LIKE (Cross-lingual Knowledge Extraction),
• ENVISION (ENVIronmental Services Infrastructure with ONtologies),
• LOD2 (Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data),
• ViSTA-TV (Video Stream Analytics for Viewers in the TV Industry),
• IKS (Interactive Knowledge Stack).

More information about collaborative EU projects can be found here:

http://www.xlike.org/
http://www.envision-project.eu/
http://lod2.eu
http://www.iks-project.eu/

Wikidata will be the first new Wikimedia project since 2006

Wikimedia Deutschland is starting the development of a new Wikimedia project, called Wikidata. Wikidata will provide a collaboratively edited database of the world’s knowledge. Its first goal is to support the more than 280 language editions of Wikipedia with one common source of structured data that can be used in all articles of the free encyclopedia.

For example, with Wikidata the birth date of a person of public interest can be used in all Wikipedias and only needs to be maintained in one place. Moreover, like all of Wikidata’s information, the birth date will also be freely usable outside of Wikipedia. The common-source principle behind Wikidata is expected to lead to a higher consistency and quality within Wikipedia articles, as well as increased availability of information in the smaller language editions. At the same time, Wikidata will decrease the maintenance effort for the tens of thousands of volunteers working on Wikipedia.

Read the full press release here: English | German