The 1st Wikidata Workshop

Organization

Organizing Committee

Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, University of Southampton. lucie.kaffee[[@]]gmail.com

Lucie-Aimée Kaffee is a PhD candidate at ECS, University of Southampton and research intern at Bloomberg’s AI Group in London. She was previously a research fellow at TIB, Hannover and software developer in the Wikidata team, Wikimedia Germany. Her research focus is multilingual linked data in collaborative knowledge graphs, and she has published on Wikidata research. Lucie was the proceedings chair of ISWC 2018, OC of AMAR: First International Workshop on Approaches for Making Data Interoperable at SEMANTiCS 2019 and participated in the PC of The Web Conference 2020, AAAI-20 Students, ESWC 2019, ISWC 2019 and SEMANTiCS 2019 and of the workshops Wikidata Quality 2019 and Workshop on Contextualized Knowledge Graphs at ISWC 2018 and ISWC 2019. She has organized Ladies that FOSS (2016), an event to enable a more diverse open source development community, Wikidata meetings in London (2018) and was part of the committee of WikidataCon 2019.

Oana Tifrea-Marciuska, Bloomberg. otifreamarci[[@]]bloomberg.net

Oana Tifrea-Marciuska is a senior research scientist and engineer with Bloomberg’s AI Group in London. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, in 2017. From 2016 to 2018, she was with the Alan Turing Institute in London and the University of Oxford as a Post-Doctoral Researcher and a Visiting Researcher, respectively. Her research ranges from Semantic Web, personalisation, adaptive learning systems and semantic parsing. She is the co-founder of Oxford Women in Computer Science Society (OxWoCS), that aims to promote and support women in computer science. She co-organised for OxWoCS various events like panels, industry events, distinguished speakers events and Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference (an annual conference co-organised by OxWoCS and Cambridge women@CL that aims to bring together junior and senior female computer scientists at Oxford and Cambridge, with the aim to encourage collaboration through formal and informal discussion). Dr. Tifrea-Marciuska was a recipient of multiple awards and honors, including the EPSRC Doctoral Prize, the Google European Fellowship in Social Search, and the Google Anita Scholarship.

Elena Simperl, University of Southampton. E.Simperl[[@]]soton.ac.uk

Elena Simperl is professor of computer science at the University of Southampton and director of the Southampton Data Science Academy. She is also one of the Directors of the Web Science Institute, a Turing Fellow and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. 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, often as principal investigator or project lead. Currently she is the PI of four grants: the EU-funded Data Pitch, which supports SMEs to innovate with data, the EU-funded QROWD, which uses crowd and artificial intelligence to improve smart transportation systems, the EPSRC-funded Data Stories, which works on methods and tools to make data more engaging, and the EU funded ACTION, which develops social computing methods for citizen science. She authored more than 150 papers in semantic technologies, linked data, social computing and crowdsourcing and was programme/general chair of the European and International Semantic Web Conference, the European Data Forum and the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing.

Denny Vrandečić, Wikimedia Foundation. dvrandecic[[@]]wikimedia.org

Denny Vrandečić is head of the Abstract Wikipedia project. He was an ontologist for the Google Knowledge Graph, founder of Wikidata, the collaboratively edited knowledge base behind Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, founding administrator of the Croatian Wikipedia, co-creator of the widely used Semantic MediaWiki software, and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. He received a PhD from KIT on the topic of ontology evaluation. He has been working in Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Rome, Los Angeles, Berlin, and now San Francisco.

Program Committee

Dan Brickley, Google

Andrew D. Gordon, Microsoft Research & University of Edinburgh

Dennis Diefenbach, University Jean Monet

Aidan Hogan, Universidad de Chile

Markus Krötzsch, Technische Universität Dresden

Edgar Meij, Bloomberg

Claudia Müller-Birn, FU Berlin

Finn Årup Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark

Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Télécom ParisTech

Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland

Alessandro Piscopo, BBC

Marco Ponza, University of Pisa

Simon Razniewski, Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation

Cristina Sarasua, University of Zurich

Maria-Esther Vidal, TIB Hannover

Pavlos Vougiouklis, Huawei Technologies, Edinburgh

Zainan Victor Zhou, Google

In memory of Amrapali Zaveri, who would have been on the program committee.