<div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear members of the GeoForAll mailing list, </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">As the <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">GISRUK</span> <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Seminar</span> Series Chair it gives me great please to let you know about the following <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">seminar</span>. This <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">seminar</span> will be of interest to many members of the GeoForAll community. </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt">I know that this might be short notice but there is still lots of time to register (free). </span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:18.4px;background:transparent">The <a href="http://gisruk.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">GISRUK</span></a> (GIS Research UK) committee are delighted to announce the first <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">seminar</span> in the <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">GISRUK</span> <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Online</span> <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Seminar</span> Series 2021 where we welcome <a href="https://demidova.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Prof. Dr. Elena Demidova</a>, (<a href="https://twitter.com/elen2016?lang=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Twitter</a>) University of Bonn, Germany who will talk about "<strong>Semantic geographic knowledge on a world-scale – interlinking OpenStreetMap and knowledge graphs</strong>". The <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">seminar</span> will take place, <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">online</span>, on Thursday 25^th March 2021 at 14:00 – 15:00 UTC.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:18.4px;background:transparent"><b>Lecture Summary</b></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:18.4px;background:transparent">OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a rich source of openly available volunteered geographic information on a world scale. However, representations of geographic entities in OSM are highly diverse and incomplete. Knowledge graphs (i.e. graph-based knowledge repositories) such as Wikidata, EventKG, and DBpedia are a rich source of contextual semantic information about geographic entities. For example, Wikidata contains over six million geographic entities, including locations, points of interest, mountain peaks, etc. Whereas knowledge graphs provide a wide range of complementary semantic information for geographic entities, interlinking between knowledge graphs and OSM is insufficient with the links mainly manually defined by volunteers. This lecture will introduce emerging approaches that address tighter integration of OSM and knowledge graphs; it gives particular attention to link discovery and semantic enrichment of OSM datasets.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:18.4px;background:transparent"><strong>This <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">online</span> event is completely free to attend but registration </strong><strong>in advance</strong><strong> is essential. </strong>Registered participants will receive joining details (Zoom link, <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">seminar</span> format, etc.) via email before the event.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:18.4px;background:transparent"><strong>For more information: </strong>Please contact myself <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">GISRUK</span> <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Seminar</span> Series Chair Peter Mooney (<a href="mailto:peter.mooney@mu.ie" target="_blank">peter.mooney@mu.ie</a>) for more information. If you are on Twitter please follow the series on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/GISRUK" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">@<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">GISRUK</span></a> and post about the series using hashtag #<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">GISRUK</span>Lectures</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:18.4px;background:transparent">Please forward this information to any colleagues, students, networks or members of the public who may be interested in attending but may not be subscribed to this email distribution list. Publication on any appropriate social media channels is also greatly appreciated. </p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:18.4px;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:12pt">With best wishes, </span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:18.4px;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:18.4px;background:transparent"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:12pt">Peter</span></p></div></div>