[Geo4All] GISRUK Online Seminar Series 2021 - Thursday 25 March 2021 14:00 - 15:00 GMT

[Peter Mooney]

Dear members of the GeoForAll mailing list,

As the GISRUK Seminar Series Chair it gives me great please to let you know
about the following seminar. This seminar will be of interest to many
members of the GeoForAll community.

I know that this might be short notice but there is still lots of time to
register (free).

The GISRUK <http://gisruk.org/> (GIS Research UK) committee are delighted
to announce the first seminar in the GISRUK Online Seminar Series 2021
where we welcome Prof. Dr. Elena Demidova <https://demidova.wordpress.com/>,
(Twitter <https://twitter.com/elen2016?lang=en>) University of Bonn,
Germany who will talk about "*Semantic geographic knowledge on a
world-scale – interlinking OpenStreetMap and knowledge graphs*". The
seminar will
take place, online, on Thursday 25th March 2021 at 14:00 – 15:00 UTC.

*Lecture Summary*

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.

*This online event is completely free to attend but registration **in
advance** is essential. *Registered participants will receive joining
details (Zoom link, seminar format, etc.) via email before the event.

*For more information: *Please contact myself GISRUK Seminar Series Chair
Peter Mooney (peter.mooney at mu.ie) for more information. If you are on
Twitter please follow the series on Twitter at @GISRUK
<https://twitter.com/GISRUK> and post about the series using hashtag #GISRUK
Lectures

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.

With best wishes,


Peter
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