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

[Peter Mooney]

Apologies - the link for registration is missing from the original email.
Please use the link here to register.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/141817862043/

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:52 AM Peter Mooney <petermooney78 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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 #
> GISRUKLectures
>
> 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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