Wikidata:Events/XLDB2017

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The XLDB conference (extremely large databases) will take place in October 2017 in Clermont-Ferrand (France). During their hackathon day, 4 persons will run a Wikidata and SPARQL workshop.

General information

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  • Conference: October 10-12th 2017
  • Wikidata workshop: October 12th, all day
  • Location: Clermont-Ferrand (Q42168), France (Q142) (see info about venue)
  • Description: XLDB events are uniquely targeted gatherings that discuss the real-world challenges, practical considerations, and nuts-and-bolts solutions in the realm of managing and analyzing extreme scale data sets. Attendees include Big Data users from industry / science / government, developers, researchers, and providers.
  • Language: the official language of the conference is English. The talks and workshops will be in English, but the meta organization can take place in French.

About the workshop

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During the 3rd day of the conference, there will be a hackathon with different workshops. They would like to have a Wikidata/SPARQL/reusing data one. The exact program needs to be decided with the trainers, but the raw schedule is:

  • Wikidata introduction (1h)
  • Query Service/SPARQL introduction (1h)
  • Optional: other tools to query data (API, etc) (30min)
  • Rest of the day: hackathon, people working on projects, the trainers help and support them

The expected audience is a group of 45 persons who already work in big data/large databases, academic, researchers, as much as people working in companies.

About the trainers

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