Denny Vrandečić

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Denny Vrandečić (2015)

Zdenko "Denny" Vrandečić (born February 27, 1978 in Stuttgart ) is a Croatian computer scientist .

Live and act

Vrandečić attended the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Stuttgart and studied computer science and philosophy at the University of Stuttgart from 1997 and received his doctorate in 2010 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , where he worked as a research assistant in the knowledge management research group at the Institute for Applied Computer Science and Formal Description Languages from 2004 to 2012 (AFIB) was. In 2010 he was at the University of Southern California (ISI). Vrandečić worked on the Knowledge Graph at Google . In September 2019, Denny Vrandečić announced that he was taking on a new role in Google's development department, which was to explain the Wikimedia projects to the other employees. In July 2020, he left Google and moved to the Wikimedia Foundation , where he has since been working on building Abstract Wikipedia , a new sister project of Wikipedia . The aim is to use structured data from Wikidata to create a multilingual, machine-operated knowledge platform.

Vrandečić deals with knowledge databases, data mining , massive web-based collaboration and the semantic web . In 2012/13 he was project manager for Wikidata at Wikimedia Germany . With Markus Krötzsch (who was also a long time in the knowledge management group at KIT) he is co-developer of the Semantic MediaWiki (SMW), which was also the inspiration for Wikidata.

He is one of the founders and administrators of the Croatian Wikipedia . In 2008 he was the head of the Wikimania scientific program .

Fonts

  • with Markus Krötzsch : Wikidata: a free collaborative knowledge base . In: Communications of the ACM , Volume 57, No. 10, 2014, pp. 78-85.
  • with M. Völkel, M. Krötzsch, H. Haller, R. Studer: Semantic wikipedia . In: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web , 2006, pp. 585-594
  • with Markus Krötzsch, M. Völker, H. Haller, R. Studer: Semantic wikipedia . In: Journal of Web Semantics , Volume 5, 2007, pp. 251-261
  • with A. Ankolekar, T. Tran, M. Krötzsch: The Two Cultures: Mashing up Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web . In: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on World Wide Web , 2007, pp. 825-834
  • with Markus Krötzsch: Semantic mediawiki . In: Foundations for the Web of Information and Services . Springer, 2011, pp. 311-326
  • The Rise of Wikidata . In: IEEE Intelligent Systems , Volume 28, 2013, pp. 90-95
  • Capturing meaning: Toward an abstract Wikipedia . ISWC 2018
  • Editor with Others: The Semantic Web . ISWC 2018: 17th International Semantic Web Conference, Monterey 2018, Springer 2018
  • Editor with Others: The Semantic Web . ISWC 2014: 13th International Semantic Web Conference, Riva del Garda 2014, Springer 2014
  • Architecture for a multilingual wikipedia , Arxiv, April 8, 2020

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Google Research
  2. ↑ Denny Vrandečić: Personal news: a new role. In: Wikidata mailing list. Wikimedia Foundation, September 19, 2019, accessed September 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Denny Vrandečić: Architecture for a multilingual Wikipedia . In: arXiv: 2004.04733 [cs] . April 8, 2020, arxiv : 2004.04733 (English).
  4. ^ Katherine Maher: Announcing a new Wikimedia project: Abstract Wikipedia. In: Mailing lists Wikimedia-1, Wikimedia Announcements. Wikimedia Foundation, July 2, 2020, accessed July 14, 2020 .
  5. ^ Lydia Pintscher: The Wikidata team . Blog Wikimedia.de, April 4, 2012
  6. ^ Wikidata. International Center for Computational Logic, TU Dresden
personal data
SURNAME Vrandečić, Denny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vrandečić, Zdenko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart