Next up at #MUDCon2025, Lukas Günther from @tibosl presents the work of the OSL team in configuring a flexible setup for our combined product #Wikibase4Research which wraps together #Wikibase, #SemanticMediaWiki, #SemanticWikibase, #SemanticKompakkt & more expensions useful to our research data management use cases, including our primary use cases in the context of @nfdi4culture
📽️ Follow along live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCjaMnxgq2Q
#MUDCon2025 day 3 continuing with different possibilities to customize MediaWiki instances for various use cases. @tibhannover colleague Alexander Gesinn presents on the visual potential of different graph visualization approaches (e.g. the KnowledgeGraph extension, and SRF Graph based on Graphviz) for hashtag#semanticmediawiki.
📽️ Follow the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCjaMnxgq2Q
More from #MUDCon2025 on the topics of AI applications & #MediaWiki development: Jeffrey Wang presented an excellent experimental analysis of current state of 'vibe coding' when developing a sample MediaWiki extension. Proposal - switching to spec-driven approach & staying open for further developments in the future.
📽️ Catch up on the full talk, including demo, via the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWzELDLmkc
The afternoon sessions of #MUDCon2025 are underway and we have one more contribution from the @tibosl team. This time Kolja Bailly presents (via pre-recorded video) on current work to integrate RAG (retrieval augmented generation) techniques to retrieve data in more intuitive ways from our Wikibase & SemanticWikibase projects, including concrete use cases. The work builds upon previous efforts from TIB colleague Alexander Gesinn and his integration of LlamaIndex for SemanticMediaWiki. It's early stages of work-in-progress, but we plan to release alpha version of the RAG extension for Wikibase4Research by end of 2025.
Video available via the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWzELDLmkc
On a meta topic of conferences, and acceptance rates and predatory practices, at the #MUDCon2025 @tibhannover's Director @soeren_auer presents on a historic #semanticmediawiki project recording data on scientific conferences. Open for further collaboration & community contribution, but also a project that can effectively explore the possibilities/challenges of using symbolic AI approaches for data curation.
Interestingly we also learn some more Leibniz trivia and the connection between the LUH logo, the binary system, China and Leibniz' notebooks.
📽️ Follow online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWzELDLmkc
And on the topics of #cultureheritage data and #wikibase at #MUDCon2025, our @tibosl colleague Lucia Sohmen presents our work and ongoing challenges using formal data models for cultural data in our service #Wikibase4Research, part of the @nfdi4culture service portfolio.
Lucia presented ideas on our current workarounds, but also what we see as crucially missing in current status quo, opening up the floor to discussions about future development & what #ECHOLOT might be able to offer.
Follow along (or catch up) via the live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWzELDLmkc
And we're officially announcing the #ECHOLOT project publicly for the first time at the #MUDCon2025 with @krabina from KMA, one of our partners in this new HORIZON Europe collaborative project. Bernhard provided some history and context to the project idea, and we outlined how we are reimagining the #MediaWiki software for the future of connected cultural heritage data together with a dozen other EU organisations. More details on the project will be published soon on the @tibhannover website.
In the meantime, stay tuned and follow along the MUDCon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWzELDLmkc
#MUDCon2025 is continuing today with various use cases for #MediaWiki software incorporating semantics – from open government data projects (@krabina) to scientific data from electronic lab notebooks (Thomas Gruber – Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)) and various interconnected humanities data (FlorianThiery – LEIZA), including a mention of @nfdi4culture & #SemanticKompakkt.
📽️ Follow the livestream for more throughout today and tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWzELDLmkc
Prof Dr Sahar Vahdati giving the keynote opening #MUDcon2025 at @tibhannover on the topic of 'Knowledge and Intelligence in the Path from Thoughts to Actions', presenting current research from her work at TIB and LUH: the Human IQ Approach combining AI-, knowledge- and rule-based approaches.
All talks can be seen in the Livestream (also scrolled back): https://www.youtube.com/live/FbvtIjIU_A4?si=NMHaiXhihmuqmtvp
Programme: https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Users_and_Developers_Conference_Fall_2025#Program
Lozana Rossenova
Semantic MediaWiki