Talks
I regularly give talks on topics related to Free Software and Open Culture. My main topics are Wikidata, KDE, community building and Linked Open Data.
If you would like me to speak at your event please do get in touch.
Here is a selection of my talks:
2025
| Date | Event | Topic | Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-28 | Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon | Keynote: Wikidata - Giving more people more access to more knowledge with Wikimedia’s knowledge graph | slides |
| 2025-02-25 | Wikidata Data Reuse Days | Wikidata Query Service: Where are we? Where is it going? | slides |
| 2025-02-19 | Wikidata Data Reuse Days | How to use Wikidata’s data: an introduction | slides |
| 2025-02-18 | Wikidata Data Reuse Days | Wikidata data access methods: research results | slides |
2024
| Date | Event | Topic | Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-13 | Linked Data im Zeitalter der generativen Künstlichen Intelligenz Symposium | The Wikidata open-source knowledge graph, semantic search and AI | |
| 2024-12-12 | Linked Data im Zeitalter der generativen Künstlichen Intelligenz Symposium | Wikidata: Wikimedia’s knowledge graph and your Rosetta Stone for the web | |
| 2024-12-03 | AWS re:Invent | Bring AI to life with DataStax, NVIDIA, and Wikimedia (panel) | |
| 2024-08-09 | Wikimania | Wikidata XXX Days - engage and create connections with the Wikimedia community online | slides |
| 2024-08-08 | Wikimania | Wikidata Query Service - the way forward for getting the most out of Wikimedia’s knowledge graph | slides |
| 2024-08-08 | Wikimania | A developer’s guide through the data jungle - getting you to Wikidata’s data | slides |
| 2024-06-28 to 2024-06-30 | Wikidata Lexicodays | various sessions about lexicographical data in Wikidata | see event page |
| 2024-06-19 | AI_dev Europe | Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Enable Equitable and Validated Generative AI | slides, video |
| 2024-04-05 to 2024-04-14 | Wikidata Leveling Up Days | various introductory sessions about Wikidata | see event page |
2023
| Date | Event | Topic | Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-06 | People Identifiers Roundtrip to Collection Management Systems Workshop | Wikidata: The Rosetta Stone of the Linked Data Web | slides |
| 2023-11-13 | Meeting C++ | Keynote: Helping open communities thrive - lessons from Free Software and Open Knowledge | slides |
| 2023-10-29 | WikidataCon | Ontology issues in Wikidata - Everything in neat and tidy boxes? Not quite! | slides |
| 2023-10-28 | WikidataCon | Spreading our data further with the Wikibase REST API | slides |
| 2023-10-28 | WikidataCon | Wikidata: What happened over the past year? What’s next? | slides |
| 2023-09-05 | First Wikibase Lexical Data Workshop | Lexicographical data in Wikidata: Because technology should speak your language! | slides |
| 2023-08-18 | Wikimania | Scaling Wikidata Query Service - unlimited access to all the world’s knowledge for everyone is hard | slides |
| 2023-08-18 | Wikimania | Let’s get closer - Let us show you how you can already benefit from Wikidata in your Wikimedia project and chat about how to make it even better | slides |
| 2023-08-17 | Wikimania | AI advancements and the Wikimedia projects | |
| 2023-05-14 | Queering Wikipedia | Level up your wiki editing with Wikidata queries | slides |
| 2023-05-09 | Knowledge Graph Conference | Masterclass: Deep-dive into Wikidata | slides |
| 2023-04-25 | WikiCite community calls | Scientific articles and beyond in Wikidata | slides |
| 2023-03-28 | European Union SEMIC workshop | Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem |
2022
| Date | Event | Topic | Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-24 | 3rd Wikidata Workshop @ ISWC | Keynote: 10 years of Wikidata - insights for researchers and current challenges | slides |
| 2022-10-02 | Akademy | Project-specific fundraising and what it means for KDE e.V. | slides |
| 2022-07-12 | LD4 Conference | Wikidata - Where are we? What’s coming? | |
| 2022-07-10 | Wikidata Data Quality Days | Item Quality Evaluator | slides |
| 2022-03-22 | Wikidata Data Reuse Days | Let’s keep in sync - an intro to the Mismatch Finder | slides |
| 2022-03-19 | Wikidata Data Reuse Days | Wikitrivia | slides |
| 2022-03-15 | Wikidata Data Reuse Days | How to retrieve Wikidata’s data - your guide through the jungle | slides |
| 2022-03-15 | Wikidata Data Reuse Days | Best practices for reusing Wikidata’s data | slides |
2021
| Date | Event | Topic | Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-18 | Fachtagung des Netzwerks maschinelle Verfahren in der Erschließung | Wikidata : Datenqualität in einer offenen Wissensdatenbank | slides |
| 2021-10-30 | WikidataCon | Scaling Wikidata Query Service - unlimited access to all the world’s knowledge for everyone is hard | slides |
| 2021-10-30 | WikidataCon | Wikidata and Wikibase - What happened? Where are we going? | slides |
| 2021-10-30 | WikidataCon | Taking in feedback from re-users at scale | slides |
| 2021-10-30 | WikidataCon | Ontology issues in Wikidata | slides |
| 2021-10-30 | WikidataCon | Measuring and monitoring data quality - How do we know if our data is high quality? | slides |
| 2021-10-30 | WikidataCon | A world in which 99% of Wikidata’s editors never come to Wikidata.org | slides |
| 2021-09-13 | Wikidata Data Quality Days | Ontology issues in Wikidata | slides |
| 2021-09-10 | Wikidata Data Quality Days | Mismatch Finder and beyond - How can we incorporate feedback from big re-users at scale? | slides |
| 2021-09-09 | Wikidata Data Quality Days | ORES - Using AI for quality control in Wikidata | slides |
| 2021-09-08 | Wikidata Data Quality Days | Opening session | slides |
| 2021-08-17 | Wikimania | Neat and tidy: data quality on Wikidata | material |
| 2021-08-16 | Wikimania | Wikidata: What happened? Where are we going? | material |
| 2021-08-16 | Wikimania | Making feedback loops work for Wikidata | material |
| 2021-06-20 | Akademy | Make a living in KDE | slides |
| 2021-03-18 | ENDORSE | Wikidata as a central hub in the linked open data web | slides and video (day 3) |
2020
| Date | Event | Topic | Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-11-25 | SMWCon | What’s new in the world of Wikibase and where is it going? | |
| 2020-10-02 | 1st Wikidata Workshop @ ISWC | Keynote: Wikidata - giving more people more access to more knowledge | |
| 2020-02-01 | FOSDEM | Wikibase Ecosystem - taking Wikidata further | slides |
| 2020-02-01 | FOSDEM | Lexemes in Wikidata - structured lexicographical data for everyone | slides |
| 2020-01-20 | Qurator Conference | Data quality in Wikidata |
Before 2020
| Date | Event | Topic | Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-25 | WikidataCon | Wikidata and languages | slides |
| 2019-10-25 | WikidataCon | A glimpse at Wikidata - state of the project | slides |
| 2019-08-16 | Wikimania | GLAM Wikidata keynote | slides |
| 2019-08-16 | Wikimania | Something small for everyone - quick contribution ideas with Wikidata | slides |
| 2019-08-16 | Wikimania | Everyone gets one - Wikibase and the Wikibase Ecosystem | slides |
| 2018-12-03 | GNDCon | Keynote: Wikidata and libraries | program |
| 2018-07-22 | Wikimania | What does this mean in … - building bridges with machine-readable lexicographical data in Wikidata | slides |
| 2018-07-20 | Wikimania | Wikidata - building bridges every single day | slides |
| 2017-10-29 | WikidataCon | Wikidata + Wiktionary - lexicographical data for everyone | slides |
| 2017-10-28 | WikidataCon | Wikidata - state of the project | slides |
| 2017-08-13 | Wikimania | Bringing lexicographical data to Wikidata | slides |
| 2017-08-12 | Wikimania | The (Wiki)Data (R)Evolution | slides |
| 2017-04-26 | foss-north | Keynote: Wikidata - lessons learned from building a knowledge base with 17000 volunteers | slides |
| 2017-02-10 | WSDM Cup Workshop | Keynote | |
| 2016-10-11 | DKT16 - Smarte Technologien für Wissensarbeiter | Kuratierungstechnologien für und mit Wikidata | |
| 2016-09-15 | DBpedia Conference | Bringing structured data to Wikipedia with 16000 volunteers | slides |
| 2016-09-04 | QtCon | Wikidata and your application: Make your software part of the Free Knowledge ecosystem | slides |
| 2016-09-03 | QtCon | Quo Vadis, KDE? A FOSS Community’s Journey toward its Vision and Mission | slides |
| 2016-06-26 | Wikimania | User Digest: Wikidata - the most important things you need to know about Wikidata, its community and the ideas behind it | slides |
| 2015-10-11 | World Health Summit | Wikidata: Giving More People More Access to More Knowledge |