Denny Vrandečić

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Denny Vrandečić
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Denny Vrandečić in 2015
Born
Zdenko Vrandečić

(1978-02-27) February 27, 1978 (age 43)
Stuttgart, Germany
Alma materKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known forWikidata
Wikifunctions
Semantic MediaWiki
Scientific career
FieldsWikis
Semantic Web
Semantic wikis
Web-based collaborative systems[1]
InstitutionsGoogle
Wikimedia Foundation
University of Southern California
ThesisOntology evaluation (2010)
Doctoral advisorRudi Studer[2]
Websitesimia.net


Zdenko "Denny" Vrandečić, (born February 27, 1978 in Stuttgart, Germany), is a Croatian computer scientist. He was a co-developer of Semantic MediaWiki and Wikidata, now[when?] the lead developer of the Wikifunctions project, and an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation as a Head of Special Projects, Structured Content.[3] He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, United States.[citation needed]

Education[]

Vrandečić attended the Geschwister-Scholl Gymnasium in Stuttgart and from 1997 he studied computer science and philosophy at the University of Stuttgart. He received his doctorate in 2010 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT),[2][4][5] where he was a research associate in the Knowledge Management Research Group at the Institute for Applied Computer Science and Formal Description Languages (AFIB), with Rudi Studer, from 2004 to 2012. In 2010, he visited the University of Southern California (ISI).[citation needed]

Career and research[]

Vrandečić is involved in knowledge bases, data mining, massive web-based collaboration, and the Semantic Web. In 2012/2013, he was project manager for Wikidata (Wikipedia sister project) at Wikimedia Germany.[6] Together with Markus Krötzsch (who was also at KIT for a long time[quantify] in the Knowledge Management group), he is co-developer of the Semantic MediaWiki (SMW), which was also the inspiration for Wikidata.[7]

In 2013 Vrandečić worked as an ontologist at Google on the Knowledge Graph,[8] the knowledge base used by Google to compile its search engine results with semantic information from various sources.[9] In September 2019, Vrandečić announced that he was taking on a new role in Google's development department as Wikimedian in Residence, which consisted of explaining Wikimedia projects to other employees.[10] In July 2020, he left Google to join the Wikimedia Foundation, where he has since been involved in building Wikifunctions (previously known as Abstract Wikipedia), a new sister project to Wikipedia. It aims to use structured data from Wikidata to create a multilingual, machine-driven knowledge platform.[11]

Vrandečić is one of the founders and administrators of Croatian Wikipedia. In 2008, he served as head of the scientific program of Wikimania.

Vrandečić was served on the Board of Trustees from 2015 to 2016.[12]

Publications[]

Vrandečić's publications[1][4] include:

  • Denny Vrandečić; Markus Krötzsch (October 2014). "Wikidata: a free collaborative knowledgebase". Communications of the ACM. 57 (10): 78–85. doi:10.1145/2629489. ISSN 0001-0782. Wikidata Q18507561.
  • Markus Krötzsch; Denny Vrandečić; Max Völkel; Heiko Haller; Rudi Studer (December 2007). "Semantic Wikipedia". Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web. 5 (4): 251–261. doi:10.1016/J.WEBSEM.2007.09.001. ISSN 1873-7749. S2CID 45934347. Wikidata Q27826821.
  • Anupriya Ankolekar; Markus Krötzsch; Thanh Tran; Denny Vrandečić (February 2008). "The two cultures: Mashing up Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web". Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web. 6 (1): 70–75. doi:10.1016/J.WEBSEM.2007.11.005. ISSN 1873-7749. Wikidata Q27634247.
  • Denny Vrandečić (July 2013). James Hendler; Elena Simperl (eds.). "The Rise of Wikidata". IEEE Intelligent Systems. 28 (4): 90–95. doi:10.1109/MIS.2013.119. ISSN 1541-1672. Wikidata Q37108228.
  • Denny Vrandečić (October 2018), Capturing meaning: Toward an abstract Wikipedia (PDF), Wikidata Q56876997
  • Denny Vrandečić (8 April 2020), Architecture for a multilingual Wikipedia (PDF), arXiv:2004.04733, Wikidata Q95946302
  • Denny Vrandečić (April 2021). "Building a Multilingual Wikipedia". Communications of the ACM. 64 (4): 38–41. doi:10.1145/3425778. ISSN 0001-0782. Wikidata Q106143058.

Personal life[]

Vrandečić holds both Croatian and US citizenship.[13]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Denny Vrandečić publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Vrandečić, Denny (2010). Ontology evaluation. kit.edu (PhD thesis). Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. doi:10.5445/IR/1000018419. OCLC 1184439877.
  3. ^ Hilmar Schmundt: A Wikipedia for all. How the online encyclopedia Wikipedia wants to become a universal translation machine. In: Der Spiegel. No. 3, January 16, 2021, pp. 102-103 (about Abstract Wikipedia and Denny Vrandečić)
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Denny Vrandečić at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ "Institute AIFB - Denny Vrandecic/en". aifb.kit.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  6. ^ "Das Wikidata-Team". Wikimedia Deutschland Blog (in German). 2012-04-04. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  7. ^ "Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  8. ^ "Denny Vrandečić at Google". research.google.com. Archived from the original on 2014-07-05.
  9. ^ "Denny Vrandecic". The Knowledge Graph Conference. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  10. ^ "personal announcement".
  11. ^ "Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement - Meta". meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  12. ^ "Wikimedia Foundation elections 2015/Results". meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
  13. ^ "Eine Wikipedia für alle". Der Spiegel, Nr. 3, S. 102. 16 January 2021.
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