OpenResearch.org: A Semantic Wiki for Research Conferences, Data, and Discovery
| MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2025 | |
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| OpenResearch.org: A Semantic Wiki for Research Conferences, Data, and Discovery | |
| Talk details | |
| Description: | OpenResearch.org is a Semantic MediaWiki–powered platform that turns scattered research-event information into structured, queryable knowledge. Built by and for the research community, it captures conferences, workshops, tracks, CFPs, program committees, proceedings, venues, and organizations with rich, linked data. This talk shows how we model scholarly events, reuse vocabularies, and expose data through templates, forms, and SPARQL-style queries. We demo common workflows (creating an event, importing CFPs, generating calendars), discuss quality control and bots, and show how others can integrate with ORCID, Wikidata, and external services. |
| Speaker(s): | Sören Auer |
| Type: | Talk, Discussion |
| Audience: | Academics |
| Event start: | 2025/10/29 13:00:00 |
| Event finish: | 2025/10/29 13:30:00 |
| Length: | 30 minutes |
| Video: | click here |
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Research information—especially about conferences, workshops, and their evolving ecosystems—lives in PDFs, scattered webpages, spreadsheets, and short-lived CFP sites. OpenResearch.org (OR) is a community-run Semantic MediaWiki instance that consolidates this information into a sustainable, machine-readable knowledge base. OR treats scholarly events as first-class citizens: events, series, tracks, organizations, committees, people, venues, and publications are represented with templates, properties, and constraints that enable discovery, analytics, and reuse.
This session presents the architecture, data model, workflows, and lessons learned from running a semantic wiki in production for more than a decade. It is aimed at academics and contributors interested in using and advancing the platform.
