Call for Contributions

We invite you to propose your contribution to WikiCite Satellite Cologne! We especially welcome topics such as:

1. use of bibliographic data in Wikibase and Wikimedia projects 
2. applications and tools to process, analyze and visualize scientific information 
3. strategies to enhance the bibliographic information on large scale 
4. bibliometric analyses and quantitative science studies 
5. ethical and social aspects of data collection and analysis 
6. open citations and open bibliographic data

Please suggest your contribution with a short abstract with a maximum of 500 words. Please let us know whether you prefer German or English as conference language. We also need your contact information.

The conference contains different forms of contributions. So please specify the format and how much time you are going to need. You have the following options:

1. hands-on workshops:
   practical tutorials with up to 30 participants each
   topic examples: introduction to Wikidata or other Wikimedia projects, introduction to bibliometrics, how-to and best-practice guides around tools
   timeframe: up to 150 minutes 
2. talks:
   traditional presentations
   timeframe: 10 to 30 minutes, including questions
3. discussions:
   self-organized barcamp-like open discussion with up to 30 participants
   timeframe: up to 60 minutes 
4. demos:
   interactive demo of a tool or prototype
   timeframe: 10 to 15 minutes 
5. posters:
   visually appealing and informative description of a topic to be shown at the conference site.
   It is also possible to provide a poster without personally participating. Please indicate this in your submission.

All participants can also give spontaneous lightning talks.

Submission 

Contributions can be submitted openly in the Wikidata wiki. Both English and German contributions will be accepted. Please create an account (any Wikimedia project such as Wikipedia will do) and submit your contribution via the event page. The submission form opens a template to publish your submission with full title and additional information. All submissions are listed at Category:WikiCite_Satellite_Cologne_2020_Submission.

Program committee 

Submissions will be reviewed and decided on by the program committee. 

• Eva Seidlmayer (ZB MED) 
• Konrad Förstner (ZB MED, TH Köln) 
• Philipp Mayr (GESIS) 
• Jakob Voß (VZG) 
• Claudia Müller-Birn (FU Berlin) 
• Philipp Zumstein (UB Mannheim) 
• Philipp Schaer (TH Köln)

Information summary:

• What: WikiCite Satellite conference
• Who: GESIS, ZB MED, TH Köln
• Where: GESIS, Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, 50667 Köln
• When: May 6-8, 2020
• Submission deadline for contributions: February 16, 2020
• Registration: starts in March 2020 (limited to 100 participants, first come, first serve)
• Hashtag: #WikiCite20 (also for other WikiCite satellite conferences in 2020)
• Keywords: WikiCite • Wikidata • Bibliography • Linked Open Data • Knowledge Graph • Open Access • Information Retrieval • Digital Libraries • Bibliometrics

To the event page
To Category:WikiCite Satellite Cologne 2020 Submission