DBpedia Ontology Committee

The role of the DBpedia ontology committee is to:

set the future directions of the DBpedia ontology
set best practices for mapping
engage the community in meaningful discussions, eg see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Authority_control
improve the ontology and mapping editing workflow
write best practices, eg
- Mapping Guide (thorough)
- Adding a Mapping (shorter)
- Main Page#Editorial Process
- Main Page#Testing Best Practices
- Exploring the Ontology
formulate and execute focused investigations of particular data problems, eg
- What's in a Name
- Connecting Places
post bugs, more bugs and even more bugs
fix some of these bugs

Board and Contacts (Alphabetically)

Group Chair: Monika Solanki, Oxford University Co-chairs: Gerard Kuys / Ralph Schäfermeier

Aaron Bossert, Cray Inc. (mabossert at gmail . com)
Adrian Paschke, AG. CSW - Free University of Berlin, DE (paschke at inf . fu-berlin . de)
Agnieszka Lawrynowicz (alawrynowicz at cs . put . poznan . pl)
Aldo Gangemi, Paris13 U. and ISTC-CNR Rome (aldo.gangemi . lipn . univ-paris13 . fr)
Aleksander Smywinski-Pohl, Jagiellonian University (apohllo at o2 . pl)
Alexandru Todor, AG. CSW Free University of Berlin, DE (todor at inf . fu-berlin . de)
Gerard Kuys, Ordina, NL (gerard . kuys at ordina . nl)
Harald Sack, HPI, DE (harald . sack at hpi . de)
Jens Lehmann, AKSW University of Leipzig (lehmann at informatik . uni-leipzig . de)
Lorenz Buhmann, AKSW University of Leipzig (lehmann at informatik . uni-leipzig . de)
Magnus Knuth, HPI, DE, (magnus . knuth at hpi . de)
Marcin Roszkowski, University of Warsaw, PL (m.roszkowski at uw . edu . pl)
Marco Fossati, FBK, IT (fossati at spaziodati . eu)
Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, OEG-UPM (mcsuarez at fi . upm . es)
Martin Brümmer (bruemmer at informatik . uni-leipzig .de)
Peter Patel-Schneider (Peter . Patel-Schneider at nuance . com )
Ralph Schäfermeier, AG. CSW - Free University of Berlin, DE (schaef at inf . fu-berlin . de)
Vladimir Alexiev, Ontotext, BG (vladimir . alexiev at ontotext . com )
Volha Bryl, University of Mannheim (volha at informatik . uni-mannheim . de )