Denny Vrandečić

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Denny Vrandečić is a Croatian computer scientist and Wikimedian best known for founding Wikidata and proposing the Wikifunctions project.

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Denny Vrandečić canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Wikimedian
computer scientist
human
researcher
software engineer
affiliation Wikimedia Foundation Abstract Wikipedia team
countryOfCitizenship Croatia
Germany
dateOfBirth 1978
educatedAt University of Karlsruhe
surface form: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

University of Stuttgart
employer German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
surface form: AIFB Institute

Google
University of Karlsruhe
surface form: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Wikimedia Foundation
fieldOfWork collaborative knowledge bases
knowledge representation
ontologies
semantic web
hasRole Semantic MediaWiki developer
founder of Wikidata
initiator of Wikifunctions
knownFor founding Wikidata
proposing Wikifunctions
work on Semantic MediaWiki
work on structured data for Wikimedia projects
languageSpokenWrittenOrSigned Croatian
English
German
memberOf Wikimedia ecosystem
surface form: Wikimedia movement
notableIdea centralized structured data repository for Wikimedia projects
function-based knowledge representation for Wikifunctions
notableWork Semantic MediaWiki
Wikidata
Wikifunctions
research on ontology evaluation
occupation computer scientist
researcher
software engineer
participatedIn Semantic MediaWiki
surface form: Semantic MediaWiki project

design of Wikifunctions
development of Wikidata
placeOfBirth Stuttgart
positionHeld Head of Special Projects at Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedian in Residence at Google
worksOn Abstract Wikipedia
surface form: abstract Wikipedia

multilingual knowledge representation

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Wikifunctions proposedBy Denny Vrandečić
Abstract Wikipedia proposedBy Denny Vrandečić