Stefania Dumbrava

The 2025 VLDB Summer School is off to a great start at the University of Wroclaw! 🚀 7 expert keynotes, 46 outstanding students from 14 different countries, & 4 days of lectures, poster presentations, & social events 🤓

👉 vldb-sc25.cs.uni.wroc.pl

Researching graph databases, SPARQL engines, or stores for Knowledge Graphs? Submit to TGDK Special Issue: Data Management for (Knowledge) Graphs. Deadline July 1st, 2025. Resources, experience reports and extended workshop/conference papers welcome. CfP: bit.ly/4luAUXZ

train conductors in France insisting on speaking in Spanish to me, despite my attempts to switch to French (the week in Barcelona must have rubbed off on me ;))

❗ Due to many requests, we have extended the abstract submission deadline for GRADES-NDA @grades-nda.bsky.social to March 24 AoE & the paper submission deadline to March 30 AoE. We're set to have a wonderful line-up of talks & we welcome your contributions ☀️

cc: @akhilarora.bsky.social

⏰ Reminder: 17 March AoE abstract submission deadline for GRADES-NDA@SIGMOD/PODS @grades-nda.bsky.social
👉 gradesnda.github.io

cc: @akhilarora.bsky.social

Registration open until 21/04 for the 2025 VLDB Summer School ☀️ 28-31/07 - University of Wroclaw 🇵🇱

We have great lecturers on privacy preserving data management, data analytics, distributed databases, cloud computing, graph data & data(base) theory.

👉 vldb-sc25.cs.uni.wroc.pl

@vldb.bsky.social

Together with Riccardo Tommasini, we are excited to announce Yuanyuan Tian & Juan Reutter as the keynotes for the Transforming Graph Data Workshop@EDBT/ICDT 2025! 🌟 Join us March 25 in Barcelona 🇪🇸

👉 transforming-graphs-workshop.org
👉 edbticdt2025.upc.edu?contents=reg...

cc: @rictomm.bsky.social

🗓️ Upcoming 17th of March abstract submission deadline for the GRADES-NDA Workshop

🦋 Follow @grades-nda.bsky.social for updates
👉 gradesnda.github.io

🗓️ 1 week left to finalize your EDBT Round 1 submissions ☀️

Join us in Tampere in March 2026! 🇫🇮

👉 edbticdt2026.github.io?contents=imp...

General Chairs :
Kostas Stefanidis @tokost.bsky.social
& Zheying Zhang

Hello world! 😊

We invite high-quality submissions that explore innovative research and applications in graph data management and graph analytics systems. The deadline for abstract submissions is March 17th AoE 🗓️

For updates, please visit our website:
gradesnda.github.io

GRADES/NDA (@grades-nda.bsky.social)- The 8th Joint Workshop on Graph Data Management Experiences & Systems (GRADES) and Network Data Analytics (NDA) invites submissions for 2025. The deadline is March 17:
gradesnda.github.io
Organized by @sdumbrava.bsky.social and akhilarora.bsky.social

⏰ Last call for the Transforming Graph Data (TGD) Workshop @EDBT'25! ☀️

Short abstracts due Friday Jan. 31 (AoE).
Full Papers (6p LNCS) due Friday Feb. 6th (AoE).

Submission link: cmt3.research.microsoft.com/TGDWorkshop2...
Website: transforming-graphs-workshop.org

cc: @rictomm.bsky.social

🌟 Promoting diversity, EDBT/ICDT 2025 🇪🇸 awards 5 students free conference registration 🌟

📢 Call: edbticdt2025.upc.edu?contents=di_...
🏆Awards: 5 grants for free registration (travel not included)
👉Apply here: forms.gle/6MefnqBHo3pF...

📅 Apply by: Feb 3, 2025
🌈 Results: Feb 14, 2025

Please share 😊

We are still interested in your thoughts on #RDF validation technologies! Please share your experiences in our survey: forms.gle/LdXsG644obcg...

If you are working with shape languages like #SHACL or #ShEx, your insights will help us advance the future of validation technologies.

⏰ < 1 month until the 1st Round Research Papers deadline for EDBT 2026!

February 5: Paper submission
March 27: Notification
April 29: Revised paper submission
May 25: Notification for revised submission
June 9: Camera-Ready

🌏 AoE deadlines

👉 edbticdt2026.github.io?contents=imp...

TGD Workshop on Transforming Graph Data @EDBT 2025

⏰ Abstract Submission deadline this Friday, Jan. 10, 2025 AoE

🌟TGD@EDBT Workshop on Transforming Graph Data 🌟
(March 25, 2025 - Barcelona 🇪🇸)

⏰ Abstract Submission: Jan. 10 2025 AoE
💻 Paper Submission: Jan. 24 2025 AoE
🎉 Notification: Feb. 7 2025 AoE
📸 Camera Ready: Feb. 14 2025 AoE

👉 transforming-graphs-workshop.org

cc: @rictomm.bsky.social

T-7h until vacation!

Screenshot of table of contents in Volume 2, Issue 2.

Screenshot of table of contents in Volume 2, Issue 3.

Transactions on Graph Data & Knowledge (TGDK), Vol. 2, Issues 2 & 3 now available, featuring 8 resource articles, and 2 research articles! All #DiamondOA (no fees for authors/readers) w/ Dagstuhl Publishing.

Enjoy!

2(2): drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/iss...
2(3): drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/iss...

RDF Shape Languages Survey How long does this survey take to fill in? Approximately 8 minutes. Please note that half of the questions are skippable. What is the purpose of the study? The purpose of the study is to gather empiri...

We are conducting a #survey to better understand the challenges, experiences, and practical applications of validating #RDF data using #SHACL and #ShEx.

Please help us get a better overview by sharing your insights:
forms.gle/LdXsG644obcg...

It only takes around 8 minutes.

⏰ The deadline for the DEFT Track @ ICDE 2025 is now Dec. 13th AoE:

ieee-icde.org/2025/call-fo...

EDBT/ICDT now also has a BlueSky account: @edbticdt.bsky.social Preparations are well underway for the 2026 edition is Tampere, Finland 🇫🇮

ICDE 2025 welcomes PhD Symposium Submissions! 🙂 👇

⏰ Deadline: February 8, 2025 AoE
ieee-icde.org/2025/call-fo...

🌟 T-1 week for submitting your best work to the Data Engineering Future Technologies track! 🚀
Deadline: December 6th AoE

ieee-icde.org/2025/call-fo...

We're excited to announce that the VLDB Summer School will take place from Monday, 28th of July, to Thursday, 31st of July, 2025 at the University of Wroclaw, in Poland! 🇵🇱 More details to follow soon ☀️
www.linkedin.com/company/vldb...

59 % et encore deux semaines pour financer PHD
C'est fou !
J'ai envie de dire, on y est presque 😅

fr.ulule.com/phd_jeu/

Everyone is concerned about how, left to themselves, students will use GPT to do all their homework for them. What happens when you DO give students unfettered access? See our paper! The blog post even gives you a little quiz so you can check your beliefs.
blog.brownplt.org/2023/09/19/g...

Bon courage !!

2023-unconf-lisboa · Luma The rumors are true: Ink & Switch is hosting a second unconference after LIVE and PLF in Lisboa on Wednesday, October 25th, 2023. Building on last year's gathering in Berlin, we are gathering...

For anyone who will be in Cascais for SPLASH/PLF: Ink&Switch is organising an unconference in Lisbon for 25 October. If you're interested in our research area, you're very welcome to join us (it's free) lu.ma/9811r3px

Distância de timidez: o fenómeno em que algumas espécies de árvores posicionam os seus ramos de modo a assegurarem um espaço de respeito entre eles. Evita também a transmissão de doenças e pragas.
(Gilles Clément, Una Breve Historia del Jardín)

A pensar seriamente em aderir ao conceito…