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== English ==
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'''Denny Vrandečić''' (actually '''Zdenko''', but most people have a really hard time to pronounce that) is working at [[affiliation::Wikimedia Deuschland]]. Previously he has been at the Institute [[AIFB]] at the [[KIT]] (Karlsruhe Institue of Technology). He is currently working on the project [[Wikidata]]. One of his major motivations is to make the world a better place for all people. He used to say that he wants to save the world, but he realized at some point that this would require the necessity for being saved, a situation which would not be much desired.
 
  
He worked and researched on topics of massive collaboration and the Semantic Web. He is convinced that Semantic Web technologies can help in making computers much easier to use, and to provide new services and possibilities based on top of the Semantic Web. It should improve communication and decision-making, create less misunderstandings, improve collaboration, so that more and more people can unfold their whole potential.
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2020 was a challenging year, particularly due to the pandemic. Some things were very different, some things were dangerous, and the pandemic exposed the fault lines in many societies in a most tragic way around the world.
  
He got awarded a PhD ''summa cum laude'', more correctly: a Doctor of political sciences (Dr.rer.pol.) at the Faculty of Economics, after succesfully finishing his studies in computer science and philosophy. He is pretty happy that this combination makes more sense in reality than it sounds.
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Let's hope that 2021 will be better in that respect, that we will have learned from how the events unfolded.
He was a visiting researcher at the Laboratory of Applied Ontologies at the CNR, Rome, and the ISI Information Sciences Institute, USC University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
 
  
Denny also likes to write. Like for Germany's most succesful role playing game, ''Das Schwarze Auge'' (translated as ''The Dark Eye'' in English). He used to work on several Open Source projects around that game, ''DSA4 Werkzeug'' and ''Niobaras Foliant''. He was founding administrator of the Croatian Wikipedia, Webmaster here at Simia, and working (very irregularly) on the webcomic ''nutkidz''. He also collaborated on a translation of ''something*positive'' to German.
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But I'm also amazed by how fast the vaccine was developed and made available to tens of millions.
  
His master thesis created the first validating XML parser and DOM implementation accessible from the Ada 95 programming language.
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I think there's some chance that the summer of '21 will become one to sing about for a generation.
  
Denny comes from the beautiful island of Brač, in Dalmatia. Therefore he not only roots for the Croatian soccer team in international games, but also used to work intensively on the Croatian Wikipedia. He also worked on the English and German Wikipedia before. Today he is more working on the backend software, extending MediaWiki, the software Wikipedia runs on, with extensions that allow the wiki to ''understand'' the content of the wiki pages. Whatever that means.
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Happy New Year 2021!
  
Oh, and he is terrible at answering emails.
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== Deutsch ==
 
'''Denny Vrandečić''' (eigentlich ja Zdenko, aber seitdem ich in den USA war und dort kein Mensch Zdenko aussprechen konnte, legte ich mir den Rufnamen Denny zu. Wieder zurück in Deutschland stellte ich fest, dass auch hier die Menschen sich mit Denny viel leichter tun, und blieb deswegen dabei) möchte die Welt retten (nicht, dass das implizieren würde, dass die notwendige Vorbedingung gegeben sei oder dies von Denny gewünscht wird), oder zumindest den Menschen helfen. Allen Menschen.
 
 
 
Deswegen arbeitet und forscht er an Themen wie massiv-kollaborative Systeme und dem Semantic Web. Fest davon überzeugt, dass dadurch Computer viel einfacher zu benutzen sein werden als sie es heute sind, dadurch es weniger genervte Menschen gibt, die Kommunikation verbessert wird, wodurch es weniger Missverständnisse gibt, und mehr Menschen ihr Potenzial entfalten können, womit es mehr Zufriedenheit auf der Welt gibt.
 
 
 
Er hat von der Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften einen Doktor der Politik erhalten, nachdem er erfolgreich sein Studium der Informatik und Philosophie abgeschlossen hatte. Er ist ganz froh darüber, dass er seine verschiedenen Interessen so glücklich unter einen (Doktor-)Hut passen.
 
 
 
Außerdem schreibt Denny gerne. Etwa für Deutschlands erfolgreichstes Rollenspiel, Das Schwarze Auge. Für DSA arbeitete er auch an zwei Tools, beides Open Source Projekte, dem DSA4 Werkzeug und Niobaras Foliant. Auch bei der Arbeit kommen immer wieder Publikationen raus. Zudem ist er Webmaster auf Simia. Auch an einem Webcomic, den nutkidz arbeitete er mit, ebenso wirkte er an der Übersetzung von something*positive ins Deutsche mit.
 
 
 
Ein weiteres Open Source Projekt entstand aus seiner Diplomarbeit, XML4Ada95, und bot damit das erste validierende XML-Paket für die Programmiersprache Ada 95 an.
 
 
 
Denny stammt von der wunderschönen Insel Brač in Dalmatien. Das führt dazu, dass er bei Fußballspielen immer noch mehr oder weniger heimlich die kroatische Nationalmannschaft unterstützt und nicht nur bei der englischen und deutschen Wikipedia mitarbeitet, sondern auch erster Administrator auf der kroatischen Wikipedia war, weil er ihr einiges an Starthilfe geleistet hat.
 
 
 
Schließlich ist er furchtbar wenn es darum geht, Emails zu beantworten.
 
 
 
== External links ==
 
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata Wikidata]
 
* [http://www.aifb.kit.edu/web/Denny_Vrandecic/en Denny at AIFB], including my [http://www.aifb.kit.edu/web/Denny_Vrandecic/Publikationen/en List of Publications]
 
* [http://www.facebook.com/vrandezo Denny on Facebook]
 
* [http://twitter.com/vrandezo Denny on Twitter]
 
 
 
== URIs that identify me ==
 
The canonical URI for me -- well, according to my definition, and it '''is''' me after all :) -- is http://simia.net/id/Denny
 
 
 
Here are some other URIs of mine:
 
* [[equivalent URI::http://www.aifb.kit.edu/id/Denny_Vrandecic]]
 
* [[equivalent URI::http://data.semanticweb.org/person/denny-vrandecic]]
 
* [[equivalent URI::http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Special:URIResolver/Denny_Vrandecic]]
 
* [[equivalent URI::http://rdf.freebase.com/rdf/en/denny_vrande_ic]]
 
* [[equivalent URI::http://dblp.l3s.de/d2r/resource/authors/Denny_Vrandecic]]
 
* [[equivalent URI::http://korrekt.org/index.php/Special:URIResolver/Denny_Vrandecic]]
 
* [[equivalent URI::http://apassant.net/home/2007/12/flickrdf/people/68399509@N00]]
 
* [[equivalent URI::http://simia.net/foaf.rdf#denny]]
 
 
 
If you know of further URIs denoting me, please, tell me.
 
 
 
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Latest revision as of 09:46, 31 December 2020

2020 was a challenging year, particularly due to the pandemic. Some things were very different, some things were dangerous, and the pandemic exposed the fault lines in many societies in a most tragic way around the world.

Let's hope that 2021 will be better in that respect, that we will have learned from how the events unfolded.

But I'm also amazed by how fast the vaccine was developed and made available to tens of millions.

I think there's some chance that the summer of '21 will become one to sing about for a generation.

Happy New Year 2021!

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