SMWCon Fall 2013

SMWCon Fall 2013
The 8th conference on Semantic MediaWiki (SMWCon) brings together developers, users, and organizations from the semantic wiki community around the world.
Conference details
Location	Berlin, Germany
Start:	October 28, 2013
Finish:	October 30, 2013
Calendar:	Event schedule
General  Chair:	Benedikt Kämpgen
Local Chair:	Karsten Hoffmeyer
Program Chair:	Yury Katkov
Type:	SMWCon
Audience:	Everyone
Feed:	RSS feed, Atom feed
Address
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The 8th SMWCon Fall 2013 will take place in Berlin, Germany from October 28th to 30th 2013 (Monday - Wednesday). Semantic MediaWiki conference bringing together users, developers and all other people interested in semantic wikis.

SMWCon Fall 2013 is organised by Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. with the help of Open Semantic Data Association e. V..

For more information about the conference series, see SMWCon. For general discussions or questions about this conference please use the discussion page or user mailing list.

The hashtag on Twitter is #SMWCon.

Registration

You can now officially register to the conference via Amiando. Supplemental information is available on the registration overview page.

Location

SMWCon Fall 2013 will be held at A&O Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Lehrter Str. 12, 10557 Berlin, Germany. It is just a 5 to 10 minutes walk away from Berlin Central Station and may easily be reached by public and private transport. Though easily accessible in the centre of Berlin, the venue is in a quiet side street. See this page for information about Berlin as such.

Program

Tutorial day - October 28

In the Tutorial Day our experts will teach various topics related to semantic wikis: usage, applications, business models etc. We also have special developer track.

Conference days - October 29-30

The Conference Days gather people from business, academia, government and non-profit organizations giving talks about applying semantic wikis and about newest developments in the field.

Keynote

Organic Data Science: Opening Scientific Data Curation - Dr. Yolanda Gil, Director of Knowledge Technologies and Associate Division Director at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California, and Research Professor in the Computer Science Department.

Regular talks

These talks have not yet been accepted! The review process will start soon.

If you want to give a talk, present a demo or poster, please add it to the list. To help us creating an interesting program, please describe your talk using Template:Talk and free text, as also described at requirements for talks.

• Current status and next steps for SMW - Jeroen De Dauw
• Developing professional standards with SMW - Yury Katkov, chief developer in WikiVote!
• Semantic Business Process Management - BPM meets SMW - Alexander Gesinn, Managing Director & Partner gesinn.it GmbH & Co. KG
• SMW in the Public Sector - lessons learned and future requirements - Bernhard Krabina, SMW consultant at KDZ - Centre for Public Administration Research
• The User's Perspective: Customer and Contact Management with Semantic MediaWiki - Michael Scherm, Founder Stragenion Network
• SMW in Technical Documentation - Mark Schubert & Jonas Wäckerle, Technical Writers at parson communication
• Lightweight data browsing with Miga - Yaron Koren, WikiWorks
• NYCpedia - from raw open data to actionable open knowledge using SMW - Joel Natividad
• Semantic Forms: What's new, what's still missing - Yaron Koren and Himeshi De Silva
• BlueForge Feature Matrix: SMW vs. WikiData - An experience report - Hallo Welt! - Medienwerkstatt GmbH
• Breaking News Detection with Wikidata and Wikipedia - Thomas Steiner
• Improving dependency managment and easing upgrades - Mark A. Hershberger
• An Analysis of Semantic Wiki Communities: Why Are They Embracing Properties and Not Concepts? - Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California
• Semantic Time Traveling: Tagging and Branching Knowledge with SMW (a vision) - Remco de Boer
• SmartCore™ – Managing SMW content structure for dummies - Erwin Oord
• State of Wikidata - Lydia Pintscher
• DBpedia Mappings wiki - Anja Jentzsch
• Semantic MediaWiki and Neuroscience Data - A Blue Brain Perspectiv - Martin Telefont

Posters and demos

• add more

Proposed lightning talks

Super short talks. If you feel that your message can be delivered within 1-4 minutes - add it here

• Google Refine + Pywikipediabot + SMW - cleaning, importing and representing data! - Yury Katkov, WikiVote!
• The Wiki of the Month feature - Yaron Koren
• Bringing Wikidata to mobile devices - Pragun Bhutani
• Simple SMW annotation with LightWeightRDFa - Norman Heino
• add more

Topic wishlist for community discussions

The discussion is one of the most important part of the conference. Please add which issues do you want to have discussed.

• sponsoring/funding development
• What can be done to make contributing to the project easier for you?
• add more

Informal attendee list

Add yourself to the list if you want to be at the conference. You should also officially register, but this list is helpful anyway.

1. Yury Katkov, WikiVote!
2. Alexander Gesinn, gesinn.it
3. Karsten Hoffmeyer, WikiHoster.net
4. Benedikt Kämpgen - KIT
5. Marco Neumann - KONA (Would love to attend if schedule & travel allow me to do so)
6. Jeroen De Dauw, the internet
7. PSL GbR (one person), wiki-service.biz
8. Bernhard Krabina, KDZ - Centre for Pubic Administration Research
9. Robert Heine, energypedia.info
10. Simon Bachenberg, GESIS
11. Franz Borrmann, iUS
12. Toine Schijvenaars, ArchiXL / XL&Knowledge
13. Yaron Koren, WikiWorks
14. Jonas Wäckerle, parson communication
15. Mark Schubert, parson communication
16. Dennis Göhlert, Referata (if possible)
17. Toni Hermoso
18. Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, fbk.eu
19. Martin G, FU Berlin
20. Nicolas NALLET, Sémantiki.fr
21. Erwin Oord, ArchiXL / XL&Knowledge
22. Remco de Boer, ArchiXL / XL&Knowledge
23. Youri van den Bogert, ArchiXL /XL&Knowledge
24. Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California
25. Alexey Klimovich , WikiVote!
26. Markus Krötzsch, University of Oxford
27. Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata
28. Robert Vogel, Hallo Welt! Medienwerkstatt GmbH
29. Pragun Bhutani, GSoC 2013, Wikimedia Foundation. (if travel is approved)
30. Joel Natividad, Ontodia (will join remotely, hope the event will be livestreamed)
31. Claudia Müller-Birn, Freie Universität Berlin
32. Anja Ebersbach, Hallo Welt! - Medienwerkstatt GmbH
33. Thomas Steiner, Google Germany GmbH
34. Martin Telefont, BlueBrainProject
35. Yury Kupriyanov, WikiVote!
36. Dennis Zielke, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
37. Antti Kanner, University of Helsinki
38. Robert Ulrich, student at KIT
39. Ad Strack van Schijndel, Wikibase Solutions
40. Mark A. Hershberger
41. Benjamin Rebenich, energypedia
42. Simon Faatz, student at KIT
43. Stefan Zander, Research Scientist at FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik
44. Jan Willem Noteboom, KNMI Netherlands
45. Himeshi De Silva, Google Summer of Code 2013 student, Wikimedia Foundation
46. Samuel Lampa, Uppsala University
47. Karsten Borgmann, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam
48. Felipe de Jong, GOSS Contiweb BV Boxmeer
49. This could be you. :)

Accommodation

You can book rooms directly at our venue A&O Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Lehrter Str. 12, 10557 Berlin, Germany (Info and overview). See here a list of places to stay nearby.

Travel costs funding

If you are an active member of the Wikimedia community and will give a tutorial or regular talk at SMWCon we recommend you to apply for the WMF grant covering the travelling and accommodation.

More information and useful things

• Initial Announcement of SMWCon Fall 2013
• Call for Tutorials of SMWCon Fall 2013
• Call for Contributions of SMWCon Fall 2013
• pin this poster (DIN-A 3) (svg version) in the nearest university or in the billboard of your company so that we have more interesting people coming!

Sponsors

PLATINUM

WikiVote, crowdsourcing and knowledge management company. Works on enterprise knowledge management, strategic foresight and collaborative document creation.

GOLD

an ArchiXL company knowledge management en semantic wiki's

SILVER

Hallo Welt! - German technological company that develops BlueSpice for MediaWiki, a platform for enterprise knowledge management.

SILVER

Energypedia is a wiki on renewable energy technologies, approaches and projects as well as energy efficiency.

If you want to sponsor the event, please have a look at our sponsorship proposal.

Contact Yury Katkov or Benedikt Kämpgen if you want to sponsor the event.