SMWCon Spring 2014

SMWCon Spring 2014
The 9th conference brings together developers, users, and organizations from the Semantic MediaWiki community around the world.
Conference details
Location	Montréal, Canada
Start:	2014/05/21
Finish:	2014/05/23
Calendar:
General  Chair:	René Witte
Local Chair:	Bahar Sateli
Program Chair:	David Mason
Type:	SMWCon
Audience:	Everyone
Feed:	RSS feed, Atom feed
Address
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Montréal, Canada
Table of Contents

The Spring 2014 SMWCon will be held May 21-23 in Montréal, Canada. SMWCon is a twice-yearly event for users and developers of Semantic MediaWiki. You can read the conference announcement here.

Location

The Spring 2014 SMWCon will be held at Concordia University in Montréal. Montréal is the second-largest city in Canada and the metropolis of the province of Quebec. Rich in culture and history, Montréal has earned itself a reputation as one of the liveliest cities in North America for its festivals during summer time.

The conference is split in two parts:

• the tutorial day, where experts will teach various topics related to wikis: usage, applications, development, business models
• the conference days that gather talks from academia, business, government and non-profit representatives about applying semantic wikis to practice and the newest research in the field.

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

Ideas for the tutorials

We're now gathering ideas for the tutorials. If you're interested in a particular topic, please add it here.

• Adding Natural Language Processing Support to Your (Semantic)MediaWiki (René Witte, Bahar Sateli)
• A beginner's guide to using Semantic Mediawiki (User:David Mason)
• Interacting with Semantic Mediawiki using JavaScript and the API (User:David Mason)

Talks

You can add the name of your talk and the link to its description here.

• Wikidata and what it means for SMW (Keynote)

Proposed talks

Add what you'd like to see at the conference here

• Using SMW in healthcare settings

Topics for community discussions

The discussion is one of the most important part of the conference. Please add issues you want to discuss.

• Semantic Healthcare
• Science through Semantic Wikis
• Semantic Wiki Communities
• Open spaces session

Sponsors

• Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University is our Gold sponsor
• Concordia University, Montreal is our Platinum sponsor

Informal attendee list

This is a very preliminary list. If you are planning to attend, please add your name below.

1. René Witte
2. Bahar Sateli
3. James Montalvo
4. Peter J. Woudsma
5. Chris Koerner
6. David Mason
7. Guillaume Coulombe
8. Liliane Fallon
9. Jimmy St-Germain
10. Yves Otis
11. Emmanuel Décarie
12. Bernadette Clemente
13. Cindy Cicalese
14. Nancy Krautmann
15. Alain Désilets
16. Joel Sachs
17. Yolanda Gil
18. Isaac Farley
19. Andrew Geary
20. Louis-Philippe Durocher
21. Pierre Deschênes
22. Matt Hall
23. Markus Krötzsch

Venue Information

Please check out the Local Information page for more information on the venue, travel and accommodation options.