Dear users, developers and all people interested in semantic
wikis,
We are happy to announce SMWCon Fall 2015 - the 12th Semantic
MediaWiki Conference:
- Dates: October 28th to October 30th 2015 (Wednesday to
Friday)
- Location: Fabra i Coats, Art Factory. Carrer Sant Adrià 20
(Sant Andreu), Barcelona.
- Conference wikipage: https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2015
- Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis,
especially in Semantic MediaWiki, e.g., users, developers,
consultants, business representatives, researchers.
SMWCon Fall 2015 will be supported by Institut de Cultura de
Barcelona (http://lameva.barcelona.cat/barcelonacultura/en/),
Amical Wikimedia (https://www.wikimedia.cat)
and Open Semantic Data Association e. V. (https://opensemanticdata.org/).
Following the success of this format the SMWCon will have one
tutorial day preceeding two conference days.
Participating in the conference: To help us planning, you can
already informally register on the wikipage, although a firm
registration will later be needed.
Contributing to the conference: If you want to present your work
in the conference please go to the conference wikipage and add
your talk there. To create an attractive program for the
conference, we will later ask you to give further information
about your proposals. Tutorials and presentations will be video
and audio recorded and will be made available for others after the
conference.
Among others, we encourage contributions on the following topics:
Applications of semantic wikis:
- Semantic wikis for enterprise workflows and business
intelligence
- Semantic wikis for corporate or personal knowledge management
- Exchange on business models with semantic wikis
- Lessons learned (best/worst practices) from using semantic
wikis or their extensions
- Semantic wikis in e-science, e-learning, e-health,
e-government
- Semantic wikis for finding a common vocabulary among a group
of people
- Semantic wikis for teaching students about the Semantic Web
- Offering incentives for users of semantic wikis
- Challenges and obstacles for Semantic Wikis in business
environments
Development of semantic wikis:
- Semantic wikis as knowledge base backends / data integration
platforms
- Comparisons of semantic wiki concepts and technologies
- Community building, feature wishlists, roadmapping of
Semantic MediaWiki
- Improving user experience in a semantic wiki
- Speeding up semantic wikis
- Integrations and interoperability of semantic wikis with
other applications and mashups
- Modeling of complex domains in semantic wikis, using rules,
formulas etc.
- Access control and security aspects in semantic wikis
- Multilingual semantic wikis
For any other question and sponsorship opportunities, please do
not hesitate to contact Toni Hermoso <toniher at cau.cat>
Hope to see you in Barcelona!
Lia Veja, Karsten Hoffmeyer
(Program Board)