Dear users, developers and all people interested in semantic wikis,
We are happy to announce SMWCon Fall 2013 - the 8th Semantic MediaWiki
Conference:
* Dates: October 28th to October 30th 2013 (Monday to Wednesday)
* Location: A&O Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Lehrter Str. 12, 10557 Berlin, Germany
* Conference wikipage: https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2013
* Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in
Semantic MediaWiki, e.g., users, developers, consultants, business
representatives, researchers.
SMWCon Fall 2013 will be supported by the Open Semantic Data
Association e. V. [1]. Our platinum sponsor will be WikiVote ltd,
Russia [2].
Following the success of recent SMWCons, we will have one tutorial day
and 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
===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
If you have questions you can contact me (Yury Katkov, Program Chair),
Benedikt Kämpgen (General Chair) or Karsten Hoffmeyer (Local Chair)
per e-mail (Cc).
Hope to see you in Berlin
Yury Katkov, Program Chair
[1] http://www.opensemanticdata.org/
[2] http://wikivote.ru
Hi.
In Wikimedia Slovakia we are preparing Wikimedia Central and East Europe
Meeting, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2013
[1]
There is interest about Wikidata and I would like to invite Wikidata
representative to have speak there. Unfortunately, core WD team can not
attend so I would like to invite a community member. We prefer a member
from CEE region; travel costs will be reimbursed.
The main goal of the meeting is to fortify interstate and international
collaboration between various Wikimedia chapters, thematic
organisations, user groups and other communities in Central and East
Europe and its regions so it would be great if speak about Wikidata
could be in line with this topic. Of course, it is good but not
compulsory ;)
Please contact me if you feel qualified for such speak / seminar.
Thanks in advance for your respond!
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Michal Matúšov
[[:w:sk:Redaktor:KuboF]]
Wikimedia Slovenská republika
Dom služieb ALFA
Februárová 1478/2
958 01 Partizánske
predseda / president
Web: http://wikimedia.sk [2]
Facebook: www.facebook.com/WikimediaSK [3]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WikimediaSK [4]
Links:
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[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2013
[2] http://wikimedia.sk
[3] http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaSK
[4] https://twitter.com/WikimediaSK
Dear Wikidatanions (*),
I have just drafted a little proposal for creating more tools for
external people to work with Wikidata, especially to build services on
top of its data [1]. Your feedback and support is needed.
Idea: Currently, this is quite hard for people, since we only have WDA
for reading/analysing dumps [2] and Wikidata Query as a single web
service to ask queries [3]. We should have more support for programmers
who want to load, query, analyse, and otherwise use the data. The
proposal is to start such a toolkit to enable more work with the data.
The plan is to kickstart this project with a small team using
Wikimedia's Individual Engagement program. For this we will need your
support -- feel free to add your voice to the wiki page [1]. Of course,
comments of all sorts are also great -- this email thread will be linked
from the page. If you would like to be involved with the project, that's
great too; let me know and I can add you to the proposal.
The proposal will already be submitted tomorrow, but support should also
be possible after that, I hope.
Cheers,
Markus
(*) Do we have a demonym yet? Wikipedian sounds natural, Wikidatan less
so. Maybe this should be another thread ... ;-)
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikidata_Toolkit
[2] http://github.com/mkroetzsch/wda
[3] http://208.80.153.172/wdq/
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Markus Kroetzsch, Departmental Lecturer
Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Room 306, Parks Road, OX1 3QD Oxford, United Kingdom
+44 (0)1865 283529 http://korrekt.org/
It seems like some GLAM institutions are starting to use URLs to
Wikipedia articles as common identifiers for classes of items in
collections. I guess this will change over time to be URLs to
Wikidata instead. This is pretty much as expected, but it is although
a bit strange that they are using Wikipedia and that no-one seems to
have noticed this from our side.
Is there anyone that know how common this is? Så far I have only heard
about a few of them, and I'm not even sure they have any clear
understanding why they do it..
John / jeblad
I know of a couple of Swedish museums/institutions which do it. Either
manually or bed on which pages/images contains links pointing back to
specific items in their collections. Essentially they use it as a "you
might also be interested in" suggestion.
Also know that a few of their authority files includes wikipedia links as
"same_as" properties.
/André
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André Costa
GLAM-tekniker
Wikimedia Sverige
Den 27 sep 2013 08:43 skrev "John Erling Blad" <jeblad(a)gmail.com>:
It seems like some GLAM institutions are starting to use URLs to
Wikipedia articles as common identifiers for classes of items in
collections. I guess this will change over time to be URLs to
Wikidata instead. This is pretty much as expected, but it is although
a bit strange that they are using Wikipedia and that no-one seems to
have noticed this from our side.
Is there anyone that know how common this is? Så far I have only heard
about a few of them, and I'm not even sure they have any clear
understanding why they do it..
John / jeblad
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Heya folks,
Today has been a sad day in the Wikimedia office in Berlin because it
was Denny's last day here and there were a lot of good-byes and even
more thank-yous to say. For some closing remarks by him and other
interesting things that happened this week around Wikidata please
check https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_09_27
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Community Communications for Technical Projects
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Obentrautstr. 72
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.