**News: The program and schedule are now online**

Dear users, developers and all people interested in semantic wikis,

We are happy to announce SMWCon Fall 2017 - the 14th Semantic MediaWiki Conference:

    Dates: October 4th to October 6th 2017 (Wednesday to Friday).
    Location: Rotterdam Zoo (Blijdorp), Rotterdam, the Netherlands
    Conference page: https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2017
    Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in Semantic MediaWiki, e.g., users, developers, consultants, business representatives, researchers.

SMWCon Fall 2017 will be supported by ArchiXL B.V. [0], Wikibase Solutions [1], The Open University in the Netherlands [2] and Open Semantic Data Association e. V. [3].

Following the success of this format the SMWCon will have one tutorial and workshop day preceding two conference days.

Participating in the conference: To help us planning, you can already informally register on the conference page, although a formal registration will later be needed.

Contributing to the conference: If you want to present your work in the conference please go to the conference page 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.

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-humanities, 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 questions about sponsorship opportunities, please do not hesitate to contact Ad Strack van Schijndel <ad at wikibase.nl>.

Hope to see you in Rotterdam!

Remco de Boer, Toine Schijvenaars, Esther Greefhorst, Lloyd Rutledge, Erwin Oord, Ad Strack van Schijndel
(The Organizing Committee)

[0] http://www.archixl.nl/en/
[1] http://www.wikibase.nl/
[2] https://www.ou.nl/
[3] https://opensemanticdata.org/