Heiya, forwarding as this may be of interest for you too. Cheers Karsten

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Semediawiki-user] Announcing SMWCon Fall 2017 Datum: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:53:16 +0200 Von: Rutledge, Lloyd Lloyd.Rutledge@ou.nl An: Semediawiki-user@lists.sourceforge.net

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, 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 (The Organizing Committee)

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

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