Dear Participant of the SemWiki2006 (http://semwiki.org) workshop,
(all other readers may safely ignore this email) there are a number of points to know before coming to the workshop: 1) Timing --------- We decided to have "Lightning Panels", each 20 minutes long. One panel will have 3 presentations, each only 5 minutes, no questions. Then we will have a joint short discussion. Btw: In some conferences, they have 40 second slots. We give you 7 times more than that. The exact agenda is online here: http://wiki.ontoworld.org/index.php/SemWiki2006_Agenda Please prepare good slides. You can safely assume all attendees are familiar with wikis and semantic wikis. Explain what makes your idea special, why it is needed. Please give us your presentations by USB stick or email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) before the workshop starts or in the coffee break. 2) Poster Session ----------------- *Everybody* is invited to present posters. We will manage to get enough poster stands, hopefully. Accepted papers presented as posters get the best spots. 3) Interactive Session ---------------------- In this session we will have the most fun and get everybody to work. The goal is to create a "Semantic Wiki Meta-Model" (SWIMM). Each Semantic Wiki has a certain way of modeling data and metadata (aka semantic data, annotations or just RDF). The mix of data and metadata differs between wikis. We found a number of Wiki-Models: - Pages are tagged - Pages have statements, where the page is always the subject - Pages are a container for an arbitrary chunk of RDF data - Parts of pages are annotated with RDF (the RDFa model) - The whole wiki has metadata attached - ... Se we can distinguish - granularity of annotated artefact - kind of metadata (tags, triples, ...) - restrictions (only about the page, only according to an ontology, - semantic language used (RDF, RDFS, OWL, ...) - ... We have to find a common picture/language/model to describe the different approaches, in order to make progress in our field of science. Let's call this model, that describes then all the 'SWIMM', Semantic Wiki Meta-Model. We expect every workshop participant to actually work. Work will be performed in small teams, other topics are possible and will be organized on-demand at the workshop. 4) Self-tagging (optional) ------------------------- On your ESWC2006 name tag, please write in big, readable letters one or two keywords on which you would like to be asked about in the coffee breaks. It really works and makes contact with other people easier and more focused. See you in Montenegro, Max Völkel and Sebastian Schaffert _______________________________________________ swikig mailing list swikig@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/mailman/listinfo/swikig