On 06/18/2013 01:20 PM, Yury Katkov wrote: > 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
If you are going to lead a session at SMWCon, you are eligible to apply for Wikimedia Foundation's Participation Support subsidies for travel <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Support>. Thanks for the heads-up, Yury. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-enterprise mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-enterprise
