[euopendata] Semantic MediaWiki Conference Fall 2015: Call for Participation

Wed May 27 15:46:50 UTC 2015

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

We are happy to announce SMWCon Fall 2015 - the 12th Semantic MediaWiki 
Conference:

  * Dates: October 28th to October 30th 2015 (Wednesday to Friday)
  * Location: Fabra i Coats, Art Factory. Carrer Sant Adrià 20 (Sant 
Andreu), Barcelona.
  * Conference wikipage: 
https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2015
  * Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in 
Semantic MediaWiki, e.g., users, developers, consultants, business 
representatives, researchers.

SMWCon Fall 2015 will be supported by Institut de Cultura de Barcelona 
(http://lameva.barcelona.cat/barcelonacultura/en/), Amical Wikimedia 
(https://www.wikimedia.cat) and Open Semantic Data Association e. V. 
(https://opensemanticdata.org/).

Following the success of this format the SMWCon will have one tutorial 
day preceeding 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
  * 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 any other question and sponsorship opportunities, please do not 
hesitate to contact Toni Hermoso <toniher at cau.cat>

Hope to see you in Barcelona!

Lia Veja, Karsten Hoffmeyer
(Program Board)