[Semediawiki-user] SMWCon registration and call for contributions

[david m. <vid...@zo...>]

Semantic MediaWiki Conference (SMWCon) Spring 2014: 2nd call
for contributions

Dear semantic wiki users and developers,

Save the dates! SMWCon Spring 2014 will be held at Concordia University
this year in the vibrant and culturally-fascinating city of Montréal,
from May 21-23. We are inviting you to submit your contributions to
assemble the conference program. Registration is now open, with early
bird rates applicable until April 30th.

About SMWCon

This twice-yearly conference brings together researchers, users,
developers and enthusiasts of Semantic MediaWiki and related projects,
such as Wikidata. Semantic MediaWiki is a family of extensions to the
open-source wiki software MediaWiki (best known for powering Wikipedia)
that allow a wiki to store structured data in addition to textual
content, thereby, turning a wiki into a flexible, collaborative
knowledge repository.

Keynote Speaker and Invited Talks

Markus Krötzsch is our keynote speaker, with the provocative talk
"Wikidata and what it means for SMW."

We will have additional invited talks discussing advanced uses of
Semantic Forms, aspects of semantic wikis in healthcare and science
settings, as well as using SMW for Open Data.

Call for Contributions

Attendees, talks and tutorials are shaping up. Tutorials have been
proposed around setting up and supporting semantic wikis, bootstrapping
wikis with structures, ontologies and vocabularies, and using natural
language processing (NLP) systems with wikis.

As we are putting together themes and speakers of the upcoming
conference, we welcome new contributions from you on the applications
and development of semantic wikis (for a list of topics, see below). You
can propose your contributions on the conference website in form of
regular talks, posters or super-short lightning talks. All submitted
proposals will be reviewed and we will do our best to consider your
proposal in the conference program. If you've already announced your
talk it's now time to expand its description.

More tutorials (particularly around Semantic Mediawiki basics) and talks
are very welcome to cover the breadth of Semantic MediaWiki applications
and users. Please aim to submit your talk or tutorial proposal by May 7,
to allow us preparing a first version of the conference program. If you
need help setting up either, please contact the program chair at vid at
zooid.org

Please note that all tutorials and presentations will be video and audio
recorded and made available for others after the conference.

Important Facts

Submission Deadline: May 7 (please contact the program chair if you need
to submit later)
Event Dates: May 21st to 23rd 2014 (Wednesday to Friday)
Location: Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
Conference wiki page: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2014
Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in
Semantic MediaWiki, e.g. users, developers, consultants, business
representatives and researchers.

List of Topics

Here are some suggested starting points:

Specific applications

* Applications in science
* Applications in business
* Other applications such as culture and personal wikis
* Open data and government-supported repositories

Concepts and development

* Evolving semantic wikis into Linked Data platforms
* Text Mining and Natural Language Processing for Semantic Wikis
* Extending via PHP, Javascript and API-based extensions
* Widgets
* Interoperability and mashups
* Community building, feature wishlists and Semantic MediaWiki's roadmap
* Improving user experience
* Helping new and experienced users contribute
* Modelling complex domains
* Access control and security aspects
* Multi-lingual and cross-lingual sites

Organizing Committee

René Witte [General Chair]
David Mason [Program Chair]
Bahar Sateli [Local Chair]

Sponsors

Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University,
Montréal, Canada

Registration

Registration is now open at [1] with early bird pricing until April 30
for SMWCon May 21 - 23 in Montreal [2].

We hope to see you at SMWCon in Montreal!

1. http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/smwcon-spring-2014-registration-11160710987
2. https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2014

This announcement is also available at
https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2014/Second_call