[Semediawiki-user] Results of the first day of SMWCon

[Yury K. <kat...@gm...>]

Hi everyone!

You can now watch all the talks that were on the first day of SMWCon.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwtfwT1GnUQRaLki-YcF-_n8ndayi--W5

Here is a small summary for those who haven't been at the event.

  The day have begun with magnificent talk about Wikidata from its
project leader, Denny Vrandečić. In some sense Wikidata implements the
original vision of SMW and make the Wikipedia semantically annotated.

  We next had three sessions.

  First one was pretty technical and was dedicated mostly to
performance issues: after the traditional talk about the current state
of the project by Markus and Jeroen, Nischay told about the new
storage meschnism in SMW. Then Eloy describes how SMW is used in Wikia
and what benefits it gives to the wiki-owners and what problems it
sometimes caused.
  Second session was not about SMW but about the other wiki engines
that have similar functions. OntoWiki that separates the text and the
semantic annotations is used by AKSW laboratory for a lot of Linked
Data projects. BlueSpice, an extension bundle to make MediaWiki more
user-friendly and ready-to-use in the enterprises. KWARC tools that
allows to include machine-readable data to the mathematical content.
There are a lot of things SMW community can learn from these great
tools.
  Third session was dedicated to SMW applications in different
domains. We've seen how SMW helps people to support structured
discussion about the ontology objects (Cicero system). The other talk
was about using enhanced SMW for synchronizing the long-term
strategies of organizations to design the common future (Foresight
creation). Benedikt shows how to apply the platform for financial
analysis of a small organization. Finally Remco presented the case of
government application of SMW (Architectural Knowledge).

Ask questions here and on the talk's pages!
Cheers,
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Yury Katkov, WikiVote