[SMW-devel] SMWCon Fall 2017 CFP news: location and hotel information

[Rutledge, L. <Llo...@ou...>]

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

We are happy to announce SMWCon Fall 2017 - the 14th Semantic MediaWiki 
Conference:

     Dates: October 4th to October 6th 2017 (Wednesday to Friday).
     Location: Rotterdam Zoo (Blijdorp), Rotterdam, the Netherlands
     Conference page: 
https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2017
     Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in 
Semantic MediaWiki, e.g., users, developers, consultants, business 
representatives, researchers.

SMWCon Fall 2017 will be supported by ArchiXL B.V. [0], Wikibase 
Solutions [1], The Open University in the Netherlands [2] and Open 
Semantic Data Association e. V. [3].

Following the success of this format the SMWCon will have one tutorial 
and workshop day preceding two conference days.

Participating in the conference: To help us planning, you can already 
informally register on the conference page, although a formal 
registration will later be needed.

Contributing to the conference: If you want to present your work in the 
conference please go to the conference page 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.

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-humanities, 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 questions about sponsorship opportunities, please do not hesitate to 
contact Ad Strack van Schijndel <ad at wikibase.nl>.

Hope to see you in Rotterdam!

Remco de Boer, Toine Schijvenaars, Esther Greefhorst, Lloyd Rutledge, 
Erwin Oord, Ad Strack van Schijndel
(The Organizing Committee)

[0] http://www.archixl.nl/en/
[1] http://www.wikibase.nl/
[2] https://www.ou.nl/
[3] https://opensemanticdata.org/