Dear semantic wiki users and developers,
We are very happy to announce that early bird registration to the 8th Semantic MediaWiki Conference is now open!
Important facts reminder:
- Dates: October 28th to October 30th 2013 (Monday to Wednesday)
- Location: A&O Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Lehrter Str. 12, 10557 Berlin, Germany
- Conference wiki page: 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 and researchers.
We welcome new contributions from you:
- We encourage contributions about applications and development of semantic wikis; for a list of topics, see [1]
- Please propose regular talks, posters or super-short lightning talks on the conference website. We will provide feedback to you and do our best to consider your proposal in the conference program
- Tutorials and presentations will be video and audio recorded and made available for others after the conference.
- If you've already announced your talk it's now time to expand its description
News on participation, tutorials and keynote
- You can now officially register for the conference [2] and benefit from early bird fees until September 14, 2013
- The tutorial program has been announced and available [3]. This year we have two tutorial tracks:
- The beginner's tutorials are focused on business applications of semantic wikis
- The developer's tutorials will help you to become Semantic MediaWiki programmer: contributing to core and and writing extensions for your specific needs
- Professor Yolanda Gil from the University of Southern California [4] will give a keynote on scientific data curation
Organizers and sponsors
- Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. [5] has become the official organiser of SMWCon Fall 2013
- Thanks to our sponsors WikiVote [6] (platinum) and ArchiXL [7] (gold) fees for this SMWCon remain low
If you have questions you can contact Yury Katkov (Program Chair), Benedikt Kämpgen (General Chair) or Karsten Hoffmeyer (Local Chair) per e-mail (Cc).
We will be happy to see you in Berlin!
Yury Katkov, Program Chair
[1] <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2013/Announcement>
[2] <http://de.amiando.com/PVADAOV.html>
[3] <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2013#Program>
[4] <http://www.isi.edu/~gil/>
[5] <https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Hauptseite>
[6] <http://wikivote.ru/>
[7] <http://www.archixl.nl/>
