The conference days of the SMWCon Fall 2017 will take place on Thursday, October 5th and on Friday, October 6th. See also the information on the 
Conference Day 1 – Thursday, October 5th
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9:00
30 min.
Registration desk in the 'Haaienzaal' (Shark room), located in the Oceanium-building in the Rotterdam Blijdorp Zoo. You should bring your printed SMWCon-ticket to the (Oceanium-side) entrance of the zoo.
Morning Session 1: Keynote
9:30
15 min.
9:45
KEYNOTE
Fire Services are very traditional organizations, their operations are based on years of experience and learning. Change comes at a slow pace and is hard sought. How do these organizations adapt to the information dense society we have created?
Join Bart van Leeuwen on his journey to help fire services better utilize their data, understand the challenges of information sharing in crisis situations and the struggle of accountability based on data.
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10:35
25 min.
This talk will provide an overview to what happened during the last year, the current status and the next steps for Semantic MediaWiki.
11:00
11:15
Morning Session 2
11:15
25 min.
11:40
25 min.
12:05
25 min.
We've started using SMW as a framework for product lines. One of the main challenges we've encountered is how to streamline in-wiki content synchronization between product instantiations.
12:30
13:30
Afternoon session 1
13:30
25 min.
This talk presents how Semantic MediaWiki is used to support a method for effective cooperation in local government.
13:55
25 min.
Indexing and describing the volume of the Public Services of greek Public Sector Organizations.
14:20
25 min.
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) opens a unique window of opportunity for SMW to be used to document records of processing activities in organizations.
14:45
15:00
Afternoon session 2
15:00
30 min.
15:30
30 min.
16:00
30 min.
Pre-print servers, post-publication commenting, crowd sourcing, machine learning, alongside semantic web and MediaWiki, open ways for modernizing the current publication culture.
16:30
End of the first Conference Day
18:00
Conference Day 2 – Friday, October 6th
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9:00
30 min.
Registration desk in the 'Haaienzaal' (Shark room), located in the Oceanium-building in the Rotterdam Blijdorp Zoo. You should bring your printed SMWCon-ticket to the (Oceanium-side) entrance of the zoo.
Morning Session 1
9:30
15 min.
9:45
KEYNOTE
SlideWiki: A collaborative platform for creating and sharing semantically annotated slide-decksfor developersfor beginners
SlideWiki (https://slidewiki.org) allows the collaborative construction, editing, sharing, semantic annotation and re-use of slide-decks. In this presentation I will discuss the main aims of SlideWiki and its main functionalities (the audience will be encouraged to experiment), with an emphasis on the semantic functionalities in the system.
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10:35
25 min.
News from the MediaWiki Platform Team
11:00
11:15
Morning Session 2
11:15
25 min.
Free MediaWiki distribution including Semantic, Visual Editor, Elasticsearch and many more powerful extensions.
11:40
25 min.
This talk offers some takeaways from a project that is being developed for a California-based internet entrepreneur
12:05
25 min.
We demonstrate how to fulfill the ISO9001:2015 requirements using SMW.
12:30
13:30
Afternoon session 1
13:30
25 min.
Using Semantic Mediawiki as a Content Management System
13:55
25 min.
14:20
25 min.
14:45
15:00
Afternoon session 2: Parallel Workshops
15:00
90 min.
This workshop presents and discusses Semantic MediaWiki as a tool and environment for research in Digital Social, Educational and Humanities Research.
15:00
90 min.
16:30
Closing
17:00
End of the second Conference Day
17:00
60 min.
