SMWCon Fall 2020
From semantic-mediawiki.org
Discover the future of knowledge sharing
at the 17th Semantic MediaWiki Conference
24.11. – 26.11.2020
Twitter is #SMWCon
The SemanticMediaWiki conference is the yearly event for
professional wiki users, maintainers, developers, consultants, researchers,
responsible persons from business and administration.
Virtual conference[edit]
Due to the corona pandemic, this conference will take place virtually this year.
You can participate through these channels:
- Hopin: Click here to join the talks and the rooms
- YouTube: Recording of sessions (available after the conference)
- Element: Chat outside the sessions or for hackathons
- Etherpad: Coordinate hackathons and informal sessions here
And at Spreadshirt you get shirts, hoodies, mugs and bags!
Schedule[edit]
Please note: The times given here are in Central European Time (CET | UTC+1).
Conference Day 1 - Tuesday, November 24
ENTERPRISE & GOVERNMENT DAY
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10:00
90 min.
This tutorial will be an introduction to using Semantic MediaWiki, I will talk about how we use Semantic MediaWiki for our projects at Wikibase Solutions, and will give some examples and a hands-on tutorial on how to use Semantic MediaWiki for your own projects.
11:30
20 min.
In this tutorial we will show to what extent BlueSpice MediaWiki uses semantic
13:30
20 min.
In addition to notes on the organization of the three conference days, there is a short input on the conference topic and the program
13:45
20 min.
SMW powers a knowledge platform for the topic of knowledge management in the public sector
14:15
20 min.
This is to give an overview on how the UK's Ministry of Defence use Semantic MediaWiki
15:15
20 min.
This talk shows how an ISMS according to ISO/IEC 27001 or BSI IT-Grundschutz can be implemented with Semantic MediaWiki.
16:00
30 min.
Make the case for a MediaWiki based open source content services platform. We know what MediaWiki and open source is. I will explain more about a content services platform, what it may provide and why companies around the world might want one.
16:30
60 min.
Fifteen years ago, Semantic Wikipedia was first proposed. This was the starting point for the development of both Semantic MediaWiki and Wikidata. This year, the Wikimedia Foundation is starting a new project, Abstract Wikipedia.
The overarching goal of all these projects is to make knowledge more accessible and easier to work with - to allow more people to share in more knowledge in more languages.
17:30
60 min.
The open source alternative between Confluence, Sharepoint and other enterprise content solutions
Conference Day 2 - Wednesday, November 25
SEMANTIC & DEVELOPER COMMUNITY DAY
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13:30
20 min.
An overview of what happened in Semantic MediaWiki land during the last year, including the 3.2 release.
15:00
20 min.
An overview of what's new around Wikibase and the plans we have for the Wikibase Ecosystem.
15:30
20 min.
Success story in using SMW in concert with WikiBase to achieve a data-based, semantic-enabled MediaWiki site
16:15
20 min.
In this talk we like to present an overview of the process and challenges of automating an RDF ontology import into SemanticMediawiki with ontology2smw, in the context of the confIDent project and how Academic Event Ontology (AEON) is being developed to support the requirements of Semantic Mediawiki.
16:45
15 min.
Live demo of Semantic Wikibase, a new extension that allows using Wikibase data directly in your semantic wiki
18:00
25 min.
wikipush,wikiedit,wikiupload,wikinuke,wikiuser a set of tools for automating SMW page content handling using python and a command line
19:30
25 min.
Conference Day 3 - Thursday, November 26
RESEARCH & EDUCATION DAY
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11:00
30 min.
How to use external vocabularies (e. g. FOAF) and reference to external idenifiers (e. g. Wikidata ID) with SMW.
11:30
20 min.
The most important concepts and where you can learn everything
13:30
10 min.
Corpus2Wiki is a tool for generating so-called Wikiditions out of text corpora. It provides text analyses, annotations and their visualizations without requiring programming or advanced computer skills.
14:00
20 min.
A database on availability of data and code for empirical studies in the social sciences, and of replications
14:30
20 min.
After seven years of running the Vienna History Wiki, we will share insights into the way Semantic MediaWiki has influenced the work on Vienna's historical facts.
15:00
20 min.
The goal of The Embassy of Good Science is to promote research integrity among all those involved in research. The platform is open to anyone willing to learn or support others in fostering understanding and awareness around Good Science.
15:30
20 min.
Presentation of a Semantic MediaWiki use case to manage, visualize and analyze data about African cultural heritage located in the Canary Islands.
16:15
60 min.
In a panel discussion we will highlight the state of the art about knowledge graph research and talk about the role of SMW.
Registration and participants[edit]
Please register for free at Hopin
You will be able to join the online meetings as you like.
To let others know that you will be attending, you can add your name below:
- Bernhard Krabina
- Richard Heigl
- Alexander Gesinn (gesinn.it GmbH & Co. KG)
- Sebastian Schmid (gesinn.it GmbH & Co. KG)
- Gary Foster (talk)
- Yaron Koren
- Lia Veja (DIPF)
- Jeroen De Dauw, SMW maintainer (Professional.Wiki)
- Karsten Hoffmeyer, SMW maintainer (Professional.Wiki)
- Bryan Hilderbrand
- Paul Meredith
- Julian Hocker (DIPF)
- Jan H. Höffler (ReplicationWiki)
- Rob P
- Vivian Epiney (Le Dico des Ados)
- Tom Fellows
- Julien Tremblay McLellan
- Ton van der Zwet
- Renato Ongania
- Georgios Mavropalias
- Greg Rundlett (QualityBox)
- Lex Sulzer
- Wolfgang Fahl
- Luca Mauri
- Dave Richardson (dj radon)
- Cindy Cicalese
- Markus Glaser
- André Castro
- Christoph Sonnlechner
- Christian Michlits
- Iván Hernández-Cazorla (Coruja Digital)
- Anja Ebersbach (talk)
- Charlot Cobben, (Wikibase Solutions)
- Andre Maas (Datawiki South Africa)
- Martin Gruner
- Guillaume Coulombe
- Olivier Beaulieu
- Yuning Sun
- Joris Dirks
- Jan Willem van Veen
- Wouter Rademaker
- Toni Hermoso Pulido
- Thilo Schroth
- Toine Schijvenaars
- Jeff Scott
- Ike Hecht (WikiTeq)
- Viktor Schelling (Wikibase Solutions)
- Eric-Jan van Kakerken (Wikibase Solutions)
- Barry McGrath
- Marijn van Wezel (Wikibase Solutions)
- Paul Illingworth (Rowe IT)
- Anton Köstlbacher
- Ingo Frank
- Daniel Riedmüller
- Nicolas Nallet
- Tobias Maus (Contargo)
- Teresa Schwarz (Contargo)
- Tobias Oetterer (Professional.Wiki)
- María Rosa Gamarra Cespedes (BetterKnowledge4all)
- Delia Pitto
- Stephan Gambke
- Tomasz Rakowski
- Robis (Wikibase Solutions)
- Chris Karageorgiou Kaneen (GRNET)
- Iraklis Varlamis (GRNET)
- Robert Vogel
- Laurent Mischler
- Duncan Crane
- Dennis Groenewegen (Wikibase Solutions)
- Peter Meyer (Wikimedia DC)
- Ad Strack van Schijndel (Wikibase Solutions)
- Charlie Pfaff (SKIM Group)
- Erwin Oord (ArchiXL)
- Jared Olson
- Ahmad Gharbeia
- Denny Vrandečić (Wikimedia Foundation)
Sponsors[edit]
dataspects
dataspects is about finding and learning knowledge
WikiPoesia
WikiPoesia is an encyclopedia of poetry awards
Please contact us at smwcon regarding sponsoring of the conference.
mwstake.org
Organization[edit]
KDZ - Centre for Public Administration Research
Knowledge Management in Public Administration
BlueSpice MediaWiki
Knowledge Management for companies and organizations
Team[edit]
- General chair: Bernhard Krabina
- Program chair: Richard Heigl
- Communication: Eva Vogel
