SMWCon Spring 2013

SMWCon Spring 2013
SMWCon brings together developers, users, and organizations from the Semantic MediaWiki community around the world.
Conference details
Start:	2013/03/20
Finish:	2013/03/22
Calendar:	Event schedule
General Chair:	Joel Natividad
Local Chair:	Yaron Koren
Program Chair:	Laurent Alquier
Feed:	RSS feed, Atom feed
Wikidata-ID:	Q42407112
DOI:	not yet provided
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The Spring 2013 SMWCon was held March 20-22 in New York City. SMWCon is a twice-yearly event for users and developers of Semantic MediaWiki.

Location

The Spring 2013 SMWCon was held at the ITP, or the Interactive Telecommunications Program, a department of New York University, in New York City, in the United States. ITP is located at 721 Broadway, between Washington Pl. and Waverly Pl., in New York's Greenwich Village neighborhood.

ITP is a graduate program focused on a multi-disciplinary approach to communication technology; they describe themselves as "a center for the recently possible."

Program

Tutorial Day - Wed, March 20
8 AM	Doors open
9 AM	Morning Session 1
	Official Welcome, Joel Natividad, Ontodia MediaWiki, the Semantic Web, and Semantic MediaWiki - Yaron Koren
10:30 AM	Coffee break
11 AM	Morning Session 2
	The extensions of the Semantic Bundle - Yaron Koren
12:30 PM	Lunch
2 PM	Afternoon Session 1
	Hands-on session: Live building of a Semantic MediaWIki: data structure, forms, templates using NYC Open Data
3:30 PM	Coffee break
4 PM	Afternoon Session 2
	Hands-on session: Live customization of a Semantic MediaWiki: CSS, jQuery, Result formats.
5:30 PM	End of Tutorial Day
6:30 PM	Joint Dinner - Arturo's, 106 West Houston St.

Conference Day 1 – Thu, March 21
8:30 AM	Doors open
9 AM	Morning Session 1
	Opening Introduction - Clay Shirky Keynote: "Wikidata and SMW", differences, overlap, interplay, future - Denny Vrandečić and Jeroen De Dauw (Remote talk + local Q&A).
10:30 AM	Coffee break
11 AM	Morning Session 2: State of Semantic MediaWiki
	Current status and next steps for SMW - Jeroen De Dauw (30 mins) SMW for Fun and Profit, Thoughts on the MediaWiki and SMW consulting business. - Yaron Koren (30 mins) SMW+ Extensions Roadmap , A tour of how best to preserve & reuse each of the SMW extensions created by (now-defunct) Ontoprise under Project Halo. John McClure (25 mins - Remote talk)
12:30 PM	Lunch
2 PM	Afternoon Session 1: Interactivity
	New features in Maps and Semantic Maps - Jeroen De Dauw (30min) Beyond points - How to turn SMW into a complete Geographic Information System- Pierre Racine (25 mins) Making Complex Data Interactive with SMW, Demo of OpenEI, the 56,000+ page semantic wiki sponsored by the US Department of Energy, focused on a recent endeavor to store geothermal energy data within the SMW structure. Jay Huggins (25 mins)
3:30 PM	Coffee break
4 PM	Afternoon Session 2: Applied Semantic MediaWiki
	Modeling an Enterprise Architecture with SMW, My colleagues and I at Cogeco Cable, Montreal, Canada, have been using SMW to model our application, data and business process architectures and mapping them to a telecom industry reference architecture called Frameworx. Doug Beeson (25 mins) ArchE: An SMW-based Architecture Repository, Discussion & demo of ArchE, our enterprise infrastructure architecture repository used to track relationships between architecture definitions, patterns, and building blocks. Larry Claman (25 mins) A development and operations (DevOps) system using SMW for configuration and visualization. David H. Mason, Bill Doran (25 mins)
5:30 PM	End of Conference Day
6:30 PM	Conference Dinner - Back Forty, 190 Avenue B (dinner is free for all paying attendees, and $50 otherwise)

Conference Day 2 – Fri, March 22
8 AM	Doors open
9 AM	Morning session 1: Humanize data with SMW
	SMW and NYC - organizing the City's Open Data, Demo of nyc.pediacities.com, the high-resolution semantic wiki of NYC. Joel Natividad, Ontodia (25 mins) Using SMW in University Courses, about upper-level undergrad philosophy courses using SMW to provide students with collaboration opportunities, resources, self-directed learning. Demo of the site & coursework (available soon, clearing ethics board review...) Kirk Mc Dermid (25 mins)
10 AM	Coffee break
10:30 AM	Morning Session 2: Advanced SMW
	MediaWiki API: Get the data while it's still fresh. Yuri Astrakhan (25 mins) Automating SMW install and data loading. Mike Cariaso (25 mins) Case Study: Upgrading SMW, A look at OpenEI's migration from SMW 1.5 to 1.8, applied to over 56k pages. Jay Huggins (25 mins) Semantic Result Formats, what's new and upcoming. Jeroen De Dauw ( ~25 minutes)
12:30 PM	Lunch
2 PM	Afternoon Session 1: The future of SMW
	"Data is data" and the future of data browsing, Toward a unified theory of data browsing, and what it means for SMW's browsing functionality, including Semantic Drilldown and others. Yaron Koren (40 mins) Smarter Wikis through Integrated Natural Language Processing Assistants, Presenting the Semantic Assistants Wiki-NLP integration architecture for automatically deriving SMW metadata from wiki contents through Natural Language Processing (NLP) and its application in the IntelliGenWiki for genomics research as well as the ReqWiki system for Software Requirements Engineering. Bahar Sateli (40 mins) Lightning talks (30min)
3:50 PM	Coffee break
4:20 PM	Afternoon Session 2
	Closing talk - Reflections on SMW+, Mark Greaves (30 mins - Remote talk) Community Discussion Closing, including announcement of next SMWCon venue
5:30 PM	End of Conference
6:30 PM	Post-Conference Dinner - Café Asean, 117 West 10th St.

Lightning talks

If you want to give a lightning talk (5 minutes), add your name and the title of your talk here:

• We Want You (to Be Wiki of the Month) Yaron Koren (talk)
• The SMW users survey --Yaron Koren
• Three wishes Laurent Alquier
• SMW Metaproperties - An alternative to Page Schema and XML to facilitate form management (Pierre Racine)
• A provocative proposition - Rethinking SMW for Dummies (Pierre Racine)
• Quick tour of Semantic MediaWiki at MITRE - Cynthia Cicalese
• You're doing it wrong - Mike Cariao

• Some pointers for (Semantic) MediaWiki development --Jeroen De Dauw (talk) 21:07, 21 March 2013 (CET)

Talk proposals

Since the program is finalized in the previous section, we are not looking for new talks at this time. If you want to give a talk, you can still sign up and add your name, the title of your talk and a short description to the Lightning Talk section.

Wish-list for Topics

If there is anything you would like to see or hear about during the conference, add it to this list:

• The SMW roadmap
• The documentation and promotion of SMW
• Triple stores
• Design and implementation of SMW Javascript including libraries and API
  • Maybe a useful start? https://raw.github.com/cariaso/smwcon2012bots/master/lang/javascript/bot1.html
• noSQLStore4? - using MongoDB to store semantic data alongside Mediawiki relational DB
• Folding in select SMW+ extensions into main SMW development
• New ideas for Semantic Result Formats (tiled view - Masonry plugin, advanced timeline - cf Facebook).
• Add your idea here...

Attendee list

The Confirmed attendee list can be found on Eventbrite.

Accommodations

Those planning to attend SMWCon should consider reserving a room as soon as possible, since hotels in Manhattan can sometimes get filled up quickly. The following are all moderately-priced hotels and hostels in the area around ITP:

• The Bowery House, 220 Bowery (12 minute walk)
• Chelsea Star Hotel, 300 West 30th St. (35 minute walk, 16 minutes by subway)
• The Jane Hotel, 113 Jane St. (25 minute walk, 21 minutes by subway)

If you wish to share a hotel room with other attendees, or to stay with a local attendee, in order to save on costs, please add your name below.

Tuesday night gathering

There is a get-together for drinks being organized on Tuesday night, the night before SMWCon starts, by Doug Beeson; to join, please write him at dbeesonvideotron.ca.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the support of the following organizations:

• NYU-ITP
• WikiWorks
• Wikidata project
• Lotico
• Ontodia
• and the great SMW community!