SMWCon Spring 2014

SMWCon Spring 2014
The 9th conference brings together developers, users, and organizations from the Semantic MediaWiki community around the world.
Conference details
Start:	2014/05/21
Finish:	2014/05/23
General Chair:	René Witte
Local Chair:	Bahar Sateli
Program Chair:	David Mason
Feed:	RSS feed, Atom feed
Wikidata-ID:	Q42407099
DOI:	not yet provided
Address
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Montréal, Canada
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The Spring 2014 SMWCon was held May 21-23 in Montréal, Canada. SMWCon is a twice-yearly event for users and developers of Semantic MediaWiki. You can read the conference announcement and download the official poster and help us distribute it.

Location

The Spring 2014 SMWCon was held at Concordia University in Montréal. Montréal is the second-largest city in Canada and the metropolis of the province of Quebec. Rich in culture and history, Montréal has earned itself a reputation as one of the liveliest cities in North America for its festivals during summer time.

For more information about the conference series, see SMWCon. For general discussions or questions about this conference, please use the user mailing list.

Program

Community and tutorial Day - Wed, May 21
8:30 AM	Doors open - Registration (Ground floor, MB building)
9:00 AM	Opening talks
	Introductions and overview Science through Semantic Wikis - Yolanda Gil
10:30 AM	Coffee break
11:00 AM	Morning Session 1
	SMW for Scientific Literature Management - Bahar Sateli ProvenanceBee: Tracking Semantic Content and its Provenance in Semantic MediaWiki Installations - Yolanda Gil
12:30 PM	Lunch provided onsite
1:30 PM	Afternoon Session 1
	A beginner's guide to using Semantic Mediawiki; considerations, setup, using Semantic Forms - David Mason
3:00 PM	Coffee break
3:30 PM	Afternoon Session 2
	Adding Natural Language Processing Support to Your (Semantic) MediaWiki (hands-on) - René Witte and Bahar Sateli Sharing structures, ontologies and vocabularies to bootstrap wikis - workshop - Yves Otis and Guillaume Coulombe
5:00 PM	End of Tutorial Day
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM	Welcome Reception (EV 11th floor) Snacks and drinks

Conference Day 1 – Thu, May 22
9:00 AM	Morning Session 1 (bring your coffee)
	Keynote: Wikidata and what it means for SMW - Markus Krötzsch
10:30 AM	Coffee break
11:00 AM	Morning Session 2
	Collaborative Analytics: Where Groups Collaborate with Semantic Visualizations - Bernadette Clemente Expressing complex data in SMW: Lessons learned from building a botanical knowledge portal - Joel Sachs Semantic MediaWiki Farm Infrastructure for Multi-Organizational Sharing - Cindy Cicalese
12:30 PM	Lunch with suggestions for nearby lunch spots
2:00 PM	Afternoon Session 1
	Using SMW to characterize a new hospital challenges - Guillaume Coulombe and Pierre Deschênes What Semantic Forms won't do - Yaron Koren
3:30 PM	Coffee break
4:00 PM	Afternoon Session 2
	Cirkipedia - Cirque du Soleil's own Wiki - Jimmy St-Germain Using the Miga Data Viewer - Yaron Koren Porting wikis to semantic wikis - Yves Otis
5:30 PM	End of Conference Day
6:30 PM	Social event - food and drinks at a local brasserie (free for all paying attendees)

Conference Day 2 – Fri, May 23
9:15 AM	Morning session 1 (bring your coffee)
	Current plans and next steps for RDFIO - Ali King and Joel Sachs SMW, Semantic Web and Wikidata Q&A - Markus Krötzsch
10:30 AM	Coffee break
11:00 AM	Morning Session 2
	An Interactive Knowledge Sharing platform for Scientific Organization and Research Activities Management - Emna Mezghani SMW stories, real and imagined, from at least three geoscience wikis - Matt Hall The Growth of a Semantic Wiki Inside a Large Healthcare Organization - Chris Koerner and Nancy Krautmann
12:30 PM	Lunch with suggestions for nearby lunch spots
2:00 PM	Afternoon Session 1
	NATO's Use of SMW for Enterprise Architecture - Peter J. Woudsma A MediaWiki Consortium: What we're doing and how you can get involved - Mark A Hershberger A Resource To Support Multilingual Legal Literacy - Frank Taylor
3:30 PM	Coffee break
4:00 PM	Afternoon Session 2
	Community discussion - Markus Krötzsch (moderator)
5:15 PM	End of Conference, suggestions on where to go in Montreal for those staying on.

Lightning talks

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

Proposed talks

You can add the name of your talk and the link to its description here and it will be added to the program. (You can use the Talk form to create pages for talks.)

Topics for community discussions

The discussion is one of the most important part of the conference. Please add issues you want to discuss.

Sponsors

• Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University is our Gold sponsor
• Concordia University, Montreal is our Platinum sponsor

Informal attendee list

If you are planning to attend, feel free to add your name below; though please make sure to also register.

1. René Witte
2. Bahar Sateli
3. James Montalvo
4. Daren Welsh
5. Peter J. Woudsma
6. Chris Koerner
7. David Mason
8. Guillaume Coulombe
9. Liliane Fallon
10. Yoann Ochietti
11. Jimmy St-Germain
12. Yves Otis
13. Emmanuel Décarie
14. Bernadette Clemente
15. Cindy Cicalese
16. Jason Ji
17. Nancy Krautmann
18. Alain Désilets
19. Joel Sachs
20. Yolanda Gil
21. Isaac Farley
22. Andrew Geary
23. Louis-Philippe Durocher
24. Pierre Deschênes
25. Matt Hall
26. Markus Krötzsch
27. Emna Mezghani
28. Frank Taylor
29. Marcus Gilliam
30. Jamal Rahal
31. Joel Natividad
32. Yaron Koren
33. Nicolas Nallet
34. Nele Noppe
35. Ali King
36. Régis Barondeau
37. Barry Grenon

Registration

Registration is now open through EventBrite. The early Bird registration deadline ended April 30th, EDT.

CONCORDIA STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS: We offer 5 scholarships for eligible Concordia students to cover the registration fees. For competition details, please visit http://www.semanticsoftware.info/smwcon2014-scholarships Application deadline is Monday, May 12th.

Visa Letters

If you need an invitation letter for acquiring a Canadian visa, please contact Bahar Sateli.

Venue Information

Please check out the Local Information page for more information on the venue, travel and accommodation options.