SMWCon Fall 2014

SMWCon Fall 2014
The 10th conference on Semantic MediaWiki (SMWCon) brings together developers, users, and organizations from the semantic wiki community around the world.
Conference details
Location	Vienna, Austria
Start:	October 1, 2014
Finish:	October 3, 2014
Calendar:	Event schedule
General  Chair:	Bernhard Krabina
Local Chair:	Bernhard Krabina
Program Chair:	Franz Borrmann
Type:	SMWCon
Audience:	Everyone
Feed:	RSS feed, Atom feed
Address
Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","geoservice":"geonames","types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"maxzoom":false,"width":"280px","height":"280px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"wmsoverlay":false,"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":14,"layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"resizable":false,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"markercluster":false,"tilt":0,"imageoverlays":[],"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"searchmarkers":"","enablefullscreen":false,"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":48.1848606,"lon":16.4215429,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]} Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna, Gasometer D, Guglgasse 14, 1110 Vienna, Austria
Vienna, Austria
Loading...
Table of Contents

We are happy to announce SMWCon Fall 2014 - the 10th Semantic MediaWiki Conference:

October 1 - 3, 2014, Vienna

• Dates: October 1st to October 3rd 2014 (Wednesday to Friday), with a Create Camp on Saturday, October 4th
• Location: Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna, Gasometer D, Guglgasse 14, 1110 Vienna, Austria
• Conference wikipage: https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2014
• Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, wikis and open knowledge, especially in Semantic MediaWiki, e.g., users, developers, consultants, business or government representatives, researchers.
• Registration is now open at: http://de.amiando.com/SMWCon2014.html
• The hashtag on Twitter is #SMWCon.

SMWCon Fall 2014 will be organized by KDZ - Centre for Public Administration Research, supported by the Open Semantic Data Association and the Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna in cooperation with Wikimedia Austria and Open Knowledge Foundation Austria.

Following the success of recent SMWCons, we will have one tutorial day and two conference days. As a novelty, the SMWCon in Vienna will have a Create Camp / Hackathon on Saturday at the KDZ premises.

If you have questions you can contact me, Bernhard Krabina (General Chair and Local Chair) or Franz Borrmann (Program Chair) per e-mail.

Hope to see you in Vienna!

Please leave us your suggestions so that we can tailor the program for you. A call for papers can be found on the Announcement page.

Information auf Deutsch

• SMW Konferenz in Wien.pdf

Tutorial day, October 1st

Suggestions/wishes for the tutorial day? What would you like to learn, which problems should be addressed during the tutorials? What would you like to teach others?

I would like to hear about:

• Use of composer for extension management
• Security issues - how to make a SMW installation safe?
• Printing from SMW
• Import - Export

I would like to teach about:

• If there is interest, I can repeat and/or expand (with some SMW stuff) the content of my last year's tutorial presentation http://slides.com/similis/mediawiki-extensions/ --Toniher (talk) 16:41, 7 August 2014 (CEST)

Conference days, October 2nd - 3rd

Regular talks

some topics might be:

• Development roadmap - what are the plans for SMW, what is in the pipeline
• Recent developments - what are you developing in the moment? Where are the challenges?
• Business Applications - what technology did you use, what were the boundary conditions and how did you solve your challenges?
• Science Applications - what are potential or proven uses for SMW? How did SMW improve or change the way you work?
• What is left and right of SMW? Interesting developments around wikis, semantic web technologies & knowledge management.

Please add your suggestions here:

• "Multilingual, usable and effective Captchas" - by Aalekh N and Sakshi B
• "Historical Wiki of Vienna - the largest city wiki" - Christoph Sonnlechner, Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna
• "SMW between OpenData, OpenGLAM, Linked Data and the Semantic Web" - Krabina Bernhard (talk) 08:44, 18 June 2014 (CEST)
• "Interactive Pollutant Registry powered by Semantic MediaWiki" - Alexander Gesinn (gesinn.it GmbH & Co. KG) & Franz Borrmann
• "SMW as part of an Industry 4.0 Landscape" - Alexander Gesinn (gesinn.it GmbH & Co. KG)
• Introduction of plastic.js - how SMW can benefit from it (Simon Heimler)

Posters and demos

• We will show you live demos of semantic::apps (gesinn.it GmbH & Co. KG)

Would you like to show a demo system or would you like to present a poster? Please feel free to add the topic

Proposed lightning talks

If you can present your idea, your proposal or your solution in 3-4 minutes and 3 slides, you're welcome to add your suggestion here

Topic wishlist for community discussions

Propose topics that should find a platform at SMWCon Fall 2014

• Development needs - what kind of solution/extension would make SMW even better? What are the most wanted features? What are the most annoying bugs?

Informal attendee list

Add yourself to the list if you want to be at the conference. You have to register for the conference at http://de.amiando.com/SMWCon2014.html but still you are welcome to add you name here

1. Bernhard Krabina, KDZ - Centre for Pubic Administration Research
2. Franz Borrmann, iUS
3. Alexander Gesinn, gesinn.it
4. Robert Heine, energypedia.info
5. Karsten Hoffmeyer, wikihoster.net
6. Joachim King, bsb-muenchen.de
7. Martin G., Freie Unisversität Berlin
8. John McClure, Bell Tower Wikis
9. Yury Katkov, Blue Brain Project
10. Jeroen De Dauw
11. Benjamin Rebenich, energypedia.info
12. Toni Hermoso Pulido
13. Simon Heimler
14. This could be you. :)

Create Camp, October 4th

The create camp on Saturday, October 4th will be hosted at KDZ, just across the street from the conference venue. The goal of the create camp is to bring togehter people interested in getting things done in one day. This can be programming, fixing bugs, installing, testing, configuring, documenting, marketing Semantic MediaWikis.

Due to limited space, participation is limited to max. 20 persons.

Participants

Please feel free to add your name to this list to show your interest. When you register for the conference, you can check if you are intersted in this free event.

1. Bernhard Krabina, KDZ - Centre for Pubic Administration Research
2. Joachim King, bsb-muenchen.de
3. Dave Brennan, Steria UK Ltd
4. This could be you. :)

Topics/Ideas

Feel free to suggest topics you are interested in getting done on the create camp/hackday:

1. Improve date querying in SMW: currently the date format is quite nice, but for a stored date, I'd like to be able to query a day or month or year...
2. Bughunting session
3. Improve documentation, translate, update www.semantic-mediawiki.org
4. Editathlon - edit/update articles in the Vienna Historical Wiki and related Wikipedia articles
5. Add your ideas here... :)

Accommodation and Travel

Accommodation

You are responsible for booking accomodation individually. The following options are suggestions and contingents have been reserved there:

IBIS St. Marx

• Website: http://www.ibis.com/de/hotel-3706-ibis-budget-wien-sankt-marx/index.shtml
• 10 min. walk to the conference venue
• EUR 45,00 (single), EUR 55,00 (double), breakfast EUR 6,00
• 30 rooms are reserved until 19.08.2014, booking code "KDZ"
• Please use this booking form Media:Ibis Booking Form.pdf

Motel One Wien Westbahnhof

• Website: http://www.motel-one.com/de/hotels/wien/hotel-wien-westbahnhof
• located at railway station Wien Westbahnhof, along the U3 (30 min to venue with subway)
• EUR 78,51 inkl. breakfast
• 30 rooms are reserved until 29.08.2014, booking code "KDZ"
• Please use this booking form Media:MotelOne Booking Form.pdf

Roomz

• Website: http://www.roomz-vienna.com/en
• located right across the conference venue (1 min. walk)
• EUR 99,00, breakfast EUR 15,00
• 30 rooms are reserved until 15.09.2014, booking code "KDZ"
• Please use this booking form Media:Roomz Booking Form.pdf

K+K Hotels Maria Theresia

• Website: http://www.kkhotels.com/en/hotels-in-wien/k-k-hotel-maria-theresia/welcome/
• located at the U3 station "Volkstheater", 20 min. subway ride from conference venue
• EUR 124,00, breakfast included
• 10 rooms are reserved until 17.09.2014, booking code "KDZ"

Travel

The conference venue is reachable by subway U3 (orange line), station "Gasometer". This line runs through the city centre (station "Stephansplatz" as well as "Landstraße" where travellers usually arrive from the Vienna Internatioal Airport). By car you take the exit "St. Marx" from the highway A23 and follow the signs to "Gasometer City". Car parking is available for 5 EUR/day. You can find details here: http://www.wien.gv.at/english/history/archives/contact.html

Airport

Vienna

Vienna Airport is reachable by the more expensive but fast CAT - City Airport Train or the slower but cheaper S-Bahn both arrive at the station "Landstraße" where you can take the U3 to Gasomater (direction "Simmering").

Bratislava

An alternative (reached by some low-cost airlines) is the Bratislava Airport. From there you can take the bus or train.

Public Transport

Austrian Railway

http://www.oebb.at/en

Vienna Subway

There are 24, 48 and 72hour Tickets for getting around in Vienna by public transport.

General Infos and Tipps

• Visiting Vienna: http://www.wien.gv.at/english/culture-history/tourism/
• Route planner AnachB, also available as app: http://www.anachb.at
• Car parking: http://www.apcoa.at/Gasometer-City-A-C--Garage-513e.html

Financial Support

International Visitors

If you are a Wikimedia community member, you can ask for participation support at Wikimedia Foundation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Support

Visitors from Austria

If you are a visitor from Austria, you can ask for a similar support at Wikimedia Austria: https://www.wikimedia.at/ueber-wikimedia - please contact Claudia Garard at verein[at]wikimedia.at

Sponsors

GOLD

gesinn.it GmbH & Co. KG Empowering Information Workers - Provider of Semantic Enterprise Technology and Enterprise Data Integration.

SILVER

Cenarion  Experts for enterprise software and quality systems consulting. One of our core competencies lies in the implementation of enterprise wiki systems as part of the ISO 9001 certification.

SILVER

energypedia consult Innovative IT company in the field of development cooperation. Tailor-made IT tools go hand in hand with consultancy on results-based monitoring as well as knowledge and project management.

SILVER

Österreichischer Städtebund The Austrian Association of Cities and Towns represents the interests of local government in Austria.

Supported by Vienna Business Agency.

Contact Bernhard Krabina if you want to sponsor the event.

Organizers

KDZ - Centre for Public Administration Research
Knowledge Management in Public Administration

Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna
MA 8 - Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv

Wikimedia Austria
Support of Wikimedia community members.

Open Knowledge Foundation Austria
Organization of the Create Camp on October 4.