SMWCon Fall 2011


SMWCon Fall 2011
The 4th conference on Semantic MediaWiki (SMWCon) brings together developers, users, and organizations from the semantic wiki community around the world.
Conference details
Location impakt berlin - Raum für soziale Innovation
Start: September 21, 2011
Finish: September 23, 2011
General Chair: Christian Becker
Local Chair: Anja Jentzsch, Janine Glahn
Program Chair: Anja Jentzsch, Lydia Pintscher




Type: SMWCon
Audience: Everyone
Feed: RSS feed, Atom feed
Wikidata-ID: Q42407139
Address
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Erkelenzdamm 59-61, 10999 Berlin
impakt berlin - Raum für soziale Innovation
Table of Contents
World time clock and TV tower on Alexanderplatz

The Fall 2011 SMWCon was held on September 21–23, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Following the success of the SMWCon Spring 2011, it will feature a similar three-day setup with an additional hands-on/tutorial day before the two conference days.

  • Tutorial Day: Wednesday, Sept 21: tutorials and hands-on sessions
  • Conference: Thursday, Sept 22. – Friday, Sept. 23: presentations and group discussions

As with the previous SMWCons, SMWCon Fall 2011 will include presentations and discussions about current applications and the future development of Semantic MediaWiki and its extensions and applications. Participants are invited to present their own work and to discuss experiences and ideas. While the conference will have scheduled presentations, each will encourage free discussion and a rapid exchange of ideas.

SMWCon has so far been a twice-yearly conference that brings together developers, users, and organizations from the Semantic MediaWiki community around the world. For more information, see SMWCon.

Program[edit]

Tutorial Day[edit]

On Wednesday, Sept 21 there will be a full day of tutorials, given by experienced SMW developers and users.

Schedule

9:00 - Doors open

9:00 - 10:00 AM - Registration and Coffee

10:00 - 11:30 AM - MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki - Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandečić This tutorial will cover the basics of MediaWiki, including wiki syntax, namespaces, parser functions and extensions, and Semantic MediaWiki, including properties, queries and RDF export. (slides)

11:30 - 11:50 AM - Coffee break

11:50 AM - 1:20 PM - SMW and Structured Data - Yaron Koren, Jeroen De Dauw

Covers the use of SMW in conjunction with templates, along with a variety of extensions that support using SMW as a structured database, including Semantic Result Formats, Semantic Maps, Semantic Compound Queries, Semantic Forms, Semantic Internal Objects and Semantic Drilldown. This will be a hands-on tutorial, with participants creating their own data structures within a test wiki.

1:20 - 2:20 PM - Lunch

2:20 - 3:50 PM - SMW+ - Daniel Hansch, Michael Erdmann

A hands-on tutorial about the SMW+ Community Edition package, which includes SMW, Halo and other extensions. The tutorial will cover identifying data in wiki articles, basic ontology modelling practices, collaboratively building a wiki application comprising a data model, automatically generated semantic forms and data visualisations. (slides) (Video of presentation)

3:50 - 4:10 AM - Coffee break

4:10 - 4:55 PM - Facets of Using SMW - Jesse Wang

This tutorial shows some applied aspects of SMW. It is for people who have the basic understanding of how SMW works but would like to expand the horizon. It covers a wide range of topics including Jumpstart, installation, extension choice, customization, sidebar, skins, template, query, tips and tricks, data I/O, optimization (including SEO) and more.

4:55 - 5:40 PM - Saving C02: Top SMW Performance Issues and How to Address Them - Markus Krötzsch

How to identify performance bottlenecks in Semantic MediaWiki data design and querying.

From 6:30 PM - Dinner at Il Casolare

There will also be dinner at Il Casolare (map), a nearby Italian restaurant, for interested participants from both groups, although this is not included in the entrance fee.
Address: Il Casolare, Grimmstraße 30, 10967 Berlin

Developer Consultations

There will be a parallel hands-on session where SMW developers will be available for discussing specific questions around SMW. This session will be a unique opportunity to directly discuss issues, ideas, questions, technical details, the weather, etc. with the core developers of SMW – who are rarely found together in one place. Both developers and users are welcome to join.

Conference days[edit]

The main conference will be on Thursday, Sept. 22 and Friday, Sept. 23. Below is the current schedule:

Thursday

9:00 - Doors open

9:00 - 10:00 AM - Registration and Coffee

10:00 - 10:15 AM - Welcome Remarks

10:15 - 11:00 AM - Keynote: Markus Krötzsch: "Connecting SMW to RDF Databases: Why, What, and How?"

11:00 - 11:30 AM - Widura Schwittek: Towards a Common Body of Knowledge on Engineering Secure Software and Services - First experiences from an EU project

11:30 - 12:00 AM - Coffee break

12:00 - 12:15 PM - Jeroen De Dauw: "Semantic Watchlist - a new extension to keep track of changes to your semantic data" - Talk slides

12:15 - 1:15 PM - William Smith, Christian Becker and Andreas Schultz: "Neurowiki: How we integrated large datasets into SMW with R2R and Silk / LDIF" (Slides part 1, part 2)

1:15 - 2:15 PM - Lunch

2:15 - 3:15 PM - Lightning talks

3:15 - 3:45 PM - Yaron Koren: "Goodbye, special properties? The advantages of an XML-based approach for storing data structure"

3:45 - 4:15 PM - Coffee break

4:15 - 5:00 PM - Denny Vrandečić and Daniel Kinzler: "Wikidata: Making a 'Semantic Wikipedia' a reality" (slides)

5:00 - 5:30 PM - Karsten Borgmann and Daniel Hansch: "Docupedia: a joint project to provide the community with a flexible tool to tag, poll, and aggregate RSS feeds in SMW."

5:30 - 5:45 PM - Henk Scholten: "OrangeGen: An SMW-based application generator"

From 6 PM - Main Conference Dinner at Tomasa

The Main Conference Dinner will be held at Tomasa Kreuzberg (map). It is included in the conference fee.
Address: Tomasa in der Villa Kreuzberg, Kreuzbergstraße 62 - 10965 Berlin
Friday

9:00 - Doors open

9:00 - 10:00 AM - Registration and Coffee

10:00 - 11:00 AM - Keynote: Anja Jentzsch: Linked Data - Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space

11:00 - 11:30 AM - Jesse Wang: Semantic Page Creator: easily build social semantic web applications with SMW Demo Wiki

11:30 - 12:00 AM - Coffee break

12:00 - 12:45 PM - Samuel Lampa: "Hooking up Semantic MediaWiki with external tools via SPARQL"
(Links: Slides, Slides at Slideshare, Related blog posts, RDFIO Extension, Bioclipse SMW module (github), Bioclipse.net, Egons posts on: R integration, Visualization)

12:45 - 1:15 PM - Michael Erdmann: "Data integration projects with SMW+ and OntoBroker"

1:15 - 2:15 PM - Lunch

2:15 - 2:45 PM - Jeff Pan: "Tractable Reasoning: When SMW meets TrOWL"

2:45 - 3:30 PM - Markus Krötzsch and Jeroen De Dauw: "Next steps for Semantic MediaWiki"

3:30 - 4:00 PM - Coffee break

4:00 - 4:30 PM - Benedikt Kämpgen: Using SMW as a Semantic Web Browser and Connecting Semantic MediaWiki to statistical data

4:30 - 4:45 PM - Mike Cariaso: "What's new with SNPedia"

4:45 - 5:15 PM - Panel: "Community feedback" (Markus Krötzsch, Jeroen De Dauw, Michael Erdmann, Yaron Koren, Jesse Wang). See discussion minutes for details.

From 6:00 PM - Dinner at Tangs Kantine

There will be dinner at Tangs Kantine (map), a nearby Chinese restaurant, for interested participants although this is not included in the entrance fee.
Address: Tangs Kantine, Dieffenbachstr. 18, 10967 Berlin


Lightning talks[edit]

The schedule will include an hour of lightning talks (each one around 5 minutes) on Thursday. To give a lightning talk, add your name and the title below:

Registration[edit]

To register please go to: http://de.amiando.com/SMWCon_Fall_2011

Registration options[edit]

Registration includes attendance for the selected dates, lunch on each day, and the conference dinner on Thursday. Students can register at heavily subsidised rates, thanks to our sponsors. MediaWiki developers can register at reduced rates to the developers'/tutorial day.

Early bird rates are valid until September 14, 23:59 PST, after which prices will increase by 20%.

There are three registration categories:

Regular[edit]

Description Early bird After September 14
Main Conference and Tutorial Day € 205.00 € 246.00
Main Conference only € 95.00 € 114.00

Students[edit]

Description Early bird After September 14
Main Conference and Tutorial Day € 60.00 € 72.00
Main Conference only € 40.00 € 48.00

Students must be able to produce a valid student ID at the conference.

Developers[edit]

Description Early bird After September 14
Main Conference and Tutorial Day € 115.00 € 138.00
Main Conference only € 95.00 € 114.00

Notes:

  • "Tutorial Day" here means the parallel developer-consultation track (which is also open to others). To be considered a developer in this context, you need to have committed code to a free and open source MediaWiki extension.
  • The prices indicated here already include VAT.

Informal attendee list[edit]

You may informally register your plan to come by editing the list below. Please make sure to book your official ticket at your earliest convenience using the link above – this greatly helps us plan for catering etc.

Please put your name below if you will be attending SMWCon.

  1. Markus Krötzsch
  2. Jeroen De Dauw
  3. Cornelia Veja
  4. Yaron Koren
  5. Jesse Wang
  6. Widura Schwittek
  7. kgh
  8. Stephan Gambke
  9. Samuel Lampa
  10. Simon Bachenberg
  11. Henk Scholten
  12. Karsten Borgmann
  13. Salvatore Loguercio
  14. Mark Greaves
  15. Wil Smith
  16. Toniher
  17. Achim Bode
  18. Anja Jentzsch
  19. Christian Becker
  20. Janine Glahn
  21. Andrea Matteini
  22. Michael Cariaso
  23. Frederic Matthé
  24. Alexander Gesinn
  25. Jude Jonassaint
  26. Michael Erdmann (ontoprise)
  27. Daniel Hansch (ontoprise)
  28. Andreas Schultz
  29. Carmen Brando
  30. Benedikt Kämpgen
  31. Daniel Kinzler (WMDE)
  32. Gerald Schwarz
  33. Tammy Sun
  34. Pablo Mendes
  35. Lawrence Poon
  36. Andreas Rulle
  37. Franz Borrmann
  38. Jeff Z. Pan

Note: Please book your official ticket at http://de.amiando.com/SMWCon_Fall_2011.

Information for Participants[edit]

Participants and remote participants can use the general SMW IRC channel #semantic-mediawiki.

Social media tag: #SMWCon - SMW on social media sites: Twitter, Identi.ca

Short URL for this page: http://bit.ly/smwcon

Location[edit]

The event will take place at impakt berlin:

impakt berlin - Raum für soziale Innovation

Address: Erkelenzdamm 59-61, 10999 Berlin

impakt is in "Portal 1" (rear building, 3. OG / fourth floor)

See the location on Google Maps

The nearest subway stations are: U Prinzenstrasse (U1) or U Kottbusser Tor (U1, U8)

Things to do in Berlin[edit]

The meeting is conveniently located before the weekend, allowing you to extend your stay to explore Berlin. Here are some pointers to help you make the most out of your stay!

Event listings

City magazines

Sightseeing

Travel[edit]

Local transport[edit]

Public transit[edit]

Public transit runs in short intervals and is very affordable. The VBB system includes S, U and regional trains, trams, buses and even some ferryboats.

The system is organized into three zones A, B, C. The "AB" tickets encompass the official city boundary. Note that "ABC" is needed to go to and from Schönefeld Airport (SXF), however.

To find your way around the public transport system, please refer to http://www.fahrinfo-berlin.de/Fahrinfo/bin/query.bin/en?ld=0.1&

Buying and validating tickets

  • Do not fall for the temptation of buying "used" tickets offered by strangers - in many cases, they are only good photocopies
  • Tickets bought on S- and U-Bahn stations are sold in advance and must be validated for each ride (or daily for a day pass). You can do this using the yellow (U-Bahn) or red (S-Bahn) boxes. Failure to validate is the equivalent of not having a ticket.
  • Trams and buses have validation boxes as well. However, if you buy the ticket on board, it will already have the date and time printed on it and thus doesn't need to be validated.

Fee summary (Berlin AB region)

  • Single ride: 2,30 €
  • 4 single rides: 8,20 €
  • Day pass: 6,30 €
  • 7-day pass: 27,20 €

There are special tourist packages (CityTourCard/WelcomeCard) with combined access to museums, however day or weekly tickets will be cheaper unless you plan to make extensive use of the museum discounts (more details)

Taxis[edit]

Taxi hires are available from:

  • Würfelfunk - (+49) (0)800 CAB CALL (0800 2222255)
  • TaxiFunk - (+49) (0)30 44 33 22

At the airport, make sure you queue up in the official line and do not accept unlicensed cars that may be offered to you in the waiting hall.

International[edit]

Berlin is very well connected internationally. Berlin has two major airports, the city airport Berlin-Tegel and Berlin-Schoenefeld, which is located close to Berlin. If you choose Berlin-Schoenefeld, please check local public transport options from the airport to your hotel upfront in case of your arriving time is between 11 PM and 4 AM.

The Berlin Main Station (Berlin-Hauptbahnhof) connects Berlin to other German and European cities by train.

Airports and Main Station on the map

Accommodation[edit]

We have prepared a selection of hotels at SMWCon_Fall_2011/Hotels.

Contact the Organizers[edit]

The event will be hosted by the Web-Based Systems Group of Prof. Chris Bizer at Free University Berlin and MediaEvent Services.

Organization Committee

General discussions about SMWCon should be started on the user mailing list.

Presentation Videos[edit]

Please let me know of any corrections/changes/additions/edits that need to be made to videos. --GWSuperfan 02:14, 30 October 2011 (CEST)

Tutorial Day Videos[edit]

Day One Videos[edit]

Day Two Videos[edit]

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