SMWCon Fall 2011

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.

Tutorial Day
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
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
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:


 * SMWConWikiAppIntro.pdf - this is a follow-up of ontoprise's proposal at the SMW user conference Spring 2011 to host a Wiki Application Repository and help the community to bundle and publish Wiki Applications. We will present a couple of new applications and give directions how to make bundles and how to use them. --User:Daniel Hansch 11:03, 15 August 2011 (CEST)
 * SMWConDBpediaSpotlight.pdf. In this talk I wish to discuss how structured information on SMW can help to build better natural language processing applications such as DBpedia Spotlight, and how these applications can make it easier to add structured information to wikis. On the one hand, disambiguations, redirects, entity types and entity properties are invaluable to complement natural language text in several information extraction tasks such as entity linking and relationship extraction. On the other hand, results from these information extraction tasks can be employed as suggestion engines that help users to provide more complete and interconnected encyclopaedic knowledge. -- User:Pablo Mendes 16:40, 18 August 2011 (CEST)
 * Spark - new MediaWiki extension that uses the Spark library to embed visualizations based on data obtained via SPARQL - Talk slides -- Jeroen De Dauw 17:53, 18 August 2011 (CEST)
 * http://129.13.109.100/~dropedia/index.php/Baqqouria_Spring
 * WhatLinksThere 2nd degree link visualization with circos (slides). User:Cariaso
 * The MediaWiki ResourceLoader, and why it's awesome. Yaron Koren 13:54, 19 August 2011 (CEST)
 * Simple file access restriction using Semantic MediaWiki properties. ImageRefer --Toniher 11:04, 23 August 2011 (CEST)
 * semantic::apps - business applications based on SMW. In this short talk I'll give you a brief introduction to the vision and challenges of semantic::apps. --Planetenxin 16:12, 26 August 2011 (CEST)
 * Testbed of four triple stores on a virtual machine. Available to copy. (Challenges of getting SMW into organizations is shifted to Business Roundtable). Henk Scholten
 * What's new in Semantic Maps - Talk slides --Jeroen De Dauw 03:36, 16 September 2011 (CEST)
 * Lets Talk Business!: I want to invite everybody who is doing business with SMW to join in the SMW Business Roundtable at the Dinner tonight. --Daniel Hansch 09:43, 16 September 2011 (CEST)
 *  A SMW mashup: SNPedia + Gene Wiki. --Salvatore Loguercio 11:47, 20 September 2011 (CEST)
 * SMW System Testing with Selenium - Current status [[File:Kaempgen_smwcon_2011_selenium.pdf]] - Benedikt Kämpgen
 * SMW+ Deployment Framework for distributing and marketing your extensions --Michael Erdmann 14:16, 22 September 2011 (CEST)

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

Registration options
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:

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

Developers
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
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
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
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
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
 * Berlin.de (English, mainly lists art exhibitions)
 * berlin.unlike (English, various events)
 * EXBERLINER (English, various events)
 * Resident Advisor (English, parties)
 * Zitty (German, various events)

City magazines
 * berlin.unlike
 * EXBERLINER - Berlin in English
 * Zitty (German)

Sightseeing
 * Berlin on Wikitravel
 * Berlin Sightseeing Tour

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

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


 * Organization Committee:


 * Anja Jentzsch
 * Christian Becker
 * Janine Glahn
 * Lydia Pintscher

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

Presentation Videos
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

 * SMW and Structured Data (Semantic Bundle Tutorial) by Yaron Koren and Jeroen De Dauw
 * SMW+ Tutorial by Daniel Hansch, Michael Erdmann
 * Facets of using SMW by Jesse Wang
 * Saving C02: Top SMW Performance Issues and How to Address Them by Markus Krötzsch

Day One Videos

 * Welcome/Announcements
 * Keynote: Connecting SMW to RDF Databases: Why, What, and How? by Markus Krötzsch
 * Towards a Common Body of Knowledge on Engineering Secure Software and Services - First experiences from an EU project by Widura Schwittek
 * Semantic Watchlist - a new extension to keep track of changes to your semantic data by Jeroen De Dauw
 * Neurowiki: How we integrated large datasets into SMW with R2R and Silk / LDIF by William Smith, Christian Becker and Andreas Schultz
 * Lightning Talks
 * Wiki Apps by Daniel Hansch
 * Semantic Maps by Jeroen De Dauw
 * WhatLinksThere: Second-degree link visualization by Mike Cariaso
 * The MediaWiki ResourceLoader, and why it's awesome by Yaron Koren
 * Simple file access restriction using Semantic MediaWiki properties by Toni Hermoso Pulido
 * semantic::apps - business applications based on SMW by Alexander Gesinn
 * Testbed of four triple stores on a virtual machine by Henk Scholten
 * SMW+ Deployment Framework by Michael Erdmann
 * The future of visualizations in Semantic MediaWiki by Jeroen De Dauw
 * Invitation to Business Roundtable by Daniel Hansch
 * A SMW mashup: SNPedia + Gene Wiki by Salvatore Loguercio
 * Selenium Testing of SMW by Benedikt Kämpgen
 * Goodbye, special properties? The advantages of an XML-based approach for storing data structure by Yaron Koren
 * Wikidata: Making a 'Semantic Wikipedia' a reality by Denny Vrandečić and Daniel Kinzler
 * Docupedia: a joint project to provide the community with a flexible tool to tag, poll, and aggregate RSS feeds in SMW by Karsten Borgmann and Daniel Hansch
 * OrangeGen: An SMW-based application generator by Henk Scholten

Day Two Videos

 * Keynote: Linked Data - Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space by Anja Jentzsch
 * Semantic Page Creator: easily build social semantic web applications with SMW by Jesse Wang
 * Hooking up Semantic MediaWiki with external tools via SPARQL by Samuel Lampa
 * Data integration projects with SMW+ and OntoBroker by Michael Erdmann
 * Tractable Reasoning: When SMW meets TrOWL by Jeff Pan
 * Next steps for Semantic MediaWiki by Markus Krötzsch and Jeroen De Dauw
 * SMW as a Semantic Web Browser by Benedikt Kaempgen
 * Connecting SMW to Statistical Data by Benedikt Kaempgen
 * What's new with SNPedia by Mike Cariaso
 * Panel Discussion: Community Feedback (Markus Krötzsch, Jeroen De Dauw, Michael Erdmann, Yaron Koren, Jesse Wang)