SMWCon Fall 2023/Conference schedule
From semantic-mediawiki.org
Day 1 - Monday, December 11 - AI and Knowledge Management
Find the correct time for your time zone here
{{{LeftTitle}}}
{{{RightTitle}}}
13:15
60 min.
Generative AI and large-language models are the most prominent of many current developments that force us to rethink: not just the implementations and technology stacks used in practice, but also the
whole endeavour of human knowledge management as such.
In this talk, Markus will provide a personal perspective on the origins and principles of semantic wikis, and some of the key challenges that lie ahead in managing knowledge.14:15
45 min.
Benefits, patterns and pitfalls of a new interaction paradigm
15:15
30 min.
Our life is going to be AI assisted.
The talk will be about Juggel, the name of a platform that allows to effectively create and use AI assistants. GPTs in the context of an organization or business.
The demo will show that MediaWiki with Semantic MediaWiki is an excellent basis for powerful AI assistants.16:00
20 min.
Talk about the lessons learned from the plugin, and on thoughts and vision for AI opportunities/capabilities.
Day 2 - Tuesday, December 12
Find the correct time for your time zone here
{{{LeftTitle}}}
{{{RightTitle}}}
9:15
20 min.
The talk will give a brief overview of the SMW Community and results from the community survey.
9:45
30 min.
In this talk we present a new extension for creating and managing inline comments, similar to the way comments can be posted in documents in e.g. Microsoft Word. Users can select fragments on a wiki page a post a comment linked to that fragment. Commented fragments will be highlighted and thus be visible to other users, who can display the comment text and post replies.
Comments can be made to static text fragments on a wiki page, but also to images and even to fragments of query results (e.g. words in table cells). The extension can be used with or without SMW. With SMW, comments will be added as semantic properties (subobjects) to the page and can be queried as any other property. Editors (with applicable permission) can manage (display, filter, complete, reopen, delete) comments from a special page.
A demo will be given and we can discuss whether this extension is suitable to be published as open source.10:30
20 min.
This talk highlights the effective utilization of Semantic MediaWiki to streamline and harmonize complex glossaries sourced from diverse origins, mitigating the challenges posed by overlapping or identical glossary terms.
11:00
45 min.
In this talk, I want to introduce the Workflows extension in general and show integrations with Semantic MediaWiki in particular. I will include a demo about how to create custom workflows and give hints about the extensibility of the extension.
13:30
10 min.
Keeping digital accessibility in mind when developing extensions and writing wikitext to make your wikis easier to navigate and read.
14:00
15 min.
A lightning talk about extensions that are popular with our customers, and might be interesting to others as well.
14:30
75 min.
A hands-on hackathon/workshop where you learn to make your wiki Parsoid-compatible using ArrayFunctions and Lua.
16:00
30 min.
Yearly update from the Wikimedia Foundation Content Transform Team on current and upcoming changes to wikitext and to related core APIs.
16:30
30 min.
We have overhauled interfaces of the MediaWiki rdbms library for developers to make it more aligned with industry practices, including but not limited to IConnectionProvider, virtual domains, query builders, expression builders and more. This talk goes over the changes, the reasoning and how to adopt the new interfaces.
18:30
Day 3 - Wednesday, December 13
Find the correct time for your time zone here
{{{LeftTitle}}}
{{{RightTitle}}}
9:15
15 min.
Quick introduction of some small extensions the BlueSpice team has created in the last year
9:30
45 min.
Last year at SMWCon 2022 Open CSP was launched. Today we present version 2.0.
Open CSP turns your SMW MediaWiki instalment into an enterprise ready Workspace. Out-of-the-box it is a perfect Knowledge base and you can use it as a base to create any Enterprise tool, like an ISMS, PM, CSM, CRM, etc..
In this talk we will show a clean and new install of Open CSP and how to get started.10:30
20 min.
Management of Process Requirements with Semantic MediaWiki: Experience in the Software Engineering Industry. (video)
The presentation discusses the use of Semantic MediaWiki to manage process requirements in the context of a software development company. The use of SMW allows the easy integration of process requirements defined in different software engineering standards within a Process Reference Model (PRM) based on the tailoring of the ECSS standards for VSEs (Very Small Entities) developed by different entities (ESA, CNES, DLR, JAXA, etc.)
11:00
15 min.
Flexible research documentation with Semantic building blocks: The Role of Semantic MediaWiki in Shaping the Data Strategy of a Collaborative Research Centre (video)
Explore the practical application of "Generic Protocols" within Semantic MediaWiki to simplify and standardize research documentation in engineering sciences.
11:15
30 min.
Since last year we rewrite OpenSemanticLab to be based completely on industry standards JSON-SCHEMA and JSON-LD. This allows to build new applications in no time and without any wiki templates and enables easy integration with any third party software. We also added experimental support to trigger external Python workflows through REST APIs and LocalGPT Q&A + search assistance.
13:00
30 min.
This talk will present how it's possible to create tasks, to assign them to someone, add due dates and how they can be controlled in a wiki. Therefore the extensions AtMentions, Checklists, DateTimeTools and SimpleTasks will be presented. There will be a demo and a presentation of the implementation, addressing challenges and new insights gained with it.
13:45
30 min.
In this talk we present a mechanism for real-time synchronisation of architecture models stored in a git-based repository to a SMW instance. In this solution, Git is used as version management enabled storage of architecture models created in a modelling tool. SMW is used as a platform for publishing and sharing this architecture knowledge. SMW is updated with every commit/push in the repository.
The synchronisation mechanism is generic and its architecture is designed in such a way that it can be easily extended for use with other sources that should synchronise to SMW.
14:30
15 min.
In this lightning talk, we'll delve into a prototype I've been tinkering with, which is all about enabling more intuitive interactions with Wikidata through natural language queries.
14:45
30 min.
Thoughts on how to improve Wikidata (and yes, Wikibase) querying and editing.
15:30
15 min.
The Design Systems Team at the Wikimedia Foundation is developing Codex, a new comprehensive design system for the Wikimedia movement. The team recently released version 1.0.0 and would like to share more about when and how to use Codex, and the future of other front-end frameworks within the MediaWiki ecosystem.
