SMWCon Spring 2014/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[edit]

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