SMW users meeting

This meeting was held on Nov. 22-23 2008. To see notes, links to slides, and photos, see Minutes for November 22 2008 SMW Users Meeting at Monitor Group and Minutes for November 23 2008 SMW Users Meeting at Monitor Group.

The first meeting of Semantic MediaWiki users is scheduled to be held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA on Saturday, November 22, 2008, with a "tech day" on Sunday, November 23.

Overview

The main meeting, on Saturday, will start at 10:30 AM and will cover many aspects of SMW and its related extensions, including technical, usability, training, "best practices", marketing and business-development issues. The Sunday, "tech day" meeting will also start at 10:30 AM, and will cover in-depth technical aspects of some proposed additions to the SMW system.

Location

Both meetings will take place at the offices of the Monitor Group, at 2 Canal Park in Cambridge, MA.

Attendees

The following people will attend the main meeting on Saturday:

Definitely attending

• Jie Bao, RPI Tetherless World Constellation
• Li Ding, RPI Tetherless World Constellation
• Rui Huang, RPI Tetherless World Constellation
• Zhenning Shangguan, RPI Tetherless World Constellation
• Evan Patton, RPI Tetherless World Constellation
• Neil Davies, Monitor
• Dave Forgianni, Monitor
• Steven Forth, Monitor
• Jason Lawrence, Monitor
• Rich Slezak, Monitor
• Daniel Hansch, ontoprise
• Henrik Oppermann, ontoprise
• Yaron Koren, Referata
• Marc Feickert, FamilySearch
• Mollie Forbes, FamilySearch
• Don Stringham, FamilySearch
• Robert Freimuth, Mayo Clinic, caBIG(R) Vocabulary Knowledge Center
• Guoqian Jiang, Mayo Clinic
• Michael Cariaso, SNPedia.com & BioTeam.net
• Fabian Howahl, University of Karlsruhe
• Harold Solbrig, Mayo Clinic
• Joel Natividad
• Patrick Sbrzesny, mindXchange Ltd.
• Michael English
• Mark Greaves, Vulcan
• Mike Axelrod
• Clarence Dillon, SAIC

Possibly attending

• Sergey Chernyshev
• Joshua Shinavier, RPI Tetherless World Constellation
• Xixi Luo, RPI Tetherless World Constellation
• Ankesh Khandelwal, RPI Tetherless World Constellation
• Joshua Seagroves, i_SW Corp.
• Tom Eskridge, IHMC
• ericP, W3C

Sunday meeting

The following people will attend the meeting on Sunday:

• Jie Bao
• Dave Forgianni
• Steven Forth
• Guoqian Jiang
• Yaron Koren
• Harold Solbrig
• Joel Natividad
• Patrick Sbrzesny
• Clarence Dillon
• ericP, W3C

Schedule

This is the current planned schedule for Saturday:

• 10 - 10:30 AM - arrival, light breakfast
• 10:30 - 11 AM - introductions and welcome
• 11 - 11:30 AM - Global outreach
• 11:30 AM - 1 PM - Academic issues
• 1 - 2 PM - lunch
• 2 - 3 PM - Corporate usage
• 3 - 3:45 PM - Future developments
• 3:45 - 4 PM - snack break
• 4 - 5 PM - SMW best practices
• 5 - 6:30 PM - break into separate sections for further discussions on individual topics
• 6:30 - 7 PM - wrapup
• 7 PM+ - head out for dinner and drinks

Program

Here is the description of each planned discussion.

Global outreach

Led by: Yaron Koren, Steven Forth

Open discussion about making the SMW system easier to understand, both technically and conceptually, including for non-English speakers; and ways to popularize it.

Academic issues

Presenters: Jie Bao, Li Ding, Fabian Howahl, Guoqian Jiang

Developments of SMW in the academic community: research groups, current work being done, long-term projects. Specific topics could include:

• SMW for knowledge representation and meta-modeling
• SMW for concept modeling and light-weight semantic web applications
• SMW for data integration, e.g., RSS data flow
• SMW for distributed terminology development (LexWiki framework and use cases)

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Future developments

Presenters: Daniel Hansch, Yaron Koren

Discussion of planned, and desired, future changes and additions to the various Semantic MediaWiki-related extensions.

Explicit integration support

• Triple stores (Daniel: will present how to connect SMW to OntoBroker/Jena; how to use user-defined rules in SMW)
• Modelers
• Reasoners
• Search and semantic search
• Other platforms
  • Facebook
  • Google Apps
  • Salesforce & Force.com
• Standards
  • SIOC
  • Others?

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If you need a place to stay in Boston for the meeting, or if you live in Boston and have extra room, please add your name and some contact information here:

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