SMWCon Fall 2012 Session Playlist

Overview from Yury Katkov:

The day have begun with magnificent talk about Wikidata from its project leader, Denny Vrandečić. In some sense Wikidata implements the original vision of SMW and make the Wikipedia semantically annotated.

We next had three sessions.


 * 1) First one was pretty technical and was dedicated mostly to performance issues: after the traditional talk about the current state of the project by Markus and Jeroen, Nischay told about the new storage meschnism in SMW. Then Eloy describes how SMW is used in Wikia and what benefits it gives to the wiki-owners and what problems it sometimes caused.
 * 2) Second session was not about SMW but about the other wiki engine that have similar functions. OntoWiki that separates the text and the semantic annotations is used by AKSW laboratory for a lot of Linked Data projects. BlueSpice, an extension bundle to make MediaWiki more user-friendly and ready-to-use in the enterprises. KWARC tools that allows to include machine-readable data to the mathematical content. There are a lot of things SMW community can learn from these great tools.
 * 3) Third session was dedicated to SMW applications in different domains. We've seen how SMW helps people to support structured discussion about the ontology objects (Cicero system). The other talk was about using enhanced SMW for synchronizing the long-term strategies of organizations to design the common future (Foresight creation). Benedikt shows how to apply the platform for financial analysis of a small organization. Finally Remco presented the case of government application of SMW (Architectural Knowledge).