What’s hot in the Semantic Wiki Community?

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This morning I received an invite from Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, to attend a Birds-of-a-Feather meeting as an informal side-event/after hour to ISWC (this event label was unknown to me, but “Birds of a feather/ flock together”, so I assume that this must be a meeting of people who share the same interests). There’ll be lightning talks, open discussions and of course plenty of opportunity to network. Here’s a link to a wiki page for the meeting – please put your name on the appropriate list if you’d like to attend or give a lightning talk. The event is scheduled for Sunday October 26th, after the ISWC program.

People unable to attend physically, Christoph wrote, might consider participating in the Semantic Wiki Mini-Series Launch Event via ONTOLOG (= Open, International, Virtual Community of Practice on Ontology, Ontological Engineering and Semantic Technology), to take place online on Thursday, October 23, 2008, 10:30 AM PDT / 1:30 PM EDT / 7:30pm CEST / 17:30 UTC (click here for more details, time zones, registration procedures for first-time participants).

Here are some of the topics that have already been put on the wish-list for the Semantic Wiki Mini-Series (source):

usability vs expressivity
community building
uncovering more implementations
HCI: navigation of large, high-dimensional knowledge spaces
e-science (especially pharma research & biomedicine)
semantic wikis and mashups
recommendation and personalization in semantic wikis,
knowledge representation (expresivity vs. simplicity)
how to make business subject matter experts able to enter, review and validate
meaningful information without them having to learn new words
what dialect of OWL supported
integration of semantic resources (Protege / OOR / MW / …)
content quality
integration of external data
a semantic wiki & OOR session
experiences with distributed collaboration
server-side infrastructure to support semantic wikis
survey of semantic wikis for vertical domains (e.g. HCLS)
integration with other tools / linking wiki content to other apps

If you ask me, there are more than enough topics not for a mini, but for a grand series of conferences on Semantic Wikis:) For updates, bookmark the homepage of the series.

What’s hot in the Semantic Wiki Community?

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