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'''Type''': Resolution
I attended http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Spring_2010_SMWCon at the MIT CSAIL Lab in sunny Boston and microblogged (on Twitter) comments on most sessions; my talk is at [[Encouraging Semantic Mediawiki use with non technical people‎]].


'''Status''': Adopted on 6/29/99
== State of the software - Yaron Koren ==


'''Source File''': http://ci.santa-rosa.ca.us/default.aspx?PageId=257&NewsId=24045
* First challenge for smw: visibility
* Second challenge for smw: communication ... duplicate effort
* "no brick walls separating users from developers," everyone welcome to contribute
* Third challenge, less important, funding ... too much money can hurt a project
* "Semantic" is an abused word, use alternatives.. platform.. but semantic will be the breakthrough?


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== Welcome address - David Karger  ==


'''RESOLUTION NO. 24045'''<br>
* @karger - many tools are wrong, developers 'guessing' - smw lets users emerge their data/structure, see more tools like smw
''RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ROSA SUPPORTING THE USE OF "ZAP" ELECTRIC BIKES AND SCOOTERS IN THE CITY OF SANTA ROSA''
* Philip of @Ontoprise plan fine access controls; rich editor w annotations, queries; social/dashboard; wikibooks; facet browse, rules


'''WHEREAS''', the City of Santa Rosa is committed to protecting the environment and the health of its residents; and
== Halo: Current status and future developments in 2010 - Philipp Zaltenbach ==


'''WHEREAS''', overuse of gas-powered vehicles is harmful to people's health and the environment and contributes to noise pollution; and
* @Ontoprise dev'ing linked open data #LOD between sites — integrate DBPedia (WP), etc; q about dependencies on their proprietary sw
* side skype chat discussing problems with rich text editors that mangle output, same problem for many systems


'''WHEREAS''', Zero Air Pollution Company ("ZAP") designs and manufactures electric bicycles and scooters, which are an environmentally-friendly alternative means of transportation; and
== Mashup of LexWiki and WebProtege for collaborative ontology authoring - Guoqian Jiang ==


'''WHEREAS''', electric bikes and scooters will reduce the amount of traffic, congestion, air pollution and noise pollution in Santa Rosa and improve the overall quality of life for Santa Rosa residents; and
* Guoqian Jiang @MayoClinic Lexwiki collab ontology dev ('propose' tab), curate, integrity; SMW to scale/distrib experts, hierch probs


'''WHEREAS''', electric bikes and scooters offer mobility for disabled individuals and others who are physically unable to either drive automobiles or use pedal-only bicycles; and


'''WHEREAS''', Santa Rosa and more than 170 other law enforcement agencies across the nation use electric bicycles in their daily patrols and find them to be both useful and safe; and
==The Unbearable Lightness of Wiking - A Study of SMW Usability - Jie Bao  ==
* Jie Bao SMW usability (map.rpi.edu, data.gov) UI trumps low level abilities; forms limited; page model restrictive; devs prefer dev
* RDF model 'deeply right' for flexbl DB. Fixes: small cadre dev semantics, most use; inline triples; support mult POV; SMW != RDF


'''WHEREAS''', it is the Council's intent that these devices will be treated as bicycles, subject to the rules and provisions governing bicycles within the City.
== Applying SMW on the Wikia environment - Timothy Quievryn ==
* Timothy Quievryn SMW impact on @wikia (mostly entertainment); Forms great advance, biggest wikis use it; soon all, dynamic games?


'''NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED''' that the Council supports the use of ZAP electric bicycles and scooters in the City of Santa Rosa.
== WikiTags: Connecting SMW with MS Office users - Jesse Wang ==
* Jesse Wang connects SMW to MS Office for user workflow, usability: uses MS SMartTags. Browse values, easy Outlook export nonfree
 
== Flexible, purposive SMW use - Clarence Dillon ==
* Clarence Dillon @DeptofDefense Flexible, purposive SMW use: mil takes 5 years to roll out; hesitate to collab.
* "Power corrupts; PowerPoint corrupts absolutely"
* simpler comm model for mil w SMW. huge money/time savings. spread via peer pressure. organic, private wikis, gov2gov, triage, social
* social networking critical. remote data, vocabularies. encouraging not using Office at all, directly in wiki. wikipatterns
* avoid noisy data w forms, "nobody above Major/above 35 uses it" (with exceptions) intel. comm. "learn to collab or lose job"
 
==SIMILE, Exhibit, Wibit, Datapress, and Dido - David Karger ==
* @karger SIMILE, Exhibit, Dido: structured data in embedded novel interfaces for everyone in author society — lenses, views, facets
* @karger "You only need one person to be interested in something for it to show up on the Web" [http://shawnday.com/drink.html Ontario breweries 1914-1915]
* online course catalog in 4 days, took 6 months to get data from registrar; easy reuse data; datapress embed in wordpress cross site
* Dido inline view/data editor ­— no need to learn schemas, "Make the data look the way you want" separate representation from backend
 
==The future of Semantic Forms - Yaron Koren ==
* Yaron Koren @wikiworks Next steps for Semantic Forms better integrated; easier SMW class maint; sep model/view, device UIs; use XML?
* wiki markup vs xml, issues moving away from wiki model to create richer, simpler UIs, markup too complicated: a crossroads
 
==Handling n-ary data - Yaron Koren ==
* No great answers for n-ary data in SMW — no rich page editing, problems with page model?
 
 
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Latest revision as of 18:39, 10 November 2010

I attended http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Spring_2010_SMWCon at the MIT CSAIL Lab in sunny Boston and microblogged (on Twitter) comments on most sessions; my talk is at Encouraging Semantic Mediawiki use with non technical people‎.

State of the software - Yaron Koren

  • First challenge for smw: visibility
  • Second challenge for smw: communication ... duplicate effort
  • "no brick walls separating users from developers," everyone welcome to contribute
  • Third challenge, less important, funding ... too much money can hurt a project
  • "Semantic" is an abused word, use alternatives.. platform.. but semantic will be the breakthrough?

Welcome address - David Karger

  • @karger - many tools are wrong, developers 'guessing' - smw lets users emerge their data/structure, see more tools like smw
  • Philip of @Ontoprise plan fine access controls; rich editor w annotations, queries; social/dashboard; wikibooks; facet browse, rules

Halo: Current status and future developments in 2010 - Philipp Zaltenbach

  • @Ontoprise dev'ing linked open data #LOD between sites — integrate DBPedia (WP), etc; q about dependencies on their proprietary sw
  • side skype chat discussing problems with rich text editors that mangle output, same problem for many systems

Mashup of LexWiki and WebProtege for collaborative ontology authoring - Guoqian Jiang

  • Guoqian Jiang @MayoClinic Lexwiki collab ontology dev ('propose' tab), curate, integrity; SMW to scale/distrib experts, hierch probs


The Unbearable Lightness of Wiking - A Study of SMW Usability - Jie Bao

  • Jie Bao SMW usability (map.rpi.edu, data.gov) UI trumps low level abilities; forms limited; page model restrictive; devs prefer dev
  • RDF model 'deeply right' for flexbl DB. Fixes: small cadre dev semantics, most use; inline triples; support mult POV; SMW != RDF

Applying SMW on the Wikia environment - Timothy Quievryn

  • Timothy Quievryn SMW impact on @wikia (mostly entertainment); Forms great advance, biggest wikis use it; soon all, dynamic games?

WikiTags: Connecting SMW with MS Office users - Jesse Wang

  • Jesse Wang connects SMW to MS Office for user workflow, usability: uses MS SMartTags. Browse values, easy Outlook export nonfree

Flexible, purposive SMW use - Clarence Dillon

  • Clarence Dillon @DeptofDefense Flexible, purposive SMW use: mil takes 5 years to roll out; hesitate to collab.
  • "Power corrupts; PowerPoint corrupts absolutely"
  • simpler comm model for mil w SMW. huge money/time savings. spread via peer pressure. organic, private wikis, gov2gov, triage, social
  • social networking critical. remote data, vocabularies. encouraging not using Office at all, directly in wiki. wikipatterns
  • avoid noisy data w forms, "nobody above Major/above 35 uses it" (with exceptions) intel. comm. "learn to collab or lose job"

SIMILE, Exhibit, Wibit, Datapress, and Dido - David Karger

  • @karger SIMILE, Exhibit, Dido: structured data in embedded novel interfaces for everyone in author society — lenses, views, facets
  • @karger "You only need one person to be interested in something for it to show up on the Web" Ontario breweries 1914-1915
  • online course catalog in 4 days, took 6 months to get data from registrar; easy reuse data; datapress embed in wordpress cross site
  • Dido inline view/data editor ­— no need to learn schemas, "Make the data look the way you want" separate representation from backend

The future of Semantic Forms - Yaron Koren

  • Yaron Koren @wikiworks Next steps for Semantic Forms better integrated; easier SMW class maint; sep model/view, device UIs; use XML?
  • wiki markup vs xml, issues moving away from wiki model to create richer, simpler UIs, markup too complicated: a crossroads

Handling n-ary data - Yaron Koren

  • No great answers for n-ary data in SMW — no rich page editing, problems with page model?



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