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SMWCon Fall 2017
The 14th conference on Semantic MediaWiki (SMWCon) brings together developers, users and organizations from the semantic wiki community around the world.
Conference details
Start:	October 4, 2017
Finish:	October 6, 2017
General Chair:	Remco de Boer, Karsten Hoffmeyer
Local Chair:	Toine Schijvenaars, Esther Greefhorst
Program Chair:	Lloyd Rutledge
Financial Chair:	Erwin Oord
Sponsorship Chair:	Ad Strack van Schijndel
Feed:	RSS feed, Atom feed
Wikidata-ID:	not yet provided
DOI:	not yet provided
Address
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Rotterdam Zoo (Blijdorp), The Shark Room, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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Table of Contents
Contents [hide] 1 Program proposals 1.1 Tutorials and Workshops 1.2 Talks 2 Attendees and Registration 2.1 Participants 2.2 Supporters 2.3 Organizers 3 Additional information and links 3.1 Accommodation 3.2 Grants for Wikimedians 3.3 Reach out 3.4 Things to do in the Netherlands

SMWCon Fall 2017 - the 14th Semantic MediaWiki Conference:

October 4 - 6, 2017, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Location: Rotterdam Zoo (Blijdorp) in the Shark Room
Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, wikis and open knowledge, especially in Semantic MediaWiki, e.g., users, developers, consultants, business or government representatives, researchers.

Program proposals

Attendees and Registration

Accommodation

Program proposals[edit]

Please, feel free to add your proposals below and sign it with your username. We will contact you soon!

Tutorials and Workshops[edit]

October 4

Propose your tutorial or workshop here ...
Tutorial: Introduction to Semantic MediaWiki --Karsten Hoffmeyer
Workshop: Semantic MediaWiki in Humanities, Education and Social Science --Lia Veja (DIPF)
Workshop: Multilingualism and Semantic MediaWiki: Challenges and solutions --Richard Heigl
Workshop: Translating system messages and other localizable strings --Karsten Hoffmeyer
Workshop: Taking the first step towards a Semantic Information Retrieval System (SIRS) --Lex Sulzer
Workshop: LDAP Hackathon --Cindy Cicalese, Robert Vogel, Mark Hershberger

Talks[edit]

October 5 - 6

Keynotes:

Thursday, October 5th: Smart data for smarter fire fighters, Bart van Leeuwen, Netage B.V.
Friday, October 6th: Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Main Talks:

Attendees and Registration[edit]

You can register for SMWCon 2017 via Eventbrite.

	Student ^*		Professional		VIP ^‡
Admission	Early bird^†	Regular	Early bird^†	Regular
Tutorial day only (4 Oct)	€ 39,-	€ 49,-	€ 59,-	€ 69,-	-
Conference days only (5, 6 Oct)	€ 69,-	€ 79,-	€ 159,-	€ 169,-	-
Tutorial + Conference (4, 5, 6 Oct)	€ 99,-	€ 109,-	€ 189,-	€ 199,-	€ 349,-
Register

^*To be eligible for the reduced fee, students must be able to present proof of student status upon request
^†Early registrations are eligible for a reduced, early bird fee. Early bird registration ends September 6.
^‡As a VIP, by acquiring a VIP-ticket you provide extra support for the SMWCon conference.

In case you also want to make your attendance visible, just add your name to the list below:

Participants[edit]

Supporters[edit]

Wikimedia Nederland
Are you a Member of WikiMedia NL? Register here and then ask for full reimbursement of the admission fee here.

Organizers[edit]

ArchiXL specialist in enterprise IT architecture, knowledge management and semantic wikis

Wikibase Solutions
Specialist in business solutions with MediaWiki

Additional information and links[edit]

Accommodation[edit]

To help you find suitable accomodation, we have made arrangements with two hotels. These hotels provide a discount for SMWCon attendees:

Van der Valk Rotterdam-Blijdorp: Next to the conference venue / zoo. Superior single room including breakfast at € 105,- per night. To apply for the discount, reservations should be made to the hotel by phone (+31-10-2988777) or via e-mail (info@rotterdam-blijdorp.valk.nl) using the reservation code BLI-GF13363
easyHotel: For a discount code of 10% on the Orange Club Rate, use the voucher code SMWCON (valid for Twin, Standard and Business rooms). All reservations have to be prepaid, reservations can be made via the hotel website (http://www.easyhotelbenelux.com). You can enter the code at the last page of the booking process.

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Grants for Wikimedians[edit]

Travel & Participation Support funds Wikimedians to actively represent Wikimedia at events around the world. Learn about the Travel & Participation Support program

Reach out[edit]

Initial Announcement of SMWCon Fall 2017 - May 29th, 2016

Things to do in the Netherlands[edit]

ESA Open Day 2017 - October 8th, 2017 - Noordwijk - free (need to register)

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 '''Keynotes:'''
-* ''Thursday, October 5th'': Bart van Leeuwen, [http://netage.nl/en/ Netage B.V.]
+* ''Thursday, October 5th'': ''Smart data for smarter fire fighters'', Bart van Leeuwen, [http://netage.nl/en/ Netage B.V.]
 * ''Friday, October 6th'': [http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frank.van.harmelen/ Frank van Harmelen], Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam