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The following are the slides from the conference:

The following are the slides from the talk at Fudan University:

SlideShare also has the slides of the tutorial:

ASWC 2009 Tutorial: Semantic MediaWiki and Applications

This tutorial will provide an introduction to semantic wikis, especially the most popular Semantic MediaWiki and web applications built on top the platform.

Semantic Wiki is a smart combination of semantic web technology and wiki-based social mechanisms. Semantic web technologies have been popular for several years, and have recently been applied to social media and web publication areas. Wikis are a significant portion of web 2.0. Semantic wikis combine both and offer greater power and flexibility. This tutorial will cover what semantic wikis are, the history, the state of art, extensions, applications and trends. The first half will be an overview of semantic wikis, the syntax and the power, with examples of popular wikis such as Semantic MediaWiki (SMW), Freebase, Confluence, etc. The second part will go deep into the popular SMW and its popular extensions, e.g., Halo, Semantic Forms, and so on, plus real-world applications, including one integrating SMW with Microsoft Office applications. Attendees can use the provided disk for hands-on exercises with a project management wiki.


Why do you want to be there

Semantic Wiki is one of the most relevant areas in semantic web R&D. It marries semantic web R&D achievements into wikis – a popular web 2.0 system. With added semantic markup, wikis can encompass more structured data, which can be used for better organization of content, better browsing and navigation (such as faceted browsing), better relevance(semantic search) and better visualizations. The semantic data in the wiki can also be easily published as part of Linked Open Data cloud, and queried via SPARQL and other query interfaces. The concepts and knowledge that can be curated in Semantic Wikis are also useful for scalable knowledge base construction and reasoning in AI.

Outline

Semantic wikis can be diverse and fulfill different goals, including:

  • Simple semantic annotation of existing wiki content
  • Tools to guide users to convert informal knowledge contained in texts to more formal, structured knowledge
  • Full-fledged system for ontology editing where text is no longer the focus of the system, but rather than concepts and relationships
  • Powerful and flexible web application development platform that can be easily configured and customized into semantic content management systems or collaboration applications.

Now and in the near future, Semantic Wikis play and will continue to play the important role of “knowledge acquisition”, enabling non-technical users without special training to consume and contribute to the semantic web.

In this tutorial, the following will be presented:

  1. Introduction and Overview
    1. Wikis
    2. Metadata and Meta-Web
    3. Semantic Web
    4. Semantic Wiki
  2. History of Semantic Wikis
    1. Brief history of Wikis and Semantic Web
    2. History of Semantic Wikis
    3. Evolution of Popularity
  3. The State of Art
    1. Semantic Markup Syntax
    2. Semantic Wiki Engines
    3. Semantic Wiki Usage
    4. Semantic Wikis Comparisons
  4. Examples of Semantic Wikis
    1. Semantic MediaWiki (SMW)
    2. Freebase
    3. IkeWiki and KiWi
    4. Confluence
    5. Applications of Semantic Wikis
  5. Semantic MediaWiki (SMW)
    1. Introduction to MediaWiki
      1. Usage
      2. History
      3. Markup
    2. More on Semantic Markup
      1. Expressive Power
    3. Query Power and Query Interface
    4. Semantic Search
  6. SMW+ and Extensions
    1. Adding and modifying data
      1. Halo Extension - 20m
      2. Semantic Forms - 20m
    2. Visualization - 10m
      1. Semantic Result Formats
      2. Semantic Maps
      3. Semantic Compound Queries
    3. Searching and Browsing
      1. Semantic Drilldown - 5m
      2. Semantic Gardening
    4. Compound data - 5m
      1. Multi-value properties
      2. Semantic Internal Objects
    5. Data Import and Export 5-10m
      1. Data Transfer
      2. External Data
      3. Data Import
    1. Workflow -5m
      1. Semantic Notifications
      2. Semantic Tasks
    2. Security-related extensions -3m
      1. HaloACL
  1. Real-world Applications 30m
    1. Real-Life Semantic Wikis
      1. Example 1 (textual or forms data) -5min
      2. Example 2 (multi-media SMW, pictures or video) -5min
    2. WikiTags: connecting wikis with Microsoft Office users - 15min
      1. Demo


The tutorial will last about 3 hours, the first 1 hour will cover section 1-5, and the remaining will go over 6-7.

Semantic Markup for People's Resumes

(The conference is over, but it is still making sense to put some useful scenario of semantic markups here). As you know, both Google and Yahoo start to recognize and use semantic markups (RDFa and microformat) to enhance their search result pages. One example to mark up a person's resume is done by Jesse via RDFa, and another so-called Happy King in microformats.

Sample Semantic

Have been trying to set up some kind of Semantic framework for our Wiki but having some trouble getting it started.

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