Making of SMWcon Site

Journey of Dogfooding

Jesse Wang, Ning Hu, Justin Zhang

MotivationAll previous conferences are plain MediaWiki pages

Quick, easy, simple

Not semantic, content not rich

Use Semantic MediaWiki as the toolPower of semantics

Data to play with

Time to build – in less than a month

Issues we’ll find – “eat your own dog food”

Can We Make It?

Semantic Page Maker Comes to

Rescue1. Make the ontology

2. Configure the Wiki via ontology

3. Put in Contents

4. Bug fixes and Improvements

SMWCon Fall 2011 Berlin Talk : http://www.slideshare.net/jiaxinwang/semantic-wiki-page-maker

Initial Ontology

FinalOntology

Structure and Semantics In

Action Semantic Page Maker and

Inline Editor with Wiki Object Model

SMWCon Spring 2012

Looks OK NowHow was it?

Total EffortsCoding Improvement: 40 hours

Ontology design: 16 hours

UI design / implementation : 40 hours

Content creation : 30 hours

Testing & Bug fixes: 20 hours

Others (infrastructure, installation): 35 hours

SummaryGood showcase of Semantic MediaWiki

It’s as quick as we expected to get it started

It’s slower to get some details nailed down

Good news: we are experiencedWe know what to do

Bad news: we are experiencedYou mileage may vary

Enjoy!Your survived the Last Talk of the Day!

Two social activitiesGym/Pool time in this modern fitness center

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Beach walk – sunset view or swimming/surfing

A long day:Breakfast, lunch, 3 coffee breaks

Conference Dinner at 7-10pmTuscany Ristorante

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