How we built the SMWCon Spring 2012 website in less than one month. Motivation, experience, lessons learned

1. Making of SMWcon Site
Journey of Dogfooding
Jesse Wang, Ning Hu, Justin Zhang

2. Motivation
All previous conferences are plain MediaWiki pages
Quick, easy, simple
Not semantic, content not rich
Use Semantic MediaWiki as the tool
Power of semantics
Data to play with
Time to build – in less than a month
Issues we’ll find – “eat your own dog food”

3. Can We Make It?

4. Semantic Page Maker
Comes to Rescue
1. 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

5. Initial Ontology

8. Structure and
Semantics In Action
Semantic Page Maker and
Inline Editor with Wiki Object Model

19. SMWCon Spring 2012
Looks OK Now
How was it?

32. Total Efforts
Coding 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

33. Summary
Good 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 experienced
We know what to do
Bad news: we are experienced
You mileage may vary

34. Enjoy!
Your survived the Last Talk of the Day!
Two social activities
Gym/Pool time in this modern fitness center
Ranked #1 in Greater San Diego area 3 years in a row
Beach walk – sunset view or swimming/surfing
A long day: 6981 El Camino Real
Breakfast, lunch, 3 coffee breaks (between Dove Ln & Alga Rd)
Carlsbad, CA 92009
Conference Dinner at 7-10pm
(760) 929-8111
Tuscany Ristorante
http://www.tomasos.com/