Event Description

Speaker: Michiel Duvekot
Michiel Duvekot, Global is Technical Lead for Maya Product Support at Autodesk

Signup: see http://www.meetup.com/TorontoWikiTuesdays/calendar/9904930/

Location Autodesk Canada Head Office, 210 King Street East
Date: 19 May 2009
Time: 6:30 for 7pm

Event Sponsor Citadel Rock

When and Where:

6:30pm, Tuesday 19th May at 210 King Street East in the upstairs presentation suite.

Synopsis

Michiel Duvekot, Global Technical Lead for Maya Product Support at Autodesk talks about Autodesk’s use of a Semantic Mediawiki to support a Knowledge Centric Support methodology.

Capturing knowledge as it emerges and enhancing and structuring it while in use led to quick growth of the KB to 12,000 articles in a year, and significant reductions in redundant data entry. While many wikis provides facilities to embed searches into the page, to collect related information, Semantic wikis emphasize supporting making pages modular and language based, and then using features such as human-readable searches. This makes building a knowledge base easier, and searching more accurate.

This talk will address the practical aspects of implementing a Semantic Media Wiki and show that it is feasible for almost anyone to implement at virtually no cost, as well as the social aspects of engaging users in contributing to a Semantic Media Wiki.

Details

1) Topic: if you've ever thought about how to structure content on a wiki you'll have realised there is a progression towards smaller, and increasingly meaningful units of text for each topic content, highly intentional page names, and careful phrasing around links. This makes your content closer to a knowledge base, easier to search and easier to maintain.

Semantics is the study of meaning. So, Semantic Wikis emphasize functionality for highly meaningful content, links and search. Michiel, tonight's speaker - and a regular at TWT - will tell us how his company has overcome the special challenges of implementing and getting adoption for his semantic wiki, based on MediaWiki? , and the benefits they are now reaping.

2) Location: We are in a new (awesome!) location - on King Street East past George Brown College. Be sure to allow extra time to get there! If you are late you'll need to call me to get in: 416-786-6752.

3) Food: because we are in an office location, but there are three take out places near by. Please arrive by 6:30, buy and bring food up.

4) Waiting list: A special message to those were put on or put off by the "Waiting List". This is now gone, and your RSVP should have been confirmed. Let me know - 416-786-6752 if it has not. (Thanks for your note, Gary!)

5) Timing: Next month, like this month, TWT will be in the 3rd week of the month rather than the first. I know this messes with some people's diary's, but on a brighter note, it may also allow some to attend that usually can't.

Who should come and why

Interested in the topic? Got an opinion? Or just interested to network? Come join our community.

* Knowledge Management Professionals * Information Curators * Online Community Leaders * Those interested in structuring information. * Those using wikis to amass and disseminate opinion * Managers and leaders responsible for evaluating possible use of wikis * Change transformation agents * Organizational design professionals interested in creating organisational transparency * Consultants and designers who build integration, navigation, visuals and plugins * Wiki users Wiki gardeners who improve content clarity, and, if you are still reading, * You!

About Toronto Wiki Tuesdays and Blended Perspectives Toronto Wiki Tuesdays has been running since 2005 and has a mandate to spread the word about how a wiki can transform communication in organisations and the nature of business. Toronto Wiki Tuesdays was founded and is run by Martin Cleaver M.Sc. MBA, Head Blender of Blended Perspectives and a Chair of WikiSym, the International Symposium on wikis and Open Collaboration. If you enjoy Toronto Wiki Tuesdays you should check out Martin's other event, Knowledge Workers Toronto

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