From SemWiki2008

Organising Committee

Christoph Lange is a Ph.D. student in the KWARC group (knowledge adaptation and reasoning for content) at Jacobs University Bremen. His research topics are mathematical knowledge management (MKM), semantic markup languages, and semantic wikis. He is developing and maintaining SWiM, a semantic wiki for mathematical knowledge management, that aims at supporting scientists and learners. He has published scientific papers about MKM and semantic wikis at several workshops as well as a book chapter on his SWiM system and is PC member and/or reviewer for several workshops and conferences in the MKM or semantic web area, e.g. MKM 2007 and I-SEMANTICS 2007, and has edited a book about using, administering, and customizing wikis.

Dr. Sebastian Schaffert is working as a Senior Researcher and Project Manager at the group for Knowledge-based Information Systems (KIS) at Salzburg Research as of August 2005. Since 2006, he is also Scientific Director of Salzburg NewMediaLab (SNML), the Austrian industry competence centre on New Media hosted by Salzburg Research. From 2001-2005, Sebastian was a research and teaching assistant at the Institute for Informatics, University of Munich, Germany. He received his PhD from the University of Munich in 2004. Sebastian Schaffert is engaged in research on the Semantic Web, Social Software, eLearning, Knowledge Representation and Knowledge-based Systems, Reasoning and Programming Languages. His particular interest is currently in the combination of Social Software with Semantic Web technologies. In the above-mentioned areas, he has numerous publications and is member of many programme committees in international journals, conferences, and workshops. Sebastian Schaffert was among other things also the initiator and co-programme chair of the 1st Workshop “From Wiki to Semantics” at ESWC06 and of the Semantics conference series (2006 in Vienna, 2007 in Graz), which is concerned about the “Social Semantic Web” and industry relevant research on Semantic Systems. Sebastian Schaffert is also co-ordinator of the EU FP7 project KIWI starting in March 2008. KIWI's main topic is knowledge management with Semantic Wikis.

Dr. Hala Skaf-Molli received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Nancy University in 1997. Since 1998, she is Associate Professor at University of Nancy. She is member of the INRIA ECOO (Environments for Cooperation) project. Dr. Skaf-Molli has mainly worked on collaborative environments and focused on problems of semantic consistency of shared data in collaborative environments and awareness models for collaborative editing. She has been or is regular Program Committee member of ICEIS (Conference on Enterprise Information Systems) since 2003, IFIP CONFENIS (Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems) 2007. She is member of the local organization committee of Wise2007 (Web Information Systems Engineering) conference and co-chair of special session on Computer Supported Collaborative Editing in iceis2007.

Max Völkel is working as a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant at the Forschungzentrum für Informatik (FZI) at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH). His topics are Personal Knowledge Management, Semantic Web Infrastructure and Semantic Wikis. In the Knowledge Web Network of Excellence he has worked on versioning RDF data and programatic access of ontologies (RDFReactor). He works in the EU-project NEPOMUK to build a next-generation knowledge articulation tool. He is the author of a number of RDF-based tools such as RDF2Go, a triple store abstraction layer. Currently he is working on a semantic web content repository (swecr), unifying RDF and Web 2.0 content management. He is also one of the founders of the Semantic MediaWiki project. He was in the PC of SAAW 2006, I-SEMANTICS 2007, ACM WikiSym 2007, and ISWC2007. He was a reviewer for IEEE Internet Computing and ACM HyperText2007.