Grants:TPS/Nlkraut1/SMWCon Fall 2013

User name

nlkraut1

User location (country)

United States

Event name

SMWCon Fall 2013

Event Web site

http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2013

Event date(s)

October 28th to 30th, 2013

Event location (city)

Berlin

Amount requested (remember to specify currency!)

USD 1292

Endorsements

Budget breakdown

• Travel: USD 1292

Round-trip economy ticket between St. Louis, MO and Berlin on American Airlines/British Airways - priced on July 12, 2013.

Proposed Participation

Along with my co-worker Chris Koerner, I plan to present at the Semantic MediaWiki conference. We'll share how our healthcare company, Mercy, has leveraged SMW for internal clinical documentation accessible by all other co-workers. We've organized various types of documentation into different “segments” and created forms and templates to standardize presentation and support consistency. We collaborate with a variety of departments to establish their segments, and then they continue to enter and update their documentation, contacting us for ongoing support. The presentation proposal is here: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2013/SMW_in_Healthcare

Goal and Expected Impact

We'll present our material and hopefully inspire other attendees to use MediaWiki in their organizations - even if they are complex and diverse - to enable effective exchange of information, thereby improving efficiency. I'm looking forward to hearing what others are doing with the Semantic MediaWiki technology, in hopes of learning ways to enhance our work. In addition, Mercy has offered to help facilitate a Spring 2015 SMWCon event in St. Louis, so the experience attending and networking at the Berlin conference will be very helpful as we work on the future conference.

Other Sources of Funding

My employer has agreed to cover the costs of food and lodging, but not the airfare.