Submissions:2014/NYCpedia: using Mediawiki with NYC's Open Data


 * Title of the submission: NYCpedia: using Mediawiki with NYC's Open Data


 * Themes (Proposal Themes - Community, Tech, Outreach, GLAM, Education): Tech


 * Type of submission (Presentation Types - Panel, Workshop, Presentation, etc): Lightning Talk


 * Author of the submission: Joel Natividad


 * E-mail address: joel.natividad@ontodia.com


 * Username: jqnatividad


 * US state or country of origin: NY


 * Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.): Ontodia


 * Personal homepage or blog: pediacities.com


 * Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal): See how Mediawiki, specifically, Semantic MediaWiki can be used to organize Open Data now being released at scale by New York City, converting raw open data catalogs with thousands of datasets, into hyperlocalized data aggregations of places around the city, democratizing access to this valuable resource of Open Data - data about us, for us, and paid for by us, beyond software developers and researchers.


 * Length of presentation/talk (see Presentation Types for lengths of different presentation types): 5 Minutes


 * Will you attend WikiConference USA if your submission is not accepted?: Yes


 * Slides or further information (optional):


 * Special request as to time of presentations:

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