The BigDataEurope consortium would like to thank all stakeholders for following the project, attending our activities and contributing to the results. Your endorsement and participation contributed to a successful outcome!
Summary of Major Results
One can summarise the results of the project in three categories:
Strengthening the Societal Communities: the large number of project activities provided a platform for stakeholders interest in the seven societal challenges could come together, network, identify common issues and identify common solutions – the latter, at least the ones of a technical nature, largely supported by the project. We augur that a large part of the communities strengthened by the project will continue to work closely together.
BigDataIntegrator Platform: perhaps the most concrete project result, the BDI is a flexible and open-source platform that can be more easily deployed and customised to build Big Data pipelines that address open-ended challenges. Based on the Docker virtualization, the base platform is enriched with a layer of services that support the workflows’ setup, creation and maintenance. Supported by a simple graphical UI, it offers basic building blocks (e.g. Apache Spark, Hadoop HDFS, Apache Flink, etc.) to get started with common Big Data technologies. The BDI continues to be maintained (on Github) beyond the project, and is being used in various external projects and initiatives. Given it’s impact in the big data technical area, it is also being proposed as an Apache Incubator.
Pilot Demonstrations: the value of the BDI has been demonstrated in 7 separate pipelines that target a selected big data problem from each of the 7 societal challenges. These pipelines extend a predefined BDI pipelines designed for each of the societal challenges, based on the requirements identified for each domain. The pilots have been useful to demonstrate the flexibility of the BDI platform and its ability to target big data challenges of a varying from any domain. Some of the final pilots have taken a life of their own, and are being extended in follow-up projects and initiatives.
In addition to the above, the large amount of valuable material generated by the project is available for posterity on the project profiles:
Youtube Channel (50 videos): The recorded technical webinars (e.g. final BDI launch, relevance in the context of activities like the Big Data Value Association) and societal hangouts; demonstrations of BDI and its pilots, and interviews with the developers.
SlideShare (237 slides): All project presentations, from a wide variety of physical and online activities (including all workshops, webinars, hangouts and external events).
Flickr: Pictures from the physical events (workshops, conferences and other events).
Follow-up Projects
Below is a list of H2020 and other projects that build on the BigDataEurope results, most notably by adapting a BDI pipeline for their needs. The list is valid until early 2018 and might not be updated at a later date.
Project |
Timeframe |
BigDataEurope take-up |
2017 – 20 |
Re-use and customisation of the BDE Platform. |
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2018 – 21 |
BDE follow-up initiative of € 20 million to improve the competitiveness of the automotive sector through Big Data. |
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2017 – 19 |
Re-use and customisation of the BDE Platform (in particular SANSA and Ontario). |
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2016 – 20 |
The SatCen pilot builds on results of H2020 projects, including the BDE SC7 pilot. |
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2017 – 20 |
A share of the BETTER big data pipelines targeting a total of up to 36 challenges (12 per year) will exploit the project results, particularly the BDI and the SC7 pilot instance. |
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2018 – 20 |
Re-use and customisation of the BDE Platform, specifically the extension of the software stack that has been produced in the SC2 pilot instance. |
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2018 – 20 |
Re-use and customisation of the BDE Platform as a basis for the DARE platform. |
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SUMA-I-BDA |
2018 – 21 |
Smarter use of mobility assets through innovative big data Analytics, using the know-how gained in the SC4 pilot. |
Precision Medicine |
2018 – 19 |
Re-use and customisation of the BDE Platform a basis for the new Greek national precision medicine infrastructure. These efforts are also related to the IASIS project. |
2018-21 |
This CSA shall re-use results from the BDE project, in particular the platform. |