Big Data Europe is delighted to be a Gold Sponsor of the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). Supported by BDE partner W3C, the project’s sponsorship reflects its advances in handling RDF at substantial scale across a number of pilots. Big Data Europe’s architecture includes the Ontario layer that enables a SPARQL query to be executed across all data available in the platform, irrespective of its format, in the so called Semantic Data Lake, and the Scalable Semantics Analytics Stack, SANSA.

At the time of writing, it is not known whether papers submitted to the conference have been accepted but either way, Big Data Europe will definitely be at ISWC in Vienna in October with live demos and more. For more on the conference, see local chair Axel Polleres’ blog post. See you in Vienna!

Big Data can make important contributions to the technical progress in key societal challenges identified by the European Union in its “Horizon 2020” and thereby also on OpenScience!

A workshop in September 2017 will focus on societal challenge 6 “Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective societies”, with a main focus of OpenScience & (Big) Data Management by introducing the background, covering the main challenges, and seeking real examples of the potential, challenges and complexities of using big data in our societies.

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Even though the BigDataEurope is a CSA (Coordination and Support Actions) project, this didn’t prevent some research to sprout and flourish here and there during the project adventure in the wild of Big data. The project coordinators as well as many board members were already heavy research contributors or supporters.