The Smart Data Analytics group is happy to announce SANSA 0.2 – the second release of the Scalable Semantic Analytics Stack. SANSA employs distributed computing for semantic technologies in order to allow scalable machine learning, inference and querying capabilities for large knowledge graphs.

• Website: http://sansa-stack.net
• GitHub: https://github.com/SANSA-Stack
• Download: http://sansa-stack.net/downloads-usage/
• ChangeLog: https://github.com/SANSA-Stack/SANSA-Stack/releases

You can find the FAQ and usage examples at http://sansa-stack.net/faq/.

The following features are currently supported by SANSA:

• Reading and writing RDF files in N-Triples format
• Reading OWL files in various standard formats
• Querying and partitioning based on Sparqlify
• RDFS/RDFS Simple/OWL-Horst forward chaining inference
• RDF graph clustering with different algorithms
• Rule mining from RDF graphs

Deployment and getting started:

• There are template projects for SBT and Maven for Apache Spark as well as for Apache Flink available to get started.
• The SANSA jar files are in Maven Central i.e. in most IDEs you can just search for “sansa” to include the dependencies in Maven projects.
• There is example code for various tasks available.
• We provide interactive notebooks for running and testing code via Docker.

We want to thank everyone who helped in the creation of this release.

SANSA Development Team

On June 14, SC4 will hold its first hangout for 2017!

The launch of BigDataEurope’s open-source Integrator Platform earlier this month was the culmination of over two years’ development and testing.

The Big Data Europe Integrator Platform (BDI) allows a unified view of heterogeneous data for more efficient processing, analysis and integration without having to worry about native installations of a variety of tools for data processing at scale. BDI has exciting implications for application in the transport and mobility sector.

In a webinar entitled ‘Empowering Mobility Management with Big Data’ we will demonstrate the value of the Platform in the domain of Smart, Green, and Integrated Transport by showcasing the progress during the last few months of BigDataEurope’s Thessaloniki-based SC4 pilot. The webinar will combine a presentation of algorithms and a live demo of the pilot to provide a status update of the latest developments. 

Agenda: Empowering Mobility Management with Big Data

• Simon Scerri – Fraunhofer IAIS (10 mins)

Introduction to the BigDataEurope project and an overview of the Big Data Integrator Platform   

• Josep Maria Salanova – CERTH (15 mins)

The mobility use case in Thessaloniki

• Luigi Selmi – Fraunhofer IAIS (20 mins)

Technologies and applications – Live Demo of Pilot

• Conclusions and Q&A (15 mins)

We look forward to your participation!

• WHAT: Webinar: Empowering Mobility Management with Big Data
• WHEN: June 14, 11.30 am – 12.30 pm
• WHO: Luigi Selmi (Fraunhofer IAIS), Simon Scerri (Fraunhofer IAIS), Josep Maria Salanova (CERTH)
• HOW: Register here
• WHY: Find out about BigDataEurope’s Integrator Platform with a status update of the Transport Challenge’s pilot work on streaming sensor network and geospatial data integration using the BDI. See a live demo of our latest work at the pilot site in Thessaloniki.

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We’re excited to see the countdown to our platform launch!

Mark your calendar for Wednesday 3 May 15:00 Central European Summer Time and join us for our biggest Webinar yet (90 minutes) when the technical team will be setting out what the Big Data Europe Integrator Platform can do, how it does it, and how you can use it to derive more value from your data.

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