Big Data Europe: Workshop 3 SC6 Social Science - 11.09.2017 in Amsterdam, co-located with SEMANTiCS2017 titled: THE IMPORTANCE OF METADATA & BIG DATA IN OPEN SCIENCE. Slides by Ivana Versic (Cessda) and Martin Kaltenböck (SWC)

1. BIG DATA EUROPE
THE IMPORTANCE OF METADATA & BIG DATA IN OPEN SCIENCE
- WHERE ARE WE AND WHERE ARE WE GOING TO
3RD SC6 WORKSHOP 11 SEPTEMBER 2017, AMSTERDAM
IVANA ILIJASIC VERSIC (CESSDA ERIC)
Integrating Big Data, Software & Communities for Addressing
Europe’s Societal Challenges
BDE SC6 Workshop

2. Welcome to the last BDE SC6 workshop!
Agenda
13:00 - 13:30 Registration, Snacks and Coffee
13:30 - 13:40 Welcome by Big Data Europe, Ivana Versic (CESSDA ERIC)
13:40 - 14:00 The European Research Data landscape, Peter Doorn (DANS)
14:00 - 14:30 European Open Science Agenda: where we are and where we are going to, Ron Dekker (CESSDA ERIC)
14:30 - 15:00 Fernando Reis, Eurostat big data team (EUROSTAT)
15.00 - 15:30 Open Discussion (with Panel): Metadata and Big Data in OpenScience/Research Infrastructure
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:45 The Big Data Integrator & the BDE Pilots on top, Aad Versteden (TenForce) & Martin Kaltenböck (SWC)
16:45 - 17:00 Outlook Big Data Europe & Fare Well, Ivana Versic (CESSDA ERIC) and Martin Kaltenböck (SWC)
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3. Big Data Europe project
◎ “BigDataEurope - Empowering Communities
with Data Technologies”
◎ 3-year Horizon 2020 CSA project
◎ integrated stack of tools to manipulate, publish
and use large-scale data resources.
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4. 2 CSA measures:
◎ Engaging with a diverse range of stakeholder
groups representing particularly the Horizon
2020 societal challenges
◎ Designing, realizing and evaluating a Big Data
Aggregator platform infrastructure
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5. Rationale
◎ Show societal value of Big Data
◎ Lower barrier for using big data technologies
o Required effort and resources
o Limited data science skills
◎ Help establishing cross-lingual/organizational
/domain Data Value Chains
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6. The three Big Data „V“- Variety often neglected

7. Consortium

8. Pilots: Overview
◎ SC1: Health & Pharm.
◎ SC2: Food & Agr.
◎ SC3: Energy
◎ SC4: Transport
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◎ SC5: Climate
◎ SC6: Social Sciences
◎ SC7: Security

9. CESSDA ERIC
◎ Consortium of Social Science Data Archives
◎ A permanent research infrastructure for delivering
better access to data regardless of data location or
researcher’s location
◎ 15 member countries across EU + 1 observer
◎ Became an ERIC (European Research
Infrastructure Consortium) on 9 June, 2017
(launched on 14 June)
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10. CESSDA ERIC in BDE
◎ Domain representative for Societal Challenge 6 –
Europe in a changing world: innovative, inclusive and
reflective societies
◎ To coordinate the Societal Challenge 6 and potential
users of big data in the fields of social sciences and
humanities (SSH)
◎ To build this interest group, collect requirements, assist
the building big data infrastructure access point for SSH
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11. Semantic Web Company (SWC)
◎ Founded in 2004 - Based in Vienna - Privately held
◎ 40+ employees, experts in text mining & linked data
◎ ~15-20% revenue growth per year
◎ 2.5 Mio Euro funding for R&D in 2017
◎ KMWorld’s says 2016 & 2017: ‘100 Companies
that Matter in Knowledge Management’
◎ Core Product: PoolParty Semantic Suite
o First release in 2009; current version 6.1
o W3C standards compliant
o Over 200 installations world-wide; used as on-premise OR Cloud Service
8-sept.-17https://www.semantic-web.com https://www.poolparty.biz

12. SWC in BDE
◎ Requirements Engineering for Big Data
Integrator (BDI)
◎ Implementation work of BDI; BDE Pilot work
◎ BDE Community Building and Communications
◎ Technical Lead SC6: – Europe in a changing
world: innovative, inclusive and reflective
societies
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13. Announcements & Pointers….
Final Big Data Europe SC6 Webinar: http://bit.ly/2vSrCQj
The importance of Metadata & Big Data in Open Science, Digital Humanities & Research
Infrastructures.
02 November 2017, 15.00pm CET
Big Data Value Forum, Versailles (FR), 21 – 23 November 2017
Info & Register: http://www.european-big-data-value-forum.eu/
LAUNCH of final BDI Version | Meet Big Data Europe there !
Website SC6: http://www.big-data-europe.eu/social-sciences/
Overall & SC6 Mailing List: http://bit.ly/1K3ZnJ2
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigdata_europe @BigData_Europe #BigDataEurope
Slideshare: http://slideshare.net/BigData_Europe
flickR: https://www.flickr.com/photos/133018547@N06/
LinkedIN Group: http://bit.ly/1VO5dow

14. 8-sept.-17www.big-data-europe.eu
◎ CESSDA ERIC, Parkveien 20, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Ivana Ilijasic Versic, ivana.versic@cessda.eu
◎ Semantic Web Company GMBH, Mariahilfer Strasse 70/8, A-1070 Vienna,
Austria
Martin Kaltenböck, m.kaltenboeck@semantic-web.at
Thank you!