"Big Data Public Private Forum (BIG) is working towards the definition and implementation of a clear strategy that tackles the necessary efforts in terms of research and innovation, while also it provides a major boost for technology adoption and supporting actions for the successful implementation of the Big Data economy."
"Data Science Central is the industry's online resource for big data practitioners. From Analytics to Data Integration to Visualization, Data Science Central provides a community experience that includes a robust editorial platform, social interaction, forum-based technical support, the latest in technology, tools and trends and industry job opportunities."
a lot of buzz around Data Portability those days but I'm afraid that it will result in no-ending discussions with nothing concrete in a near future. I hope I'm wrong and I totally respect all those peoples way smarter than me which represent Big Actors of our actual Giant Global Graph. Besides that, my main priority is not data portability but data ownership, once we've got the power data we'll see how to share this with other applications and how to deal with privacy.
"HOBBIT aims at abolishing the barriers in the adoption and deployment of Big Linked Data by European companies, by means of open benchmarking reports that allow them to assess the fitness of existing solutions for their purposes. These benchmarks are based on data that reflects reality and measures industry-relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with comparable results using standardized hardware."
"HOBBIT aims at abolishing the barriers in the adoption and deployment of Big Linked Data by European companies, by means of open benchmarking reports that allow them to assess the fitness of existing solutions for their purposes. These benchmarks are based on data that reflects reality and measures industry-relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with comparable results using standardized hardware."
Treo: Schema-agnostic queries over databases
Treo is a Semantic Search and Question Answering System for Databases. Treo is designed to cope with the Big Data vision of handling very heterogeneous (schemaless) databases, a scenario where it becomes unfeasible for data consumers to understand the representation of the data in order to query the database.
"Our goal at Semantic University is to make it easy for anyone to get started with Semantic Web technologies and methodologies. The content starts from the beginning, introduces vocabulary and concepts with each lesson and offers hands-on training online. However, we're not going to stop with beginner material. We provide comprehensive training and documentation of Semantic Web technologies. We include comparisons with other, modern data trends, including NoSQL databases and big data systems."