Proposed Group: Big Data Europe Community Group

The Big Data Europe Community Group has been proposed by Phil Archer:

This is the Community Group established under the BigDataEurope Project, a Coordination and Support Action under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme. The project is building a a powerful, flexible, customizable platform that can handle data ingestion, integration and processing at scale. This can be instantiated and configured as desired, and can include a number of existing datasets as part of the package.

Importantly, the project is running a series of pilots addressing the 7 Societal Challenges identified by the European Commission:

• health, demographic change and wellbeing;
• food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy;
• secure, clean and efficient energy;
• smart, green and integrated transport;
• climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials;
• Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective societies;
• secure societies – protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens.

Information and news about the project, the pilots etc. is available through its own Web site. This Community Group is the place to discuss how Web technologies can be applied to big data, particularly the semantification of data.

The BDE project is also associated with the Permissions & Obligations Expression Working Group.

This single BDE Community Group supersedes and replaces the 7 individual CGs originally set up to cover
health,
food
energy
transport
climate
societies
secure societies

You are invited to support the creation of this group. Once the group has a total of five supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work. In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account.

Once launched, the group will no longer be listed as “proposed”; it will be in the list of current groups.

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on site-comments@w3.org

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team