[PRESS RELEASE] Final Release of the Big Data Europe Integrator Platform (BDI)
The Big Data Europe Integrator Platform (BDI) is specifically designed to capture, manage and process the enormous amounts of data being created on a daily basis, with the objective to derive meaningful results and make a difference to people’s lives, solving thus societal challenges by putting cutting edge technology in the hands of experts in fields other than IT. The updated BDI platform now includes a number of additional components and innovative features. Following three years of continuous efforts by our brilliant technical team, BDI offers a production-ready toolchain for big data crunching, using open source tools like Docker and Docker Swarm in order to leverage a modular platform that can be very easily installed and used. As Prof. Dr. Sören Auer, Director of the Technical Information Library (TIB) and Professor of “Data Science and Digital Libraries” at the Leibniz University of Hannover, who serves as Project Coordinator, stated “BDI synergistically integrates technology from the Big Data analytics and semantics technology realms. Especially for the societal challenges not only very large data analysis but also the semantic integration of heterogeneous data assets is of paramount importance”. Dr. Simon Scerri, Deputy Project Coordinator (Fraunhofer IAIS), adds “BDI encapsulates the project’s major technical result: providing a free and flexible big data platform as a standard solution that can be customised to ingest a variety of input data and meet diverse objectives for maximising the value of that data. It therefore single-handedly fulfils one of the project’s initial promises – to reduce the entry barrier of societal stakeholders to big data technology. ” Indeed BDI has been successfully showcased by the seven pilot use-cases, addressing thus the respective 7 Societal Challenges identified by the European Commission. More specifically, work in the Societal Challenge in the domain of Food and Agriculture has focused on the needs of the agri-food community in terms of big data, validating thus BDI in this sector. “BDE creates a very low entry barrier compared to other big data platforms” affirmed Valeria Pesce (FAO). Martin Kaltenbröck (Semantic Web Company) and Ivana Versic (cessda eric) concur: “The joint work on the Big Data Europe project in the area of social science helped us not only to learn and apply big data principles and technologies in our organisations and projects, but also supported us in establishing a stable partnership beyond the project’s duration for our future endeavours”. Dr. Georgia Aifandopoulou (CERTH) announced that “the work in the Societal Challenge of the Transport domain allowed the mobility lab of Thessaloniki to increase its data processing capabilities, mostly the amount of historical data that can be analyzed in short time, having thus a direct impact in the reliability of the traffic status predictions”. In the Societal Challenge “Secure Societies” and more specifically in the “Security” pilot, implemented by SatCen (Domain Leader), the University of Athens (Technical Leader) and NCSR “Demokritos” (Technical Support), a web tool for information extraction from heterogeneous data sources has been developed, which addresses the need expressed by the users to exploit the increasing amount of open data coming from space-based systems and other sources of information (e.g. online news). Therefore it can be deduced that BDI constitutes the ideal solution for all organisations and institutions aiming at advancing society with the innovative use of data, including open data. In order to access more technical info about the platform please click here: https://www.big-data-europe.eu/press-release-final-release-of-the-big-data-europe-integrator-platform-bdi/ You can access the project's agenda and register by clicking here: https://www.big-data-europe.eu/launch/
Keywords
big, data, platform, semantics, health, food, agriculture, energy, transport, climate, social sciences, security
Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom