[OpenSpending] Fwd: FP7 research project on Big Data

Wed Dec 5 18:42:56 UTC 2012

Dear all,

Does anyone on this list use Big Data as part of their work on
Financial transparency? Does the size of the data which we work with
(sometimes many millions of rows) count?

OKFN-De are engaged in a Big data research project and want to hear
from us on whether there is anything they should be looking into.
Would love to hear from you,

Lucy

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Eva Panek <eva.panek at okfn.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 8:43 AM
Subject: FP7 research project on Big Data
To: lucy.chambers at okfn.org, maurizio.napolitano at okfn.org,
pieter.colpaert at okfn.org
Cc: Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>, Pablo Mendes
<pablomendes at gmail.com>

Dear WG-Coordinator,

OKF Germany is engaged in an FP7 research project (Grant agreement
no.: 318062) called BIG - Big Data Public Private Forum. [1]

The aim of the project is to understand the specific needs from
various stakeholders in various sectors such as public sector, energy
and transport, finance and insurance, telco, media and entertainment
and to establish best practices in the domains of data acquisition, -
analysis, - curation, - storage and - usage. Based on this
understanding the project aims to a) build a big data community in
Europe, b) develop a consolidated roadmap for policy formulation and
the commission's investments in research and innovation in the field
of big data. The outcomes of this project will be used as input for
Horizon 2020, the EU framework programme for research and innovation.
[2]

As one of our tasks is to consolidate the research roadmaps, which
will be developed in the individual technical working groups, we are
very interested to learn what big data means to you in terms of your
field of research and project activity.

Big Data is a nascent topic, and still requires a more mature
understanding before moving into the space of well understood
problems. Therefore, there is an opportunity to build upon your
experiences in your WG, as well as use the work in BIG to deepen the
understanding of Big Data problems in your area.

We could use this opportunity to sharpen our approach to the project
with respect to the possible synergies it could have for the work OKF
is doing.

In order to do so, we would like to ask you a few questions:

Does your WG deal with data that is challenging due to volume (you
have too much data), variety (you have too many sources of data) or
speed (data comes at you too fast) and hence are interested in the
research activities and outcomes of BIG?

Which of BIG’s technical groups (acquisition, storage, analysis,
curation and usage) or sectors (public sector, energy and transport,
finance and insurance, telco, media and entertainment) are
particularly interesting for your WG?

Are there currently any WG-research projects that have a direct or
indirect connection to Big Data and that could capitalize from the
research results?

Which eu-policies would be favourable for the WGs in the field of Big
Data? Is it possible to give the roadmap a shift towards these
preferences?

Since we are interested in a first assessment from the WG on how
relevant this topic might be for them and their work, we are
contacting you as the coordinator of the WG first. If you think this
is relevant for your WG we would be happy to hear your feedback and
proposals. Also, we would be delighted to send the questions to the
rest of the WG.

We will subsequently extend an invitation to you and to any interested
parties in the WG to join the discussions in the BIG project and to
help steer the discussion towards topics that are important to your
OKF WG.

Best regards

Eva Panek

1. http://www.big-project.eu/

2. http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/

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