Time to plan for the European Data Forum 2013 in Dublin. The yearly meeting place for industry, research, policy makers, and community initiatives to discuss the challenges and opportunities of (Big) Data in Europe. Free Registration for the European Data Forum 2013 is now open. EDF also invites to submit proposials on to be held presentations addressing fundamental technical, application, socio-economic and policy-related topics related to Big Data management and analytics.

About the EDF

EDF aims to bring together all stakeholders involved in the data value chain to exchange ideas and develop actionable roadmaps addressing these challenges and opportunities in order to strengthen the European data economy and its positioning worldwide. The roadmaps will be offered as a contribution to the definition of research, development, and policy activities at the level of the European Union institutions and those of its member states. This years  edition of the EDF will be held in Dublin, Ireland on April 9-10, 2013. The program will consist of a mixture of presentations and networking sessions by industry, academics, policy makers, and community initiatives on topics ranging from research and technology development, to training and knowledge transfer, and commercialization. The EDF series is a joint activity of  the EC FP7 projects BIG, LOD2,  PlanetData, and TELEIOS, and is supported by the European Commission.

At a glance

Come to Dublin, Ireland
April 9 and  10, 2013

Register now for free
Event if this event is without sign-up fees, we ask for registration for planning purposes

Submit a presentation
The deadline for submissions is: 22nd Feb 2013, 02.00pm CET

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The annual Confluence & Jira Community Day for the German-speaking area (organised by Communardo Software GmbH) took place last week in the Haus am Domplatz in Frankfurt. Dirk Röhrborn (CEO Communardo) opened with an interesting keynote about agile processes in organisation and pointed out historical and modern implications. Sven Peters then outlined the passion as key and driving force to successfully develop software at Atlassian.

Best practice presentations then gave an insight into the diversity of application possibilities of Confluence and Jira, from project management via finding suitable suppliers to the implementation of knowledge management projects. The Semantic Web Company presented with PowerTagging for Confluence a brandnew addon for improved label management. The visitors were thrilled with the opportunity to optimize the search in Confluence, using semi-automatic annotation of wiki pages. In discussions it became clear that the demand for strong enterprise-wide search capabilities increases as companies have different systems (CMS, DMS, ERP) and content pools in use. The Semantic Web Company realized Enterprise Search and provides with the thesaurus-based approach not only a lightweight, fast knowledge model to be realized, but also comprehensive semantic search capabilities.

An open space for exchanging experiences with Confluence and Jira rounded off the event. Thank you very much at this point to Communardo for organising this great day and see you next year!