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The meaningful use of big data: four perspectives -- four challenges

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Twenty-five Semantic Web and Database researchers met at the 2011 STI Semantic Summit in Riga, Latvia July 6-8, 2011[1] to discuss the opportunities and challenges posed by Big Data for the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and Database communities. The unanimous conclusion was that the greatest shared challenge was not only engineering Big Data, but also doing so meaningfully. The following are four expressions of that challenge from different perspectives.

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        cover image ACM SIGMOD Record
        ACM SIGMOD Record  Volume 40, Issue 4
        December 2011
        60 pages
        ISSN:0163-5808
        DOI:10.1145/2094114
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