SEMDATA · Semantic Data Management

Semantic data management refers to a range of techniques for the manipulation and usage of data basedon its meaning. Semantically enabled linked and open data have been published at an increasing pace inrecent years, and this technology has been adopted by major industrial players, including Google, Yahoo,Oracle, Talis and IBM. But to reach their full potential of becoming a transformative technology enablinga data-driven economy, there are important research challenges related to semantic data, particularlyregarding maturity, dynamicity and the ability to process efficiently huge amounts of interconnectedsemantic data. SemData brings together some of the internationally leading research centres in the area ofmanaging semantic data to address these challenges.