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Computer Scientists' 4-Million-Euro Project Aims to Make Big Data More Productive and Useful
The ALIGNED project aims to make big data more productive and useful.
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Trinity College Dublin researchers are working on aligned, quality-centric software and data engineering (ALIGNED), a Horizon 2020 research project aimed at creating systems that will enable developers to incorporate big data from the Web into a variety of applications.
ALIGNED is expected to boost European information technology industry productivity and competitiveness by providing new tools and techniques to build data-intensive systems on the Web. The researchers say ALIGNED will lay the groundwork for the next generation of big data systems that lower costs and address the challenges of dynamism, complexity, scale, and data inconsistency on the Web.
"ALIGNED is an exciting collaboration between leading computer scientists and innovative European companies poised to increase software development productivity and agility," says Trinity College Dublin researcher Rob Brennan. ALIGNED also will offer consultancy services and advice to European organizations seeking to build data-intensive systems.
"It builds on our collaboration with Leipzig University on Web standardization at the [World Wide Web Consortium] and our key technology role in the ambitious Seshat Global History Databank, which seeks to revolutionize history, archaeology, and social sciences by publishing expert-curated data on the Web for every human society that ever existed," says Trinity College Dublin researcher Kevin Feeney.
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