Evaluating the Open Source Data Containers for Handling Big Geospatial Raster Data

Towards Open Big Geospatial Data for geodata.gov.gr

Open data provided by the public sector constitute a significant opportunity for growth. PublicaMundi (http://publicamundi.eu) is an EU FP7-ICT project aiming to make open geospatial data easier to discover, reuse, and share by fully supporting their complete publishing lifecycle in open data catalogues. To achieve this, PublicaMundi extends and integrates leading open source software for open ...

Geospatial Big Data: Challenges and Opportunities

A Study of Data Management Technology for Handling Big Data

The amount of data is increasing daily. Data requires storage and effective processing for information retrieval. These both are challenge in case of the BigData due its velocity, variety and volume. It requires different management and efficient information retrieval schemes. There are different techniques available for the management of the Bigdata. The distribution of the storage and the pro...

Reframing Open Big Data

Recent developments in the techniques and technologies of collecting, sharing and analysing data are challenging the field of information systems (IS) research let alone the boundaries of organizations and the established practices of decision-making. Coined ‘open data’ and ‘big data’, these developments introduce an unprecedented level of societal and organizational engagement with the potenti...

Teaching Big Data and Open Source Software on Chameleon Cloud

Project CH-818664, KVM: This paper reports on the experience that we gained form using chameleon cloud as part of a course on Big Data and Open Source Software. The course had 62 registered users and used 91% of its allocation with 18195 SUs. The course studies software used in many commercial activities related to Big Data. The backdrop for course contains more than 370 software subsystems fro...