Big Data Curation

A new mode of inquiry, problem solving, and decision making has become pervasive in our society, consisting of applying computational, mathematical, and statistical models to infer actionable information from large quantities of data. This paradigm, often called Big Data Analytics or simply Big Data, requires new forms of data management to deal with the volume, variety, and velocity of Big Data. Many of these data management problems can be described as data curation. Data curation includes all the processes needed for principled and controlled data creation, maintenance, and management, together with the capacity to add value to data. In this talk, I describe our experience in curating some open data sets. I overview how we have adapted some of the traditional solutions for aligning data and creating semantics to account for (and take advantage of) Big Data.