Yahoo! is promoting a very important initiative toward the democratization of research activities with big data. Such initiative, named Webscope, allows academic researchers to access a bunch of datasets, all of which “reviewed to conform to Yahoo!’s data protection standards” on privacy. Among the available datasets, great space is given to language and graph data, [...]
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SeCo is organizing the First International Workshop on Searching and Integrating New Web Data Sources (VLDS 2011), that will take place on September 2nd, as a satellite event of VLDB 2011 in Seattle, WA, USA. The goal of th workshop is to gather researchers and practitioners in the diverse fields related to data integration and [...]
Prof. Zicari interviewed Dr. Alon Y. Halevy, head of the Structured Data Group at Google Research, on Google Fusion Tables and the importance of large scale data management tools. The full transcript of the interview is available on the ODBMS.org Web site.
Continuum – a project developed and maintained under the Apache umbrella – is a continuous integration server that is fully integrated with many popular build systems (most notably maven2) and supports automated building, testing and releasing of applications. Continuum can be either deployed as a stand-alone server or inside an application container; this tutorial is [...]
