NOSQL-NET 2016 - 3rd International Workshop on Emerging Database Technologies and Linked Data Applications

In the last few years, NoSQL databases, main memory databases and stream data management as well as RDF-based technologies have matured enough, so that the Gartner, Inc., the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, has identified them as the top technology trends that will play key roles in modernizing information management in 2013 and beyond. Thus it is natural that a ‘Emerging Database Technologies and Linked Data Applications' workshop is organized in conjunction with the DEXA conference, one of the oldest conferences for intelligent information management. As in the previous two years, the workshop welcomes submissions covering technological advances as well as industrial or scientific applications of novel data management technologies. A major focus will be given this year to semantic technologies based on the Linked Data paradigm.
The term Linked Data refers to a set of best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the Web. The Linked Data principles provide a basis for realizing the Web of Data, or Semantic Web envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee in 2001. Since then, numerous standard technologies have been developed and adopted for building innovative applications in domains such as government services, geographical information systems, emergency services, tourism, etc.
Semantic approach to publishing and sharing information (based on the Linked Data paradigm) is already recognized and recommended in European strategic documents (e.g. the Guidelines on recommended standard licences, datasets and charging for the re-use of documents, 2014/C 240/01, related to the revised European Directive on the Public Sector Information, 2013/37/EU). RDF, the Resource Description Framework, is one of the key ingredients of Linked Data, and provides a generic graph-based data model for describing things, including their relationships with other things.
The new research challenges, that will be addressed in this workshop, are related to:
the emerging methods and techniques leveraged in NoSQL databases,
the emerging database technologies and applications (mobile databases, multimedia databases, geographical information systems, biological / bioinformatics databases, sensor data management),
the emerging pan-European data infrastructure that will enable interoperability, interlinking and reuse of open data in public and also commercial services,
the NoSQL advantages in Social networking and Semantic Web applications,
the need for enhanced security in the forthcoming business models (e-government, e-commerce),
the alternative technologies for solving different Big Data workload?related problems.