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Project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (2014 – 2020)
Support Action
Big Data Europe – Empowering Communities with Big
Data Technologies Project Number: 644564
Start Date of Project: 01/01/2015
Duration: 36 months
Deliverable 2.11 Report on Community Building Activities III
Dissemination Level Public
Due Date of Deliverable M36, 31.12.2017
Actual Submission Date M37, 05.02.2018
Work Package WP2, Community Building & Requirements
Task T2.1
Type Report
Approval Status Approved
Version 0.3
Number of Pages 18
Filename D.2.11_Report on Community Building Activities III.pdf
Abstract: This Report summarizes the Community Building Activities undertaken during the third year of the project. Furthermore a categorization of all related activities is provided in two sections, i.e. BDE Community Management and Community Building Tools and Initiatives, respectively.
The information in this document reflects only the author’s views and the European Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. The information in this document is provided “as is” without guarantee or warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the fitness of the information for a particular purpose. The user thereof uses the information at his/ her sole risk and liability.
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History
Version Date Reason Revised by
0.1 15.12.2017 Initial Content Provision Simon Scerri (FhG)
0.2 30.01.2017 Completion of Content with input from WP2 members
Simon Scerri (FhG)
0.3 02.02.2017 Content Review WP2 members
1.0 05.02.2017 Final Version Alexandra Garatzogianni (FhG)
Author List
Organisation Name Contact Information
Fraunhofer Simon Scerri [email protected]
Fraunhofer Alexandra Garatzogianni [email protected]
SWC Thomas Thurner [email protected]
Open PHACTS
Kiera McNeice [email protected]
VU Victor de Boer [email protected]
FAO Antonella Picarella [email protected]
AgroKnow Panagiotis Zervas [email protected]
CRES Fragiskos Mouzakis [email protected]
NCSR-D Iraklis Angelos Klampanos [email protected]
NCSR-D Spyros Andronopoulos [email protected]
ERTICO Zane Mezdreija [email protected]
CESSDA Ivana Ilijasic Versic [email protected]
SatCen Sergio Albani [email protected]
SatCen Michele Lazzarini [email protected]
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Executive Summary
In this deliverable we outline the Community Building efforts, corresponding to the third year
of the project, continuing the strategy outlined in Deliverable 2.1: Community Building,
Coordination and Planning and the first and second year efforts reported in Deliverable 2.3:
Report on Community Building Activities I, Deliverable 2.10: Report on Community Building
Activities II. The activities carried out in 2017 are once more categorised under two sections,
each of which provides information and statistics that give an indication of the extending
network and communities for each of the seven societal challenge domains.
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Abbreviations and Acronyms
SC Societal Challenge
EC European Commission
RE Requirement Elicitation
RS Requirement Specification
WP Work Package
BDE Big Data Europe
BDI Big Data Integrator
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Table of Contents 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................. 6
2 BDE Community Management ................................................................................ 8
2.1 Stakeholder Community Management ............................................................... 8
2.2 Stakeholder Community Building Progress ....................................................... 9
3 Community Building Tools & Initiatives .................................................................. 11
3.1 Networking efforts at 2017 BDE Workshops .................................................... 11
3.2 Engagement through Online Hangouts ............................................................ 11
3.3 Engagement through Online Technical Webinars ........................................... 13
3.4 Community Building via other Synchronous Engagement ............................... 16
3.5 Community Building through Asynchronous Engagement ............................... 18
4. Summary .............................................................................................................. 18
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1. Introduction
In the third year of the project, the BDE WP2 shifted focus from extending the seven societal
communities established in the first two years, to strengthening the level of engagement in
terms of disseminating project results to the established stakeholders. Nevertheless, the
stakeholder communities grew, under the societal partners that continued to act as key
umbrella organisations in their respective domain. Aside from organising workshops,
conferences and other events they were also the contact point for engaging stakeholders in
project activities, which in the last year of the project consisted of:
● Networking at events, identifying stakeholders and inviting them to become BDE
stakeholders.
● Maintaining stakeholder interest through regular publishing of relevant activities and
material through the dedicated Societal sections1 in the website.
● Promotion of yearly workshops and networking with participants.
● Promotion of monthly hangouts (domain-oriented, informational).
● Promotion of technical (SC-independent) webinars (3 in 2017).
● Main focus of 2017: Showcasing pilot progress for the seven pilots, obtaining feedback
for their improvement between the second and last (third) phase, and continuing to
promote external adoption by interested stakeholders as additional applications of the
BDI platform.
Specific information about these activities is included in the rest of this deliverable.
1 https://www.big-data-europe.eu/sc-networks/
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Table 1: Technical and domain leads for each of the 7 societal challenge areas (as of
Month 36)
Societal Challenge Chairs (Technical, Domain)
Healthcare Leading partner: Open PHACTS
Technical Victor de Boer (VU)
Domain Kiera McNeice (Open PHACTS)
Food & Agriculture Leading partner: FAO
Technical Pythagoras Karampiperis (Agro-Know)
Domain Antonella Picarella (FAO/GFAR) & Panagiotis Zervas (Agroknow)
Energy Leading partner: CRES and NCSR-D
Technical John Vlachos (CRES)
Domain
Fragiskos Mouzakis & Andreas Androutopoulos & Stathis Tselepis
(CRES)
Intelligent Transport Leading partner: Fraunhofer , entity to be subcontracted
Technical Luigi Selmi (Fraunhofer) & Josep Maria Salanova (CERTH)
Domain Maxime Flament & Zane Mezdreija (ERTICO)
Climate &
Environment Leading partner: NCSR-D
Technical Iraklis Klampanos (NCSR-D)
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Domain Spyros Andronopoulos (NCSR-D)
Inclusive &
Reflective Societies Leading partner: CESSDA
Technical Martin Kaltenböck (SWC) & Hossein Abroshan (CESSDA)
Domain Ivana Ilijasic Versic (CESSDA)
Secure Societies Leading partner: EU SatCen
Technical Manolis Koubarakis & George Papadakis & Giorgos Arguriou (UoA)
Domain Sergio Albani & Michele Lazzarini (EU SatCen)
2 BDE Community Management
2.1 Stakeholder Community Management
The primary dissemination and community activities continued to be coordinated over the
stakeholder mailing lists established by the consortium members covering the 7 SC domains.
The lists have been updated until the end of the project. Stakeholders who exhibited an
increase their engagement level with the project (e.g., influencing technical or pilot efforts,
participating in community activities, providing feedback, trying the BDI platform, or otherwise
engaging with the project team’s efforts) have been appropriately marked with a higher
engagement level as defined in Deliverable 2.1 (Community Building, Coordination and
Planning).
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Although the W3C project page still remains2, it mostly serves as another contact point for new
and existing stakeholders to reach the BDE technical team. However, as reported in previous
deliverable, this page (or the 7 distinct ones preceding it) did not meet the popularity or level-
of-use expected, and most of the project’s SC-specific communications are channeled via the
7 SC pages on the project’s website. Technical issues relating to the BDI platform or individual
pilots, have mainly been raised and handled through the project’s Git page3.
2.2 Stakeholder Community Building Progress
In the last year of the project the stakeholder identification exercise continued, but focused
primarily increasing the rate of engagement of existing stakeholders, rather than on substantial
increase in size of the communities. Below, we give an update of the societal communities at
the end of the project, in terms of their size and their engagement level. For convenience, we
reproduce the engagement level classification (based on the multi-level engagement
categories defined in D2.1, Section 4.2) below:
● Observers (Stakeholders with a general, non-committal but confirmed interest in the
project’s contributions)
● Followers (Stakeholders that subscribe to notifications, activities and publications by
the consortium)
● Endorsers (Stakeholders that forward project contributions, notifications, activities and
publications amongst their extended networks)
● Contributors (Stakeholders that attend project activities, contribute to discussions,
problem identification, requirements elicitation)
● Owners (Stakeholders that are involved in the projects activities, including participating
in pilots, prototype trials and who provide continuous feedback)
● Leaders (Only BDE Reps are the leaders for their SC, so this does not apply to
stakeholders)
2 https://www.w3.org/community/bde/ 3 https://github.com/big-data-europe/README/wiki
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The table below summarizes the amount of stakeholders contacted (and the total count initially
targeted in D2.1). The total at M24 stands at 1755 (87% of the targeted 2020) up from 1633
(81%) at the end of M24 and 1021 (51%) at the end of M12. The distribution of stakeholders
with a higher level of engagement is also reported (In addition to the BDE list, the SC4 domain
leaders maintain their own internal ERTICO lists, and the distribution of the stakeholders with
a higher level of engagement has not been recorded). The SC lists maintained are stored on
the MailChimp service, and only a subset of WP2 members have access. The lists have not
been used for any non-project related matter.
Table 2: Stakeholder Community Size (Month 37) and Engagement Level
Societal Challenge HEALTH FOOD ENERGY TRANSPORT CLIMATE SOCIETIES SECURITY MISC.
Total Stakeholders:
M12
M24
M36
(Original Target M36)
155
151
154
(360)
141
197
239
(290)
147
204
202
(270)
237
335
379
(345)
146
221
231
(275)
108
167
212
(235)
121
167
377
(245)
-
20
27
Progress (w.r.t Target) 43% 82% 75% 110% 84% 90% 154% -
Stakeholders with a
lower level of
engagement *
146 200 179 - 186 154 320 17
Stakeholders with a
higher level of
engagement **
8 39 23 - 45 58 67 10
* A lower-level of engagement refers to Observers and Followers
** A higher-level of engagement refers to Endorsers, Contributors and Owners
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3 Community Building Tools & Initiatives
3.1 Networking efforts at 2017 BDE Workshops
The strongest community activities in 2017 once again revolved around networking in the 7
yearly workshops. In this last series of workshops, existing contacts were strengthened and
new ones were sought to contribute to the discussions. The engagement level of workshop
attendees was promoted to contributors (level 4), and repeat attendees and stakeholders who
provided repeated feedback on pilot use-case progress were promoted to owners (level 5).
More information about the Workshops, including the interactive sessions held, has been
provided in Deliverables 2.8 (Report on Interest Groups Workshops V) and 2.9 (Report on
Interest Groups Workshops VI).
3.2 Engagement through Online Hangouts
In 2017, WP2 members organised a total of 12 Hangouts. These were promoted through the
seven SC communities by means of invitations to the stakeholder lists, as well as via the
newsletter and the SC pages on the project Website. The hangouts were increasingly
orientated towards the pilot results, with a large subset of them dedicated to the results of the
second and last phase of pilot progress. As in the first two years, attendees were given the
opportunity to engage with the organisers, provide feedback, raise concerns and ask
questions. Feedback was taken into account for the last pilot phase and also the final BDI
platform.
A good portion of the hangouts have been recorded and are publicly available online, thus
extending and multiplying their value beyond the actual event. Information about the individual
hangouts (including links to their reports) is provided in the table below.
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Table 3: SC Hangouts organised in 2017
SC Title More information Participants
SC1.H4 OpenPHACTS Re-engineered with Big
Data Europe
Event Description
Report
22
SC1.H5 SC1 Hangout: Updating public databases:
Automation and other challenges for
consumers and creators
Event Description
Report not
available
19
SC2.H4 Webinar@AIMS: How much data is
enough in Precision Agriculture?
Event Description
Report
17
SC2.H5 Big Data Europe Platform presented to
the agricultural research environment
Event Description
Report
9
SC4.H5 Empowering Mobility Management with
Big Data
Event Description
Report
20+
SC4.H6 SC4 Final Hangout: The Way Forward for
Big Data in Transport
Event Description
Report not
available by
deliverable
submission
(Hangout took
place M37)
Not available
SC5.H4 SC5 hangout: Inverse estimation of
atmospheric pollutant emissions using Big
Event Description
Screencast
8 (Report)
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Data technologies Report not
available
SC6.H4 Insight into Virtual Currency Ecosystems
by making use of Big Data Technology
Event Description
Report
15
SC6.H5 European Open Science Agenda: Quo
Vadis?
Event Description
Report
21
SC6.H6 From Big Data to Trusted Smart Statistics Event Description
Report
40
SC7.H4 Big Data for Secure Societies Webinar
(4th)
Event Description
Report
40
SC7.H5 Big Data for Secure Societies Webinar
(5th)
Event Description
Report
10
3.3 Engagement through Online Technical Webinars
In 2017 three technical Webinars were organised: 2 dedicated to the launch (intermediary and
final) of the Big Data Integrator (BDI) platform, and one to communicate the existing
collaboration with a Big Data association. A summary of these activities is provided below. A
link to the Webinar content4 is prominently featured under the ‘Events’ tab of the BDE website,
and includes their embedded recording.
Following the BDE material presentation, the Webinars allowed live participants to ask
questions (which other participants could up- and down-vote) which the organising team
answered live. In the table below, we include the list of all Webinars held during the project.
4 https://www.big-data-europe.eu/webinar/
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Table 4: General BDE (Technical) Webinars organised between 2016 and 2017
Webinar Title Description Views (M37)
BDE.W1
(2016)
Big Data and the 7 Societal
Challenges Out-of-the-box technology
for the future
Report
Recording
Q&A Session
751
BDE.W2
(2016)
Getting started with Apache Flink
using the BDE platform
Report
Recording
413
BDE.W3 BDE & BDVA Webinar: Towards a
common vision
Event Description
Report
Recording
86
BDE.W4 BDI Platform Launch Event Description
Press Release
Recording
316
BDE.W5 Final Release of the Big Data Europe
Integrator Platform (BDI)
Event Description
Report
Recording
151
In the table below we summarise the amount of BDE online events organised throughout the
BDE project. In the Description of Work, the BDE consortium aimed to organise 30 such online
activities. Following a distinction between Hangouts (Societal - community interest and pilot
progress) and Webinars (Technical - BDI Platform and BD technical interest) in the first year
of the project, we have separated responsibilities of organisation (SC Hangouts primarily by
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WP2/WP6, General Webinars involved a join inter-WP effort). A total of 38 such activities
exceeded the initially targeted (at least) 30. SC3 community engagement during the last year
was addressed by the presentations in three (3) thematic Energy Big Data fora events (*) with
strong industrial attendance (increasing the number of stakeholders by 145), thus substituting
the delivery of the rest foreseen online hangouts.5
Table 5: Total BDE Online Activities organised
Hangouts Amount (M1-M37)
SC1 5
SC2 5
SC3 2
SC4 6
SC5 4
SC6 6
SC7 5
Webinars (General) 5
Total
(Original Plan)
38
(≥30)
5 (*) a) Presentation in Wind Power Big Data and IoT Forum, Description, Presentation; with 90
attendees b) Presentation in Digital Data Integration & Management, Description, Presentation;
att. 30 and c) Presentation in 4th Edition Wind Power Big Data and IoT Forum Description,
Presentation; att. 100
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3.4 Community Building via other Synchronous Engagement
In the Table below, we provide a summary of the progress update over the original targeted
synchronous engagement measures covered in Sections 3.1 - 3.3.
Table 6: Goals for Synchronous Engagement
Channels Targeted
Engagement
Level Group6
Goal By M12 By M24 By M37
Interest group
face-to-face
workshops
- Endorsers
- Contributors
- Owners
21
(1-2 per year
per SC)
7
(1 per SC)
14
(2 per SC)
21
(3 per SC)
Interest group
calls\Hangouts
- Followers
- Endorsers
- Contributors
- Owners
Original
target: 30
8
19 33
Webinars/Trai
ning Sessions
on platform,
components
and
applications
All
As above 0
2 5
6 Leaders are by default always included since they are part of the consortium.
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In addition to the workshops, online hangouts and webinars, a number of other activities have
taken place where direct interaction with the stakeholders was initiated or sustained. These
activities also elevated the engagement level from observers to followers, endorsers,
contributors and even owners (pilot partners). The most notable secondary activities leading
to community extensions in the last year of the project were the following:
● Pilot Efforts. Pilot efforts, driven by WP6 leads and led by each of the established SC
pilot lead(s) continued as progress transitioned from the second (in some instances the
first) to the third and final phase. A good number of stakeholders have expressed
interest in recreating the demonstrated pilot externally for their own objective and have
been supported by the consortium to maximise the project’s impact.
● ISWC Conference. The sponsorship of this event brought us close to the technical
community, who were particularly interested in the Semantic Data Lake approach
upheld by BDE and the BDI platform. Evidence of this are the two awards that the
project won at the event7. Conference participants provided feedback on the current
platform prototype, and on related research and innovation efforts that are relevant to
the technical community.
● European Data Forum/Big Data Value Association Summit 2017. In this second
major dissemination and networking event (also sponsored by BDE) conference
participants were treated to three BDE project showings. As included in the report8, two
talks in two societal workshops (transport, security) and a talk in the standardisation
session for the BDVA. As in previous years, a very large number of the attendees
expressed interest in the use of the BDI platform for their needs or as a reference
technological base for current or future projects.
7https://www.big-data-europe.eu/bde-at-iswc-2017-a-best-demo-award-and-a-best-demo-peoples-choice-award/ 8 https://www.big-data-europe.eu/bde-ebdvf17-significant-exploitation-dissemination-results-achieved/
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In addition to the major events above, BDE members attended and presented project results
in additional events; reported in Annual Dissemination Report (not public).
3.5 Community Building through Asynchronous Engagement
In Deliverable 2.1 (Community Building, Coordination and Planning) we outlined planned
asynchronous forms of engagement, which also led to the indirect extension of the established
SC-centered communities. These activities include blog posts on the website, newsletters,
Tweets about the project and activities, sharing of recorded hangouts, presentations, photos
and other material; as well as direct emailing with suggested contacts. These activities have
also been reported thoroughly in the Annual Dissemination Report (not public).
4. Summary
In this deliverable we provide a final progress report related to the community building activities
that have taken place throughout the project, with a specific focus on those taking place in the
final 12 months. These activities focused on raising the engagement level of existing
stakeholders in the communities, rather than to considerably extend them. A core means to
achieve this objective was to raise the visibility of the seven SC pilots, following the completion
of the last two phases; to showcase the value of the BDI platform as a flexible, free, open-
source and reusable solution for all kinds of stakeholders. As a result, most of the activities in
WP2 (Community Building and Requirements) have been supported by WP7 (Dissemination
and Exploitation), and the two WPs have worked very closely together in the last year (all
routine internal calls for both WPs in 2017 have been jointly held). As shown through the facts
and statistics in this deliverable, the BDE consortium has reached, and in some cases even
exceeded, the stakeholder and community engagement targets set at the start of the project
to maximise the project’s impact.
