BISEDASH letter of support

Hi!

We are writing an EC Horizon 2020 proposal under Big Data Research that is called BISEDASH (Big Semantic Data Shapes) and is centered around RDF Shapes.
We'll develop open source tools for:
- efficient SHACL validation on big data (out of memory repos).
   Hopefully merge RDFUnit and TQ SHACL and improve them significantly.
   Implement SHACL core in optimized Java (for Jena and Sesame).
  Devise some "SPARQL pipelining" to avoid firing millions of small queries.
- a Big Data Quality System for tracking issues ("Jira for data") and data quality analytics (ala SonarCube for software; see Europeana Data Quality Framework)
- semantic modeling (search "RDF by Example"), shape concise syntax and generation from examples,
- SHACL extensions for generating ETL (R2RML, a bit of Virtual access / OBDA, maybe also XSPARQL & TARQL),
- generating artefacts from shapes: APIs, JSONLD frames and contexts, Object-RDF Mapper POJOs
- SHACL extensions for declarative UIs ("SHUIL") and implement such UIs (think VocBench3 and RDForms on steroids)
- declarative data visualization (graphs and charts) and RDF/shape based editors for such visualizations
- some research ideas like shape induction from data & crowdsourcing, machine learning of fix/suggestion actions
- Standardize as much of this as possible (write proper Working Notes, not the heavier process)

We'll also integrate those tools into ONTO and TQ products; and integrate between ONTO and TQ products.

The consortium includes:
- Ontotext, TopQuadrant, Uni Leipzig INFAI AKSW, Uni Roma Tor Vergata (VocBench), GWDG (implemented Europeana data quality framework)
- business case partners: Siemens, Springer Nature, Wolters Kluwer, Europeana.

It would be very useful if you can send a support letter stating that you are interested in the results of the BISEDASH project, and SHACL is applicable in your semantic validation and data flows.
The letter is free form. Say who you are, what you do with sem tech & SHACL, and that you're interested in BISEDASH results.
That doesn't represent any commitment, just support.

If you agree:  please print it on your letterhead, sign it, scan it and send it to vladimir.alexiev@ontotext.com BEFORE April 25 at noon.
If you want to support us but can't be bothered with the bureaucracy, just reply here: we'll add a link to these responses in the proposal.

If you also want to sit on our Advisory Board, write to Christian.Dirschl@wolterskluwer.com. 
The duties are light: some conference calls a couple times per year, perhaps attend a project Workshop (the project could pay the trip).

I got some excellent responses from big industry (commodity information provider), government (cadaster agency), archives/cultural heritage...
Needless to say, support from W3C will be HIGHLY VALUABLE (Sandro, hint hint).
And if one of the ShEx people can say a good word, that would be super (refreshed myself on ShEx 2.0, you guys are amazing!)

Thank you very much in advance!
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Vladimir Alexiev, PhD, PMP
Lead, Innovation and Consulting
Ontotext Corp, www.ontotext.com
Email: vladimir.alexiev@ontotext.com, skype:valexiev1  
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Received on Thursday, 20 April 2017 18:03:57 UTC