Optique Demo presented at Major International Conference

In time for the 2013 edition of the prestigious ISWC, the International Semantic Web Conference, that took pace in Sidney, Australia, on 21–25 October, the Optique project produced a demo that shows how the components integrated into the Optique platform provide an end-to-end connection from relational data sources at the back-end to a visual query interface at the front.

Videos of the demo are available in an Optique YouTube channel, or simply watch them here:

Part 1: Introduction

Part 2: System Overview

Part 3: Query Formulation

Part 4: Installation Wizard, Bootstrapping

Part 4.1: Installation Wizard, Mapping Editor

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How much time is spent searching for data?

Engineers in industry spend a significant amount of their time searching for data that they require for their core taks. E.g., in the oil&gas industry, 30–70% of engineers time is spent looking for and assessing the quality of data. (Crompton, 2008)

How much value could be created in that time?

Numbers provided by Optique partners Siemens and Statoil suggest that Optique could free up a substantial amount of expert time annually in these two companies alone. The potential benefit from a more effective analysis of the data will be even higher.

Optique: a paradigm shift for data access

The project will provide a semantic end-to-end connection between users and data sources. The Optique platform will feature an intuitive, general, but adaptable end-user interface. Data can be integrated from multiple, also streaming, data sources, with the possibility for large-scale parallel cloud processing and storage.

Optique: a unique combination of technologies

The Optique project brings a unique combination of technologies to bear on Big Data challenges: An end-user-oriented query interface; scalable query rewriting from the end-user to the source vocabulary; temporal and real-time continuous stream processing; scalable storage and query evaluation using elastic clouds.

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Optique: a paradigm shift for data access

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