The European Commission (EU/EC) provides public funding to the project.
The Project Board is the highest authority of Optique and of the consortium.
The Work Package Leader Group is the executive body of the consortium, and is comprised of the Coordinator and the Work Package leaders.
The Advisory Board acts as an external advisory body, connected to the project through the Coordinator.
The Partner Program is responsible for dissemination activities.
The Coordinator communicates with the Commission. The Coordinator function is located with:
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)
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.
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.
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.