From Big Data to Smart Data: Changing Behavior with Online Communication, Anna Fensel

The humanity is rapidly developing and persistently experiencing local and global challenges, such as global warming/climate change, disbalances in demand and supply, reaching efficiency and handling complexity. Mastering most (if not all) of them require a behavior change. At the same time on the technical side, the dramatic growth of data volumes (Big Data) in the infrastructures, the data’s heterogeneity and increased power and impact on the people's daily lives are calling for new methods, practices and policies for data management. Herewith the role of semantic technology becomes even more crucial: particularly, when it comes to providing and sharing a well-defined meaning, reducing complexity, and eventually delivering Smart Data for a functional and fair data value chain. I discuss Smart Data service enablers for interoperation, interactivity and human participation and behavior change, as well as demonstrate them in applications going beyond the current state of the art in the domains of energy efficient smart buildings, and online communication and marketing. In conclusions, I outline some of the data value chain -related challenges for future work.
 

The Bright Future of News Automation, Carl-Gustav Linden

We have all heard about robot journalists coming to take the jobs in newsrooms. However, it should not come as a surprise to anyone that there are no robots moving around in news automation. Instead, we are talking about new software introduced in the newsroom, a process that already has been going on for decades. In his talk, Adjunct Professor Carl-Gustav Lindén from the University of Helsinki (Swedish School of Social Science), will present his experiences of introducing news automation to journalists. He was the manager of the R&D project Immersive Automation (www.immersiveautomation.com) that is now continuing as a European project funded by Horizon 2020. Dr. Lindén will look into the future of news automation where we just have taken the first small steps on a journey towards a software environment that will help journalists with tasks they cannot manage and work they do not want to do.