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The Big Data Value Association advertises and grants the “BDVA i-Space”-label for European Innovation Spaces to help drive forward Big Data adoption across all domains within European industry. Hubs can be granted with the label in the three grades Bronze, Silver and Gold within the following five domains: Excellence of infrastructure, Quality of Services, Projects and sectors, Impact to Eco System and Business model.

ISO 19731:2017 specifies the terms and definitions, as well as the service requirements, for organizations and professionals such as service providers who conduct digital analytics and web analyses for collecting, analysing and reporting of digital data for purposes of market, opinion and social research.

Smart Start is an innovative programme that started in the province of North-Brabant in the Netherlands in 2017 with the goal of jointly developing a preventive approach to arrive at beneficial childhood experiences that allow children to grow up safely and child-friendly.

The Aragon Open Data initiative started in 2012 by the Aragon Government. It is a portal where open data are shown in reusable format with the main objective of being used by other people or companies to develop software and services for citizens, thus creating economic wealth through the reuse of information and the fostering of transparency.

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is part of the European Cloud Initiative aiming a competitive data and knowledge economy in Europe. It functions as a virtual environment with open and seamless services for storage, management, analysis and re-use of research data, across borders and scientific disciplines by federating existing scientific data infrastructures.

Galileo is the European Union's Global Satellite Navigation System (GNSS). Sometimes called the ’European GPS‘, Galileo provides accurate positioning and timing information. Galileo is a programme under civilian control and its data can be used for a broad range of applications. It is autonomous but also interoperable with existing satellite navigation systems. At the moment, the Galileo constellation consists of 24 satellites.

EUMETSAT is the European operational satellite agency for monitoring weather, climate and the environment with the purpose of supplying reliable and accurate weather and climate-related satellite data, images and products – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year – to the National Meteorological Services of the EU Member States and other users worldwide.

EUMETSAT provides data, products and support services to the Copernicus information services and user communities, with a focus on marine, atmosphere and climate.

NodeXL is a data visualisation and analysis software of relationships and networks that provides exact calculations. It is a free (Basic package not the pro one) and open-source network analysis and visualisation software and one of the best statistical tools for data analysis which includes advanced network metrics, access to social media network data streams, sentiment analysis and automation

LiquidFeedback is an open-source software, powering internet platforms for proposition development and decision making. It is designed to work with large groups with real conflicts using strict rules in a predefined process without moderator interference. It is currently used by political parties, associations, corporations and for civic participation. More information can be obtained on the website of Interaktive Demokratie e. V.

Apache Spark™ is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing.