Introduction
There are numerous resources available to assist you in making sense of the big data environment. Some of the major emerging issues with getting data resources to work together successfully are being addressed by standard organisations. Open source offers can make it simple to experiment with big data and better understand what's possible. There are numerous big data conferences and research groups available. Of course, all of the market's vendors are happy to offer their research, white papers, and best practices. In this blog, we'll provide you with some suggestions for resources that can assist you.
Standards Organisations
Standards are essential for big data to mature. Several organisations are working hard to bring vendors together to speed up the process. Some of these organisations are described in the following sections.
The Open Data Foundation
The Open Data Foundation (ODF) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to encouraging the adoption of global metadata standards and the development of open source for statistical data use. The group works to improve metadata in economics, finance, healthcare, education, labour, social science, technology, agriculture, development, and the environment.
The Cloud Security Alliance
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) was founded to advocate the use of best practices for providing and assuring security in cloud computing, as well as to educate people about cloud computing's usage in order to help protect all other types of computing. The organisation formed the Big Data Working Group (BDWG) to assist in the identification of scalable approaches for data-centric security and privacy challenges in big data.
Source: Cloud Security Alliance
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST is a government institution in the United States that focuses on developing new standards. This group has spent a lot of time identifying and disseminating helpful knowledge on topics ranging from cloud computing to big data. NIST launched a big data program in March 2012. The new initiative's goal is to assist organisations in transforming their ability to use big data for scientific discovery, environmental and medicinal research, education, and national security. It will host a big data workshop in collaboration with the National Science Foundation's Centre for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research (CHMPR).
Among the topics to be addressed are:
- Core technologies that are state-of-the-art for collecting, storing, preserving, managing, analysing, and sharing big data that could benefit from standardisation.
- Measurements that could be taken to ensure the accuracy and robustness of procedures that use these technologies
Apache Software Foundation
The Apache Software Foundation supports a wide range of open-source software projects with organisational, legal, and financial support. It was created in 1999 as a membership-based, non-profit organisation to assure that Apache projects would continue to exist even if individual volunteers stopped participating. Hadoop management is one of the organisation's primary projects.
It provides an open-source software library that serves as a standards-based framework for processing massive data volumes across multiple machines in a cluster.
OASIS
OASIS, the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, is one of the most prominent standards bodies. It's a non-profit organisation that focuses on big data standards. Although this process is still in its early stages, we expect the organisation to begin focusing on developing big data standards.
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