This workshop of the Big Data Europe (BDE, http://www.big-data-europe.eu) project is workshop #2 for Societal Challenge 6 (SC6) that is about Social Sciences and Digital Humanties. The BDE team will introduce the project (status) to the participants and SC6 best practise examples for Big Data will be presented. Then the BDE team explains and demonstrates the Big Data Europe Aggregator Platform to the audience and will answer arising questions. Furthermore the SC6 Pilot: Citizens Budget on Municipal Level - that is built on the BDE Platform - will be demonstrated and discussed with participants. Finally allparticipants are invited to bring up SC6 big data use cases and examples and to discuss current challenges and requirements in efficient data management for SC6.

Agenda (in progress)

• Welcome and introduction (Big Data Europe) - Ivana Versic (Cessda)
• Big Data Europe (BDE): Empowering People with Data Technologies - Sören Auer or Simon Scerri (Fraunhofer IAIS)
• The BDE Platform - Martin Kaltenböck (SWC)
• Insight into Virtual Currency Transaction Networks (by making use of Big data technology) - Bernhard Haslhofer (Austrian Institute of Technology, AIT) -
• Citizens Budget on municipal level, a BDE Pilot - Michalis Vafopoulos (NCSR Demokritos)
• Coffee Break
• BDE SC6: Pilot & Demo (Ivana Versic & Martin Kaltenböck)
• Interactive Session: on the Pilot demo, on participants use cases, on overall big data requirements
• Summary & Closing