A Distributed and Scalable Solution for Applying Semantic Techniques to Big Data

Big Data ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 1091-1109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alba Amato ◽  
Salvatore Venticinque ◽  
Beniamino Di Martino
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Software Architecture ◽  
Application Domain ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Original Formulation ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Big Data Technologies ◽  
Semantic Techniques

The digital revolution changes the way culture and places could be lived. It allows users to interact with the environment creating an immense availability of data, which can be used to better understand the behavior of visitors, as well as to learn about their thoughts on what the visit creates excitement or disappointment. In this context, Big Data becomes immensely important, making possible to turn this amount of data in information, knowledge, and, ultimately, wisdom. This paper aims at modeling and designing a scalable solution that integrates semantic techniques with Cloud and Big Data technologies to deliver context aware services in the application domain of the cultural heritage. The authors started from a baseline framework that originally was not conceived to scale when huge workloads, related to big data, must be processed. They provide an original formulation of the problem and an original software architecture that fulfills both functional and not-functional requirements. The authors present the technological stack and the implementation of a proof of concept.

A Distributed and Scalable Solution for Applying Semantic Techniques to Big Data

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-67
Author(s):  
Alba Amato ◽  
Salvatore Venticinque ◽  
Beniamino Di Martino
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Software Architecture ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Application Domain ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Original Formulation ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Big Data Technologies ◽  
Semantic Techniques

The digital revolution changes the way culture and places could be lived. It allows users to interact with the environment creating an immense availability of data, which can be used to better understand the behavior of visitors, as well as to learn about their thoughts on what the visit creates excitement or disappointment. In this context, Big Data becomes immensely important, making possible to turn this amount of data in information, knowledge, and, ultimately, wisdom. This paper aims at modeling and designing a scalable solution that integrates semantic techniques with Cloud and Big Data technologies to deliver context aware services in the application domain of the cultural heritage. The authors started from a baseline framework that originally was not conceived to scale when huge workloads, related to big data, must be processed. They provide an original formulation of the problem and an original software architecture that fulfills both functional and not-functional requirements. The authors present the technological stack and the implementation of a proof of concept.

scholarly journals Big Data Analytics for Search Engine Optimization

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis C. Drivas ◽  
Damianos P. Sakas ◽  
Georgios A. Giannakopoulos ◽  
Daphne Kyriaki-Manessi
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Data Types ◽  
Search Engine Optimization ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Web

In the Big Data era, search engine optimization deals with the encapsulation of datasets that are related to website performance in terms of architecture, content curation, and user behavior, with the purpose to convert them into actionable insights and improve visibility and findability on the Web. In this respect, big data analytics expands the opportunities for developing new methodological frameworks that are composed of valid, reliable, and consistent analytics that are practically useful to develop well-informed strategies for organic traffic optimization. In this paper, a novel methodology is implemented in order to increase organic search engine visits based on the impact of multiple SEO factors. In order to achieve this purpose, the authors examined 171 cultural heritage websites and their retrieved data analytics about their performance and user experience inside them. Massive amounts of Web-based collections are included and presented by cultural heritage organizations through their websites. Subsequently, users interact with these collections, producing behavioral analytics in a variety of different data types that come from multiple devices, with high velocity, in large volumes. Nevertheless, prior research efforts indicate that these massive cultural collections are difficult to browse while expressing low visibility and findability in the semantic Web era. Against this backdrop, this paper proposes the computational development of a search engine optimization (SEO) strategy that utilizes the generated big cultural data analytics and improves the visibility of cultural heritage websites. One step further, the statistical results of the study are integrated into a predictive model that is composed of two stages. First, a fuzzy cognitive mapping process is generated as an aggregated macro-level descriptive model. Secondly, a micro-level data-driven agent-based model follows up. The purpose of the model is to predict the most effective combinations of factors that achieve enhanced visibility and organic traffic on cultural heritage organizations’ websites. To this end, the study contributes to the knowledge expansion of researchers and practitioners in the big cultural analytics sector with the purpose to implement potential strategies for greater visibility and findability of cultural collections on the Web.

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