Societal challenges and their Big Data focus areas

**Health** Heterogeneous data linking and integration, biomedical semantic indexing

**Food & Agriculture** Large-scale distributed data integration

**Energy** Real-time monitoring, stream processing, data analytics, decision support

**Transport** Streaming sensor network and geospatial data integration

**Climate** Real-time monitoring, stream processing and data analytics

**Social Sciences** Statistical and research data linking and integration

**Security** Real-time monitoring, stream processing and data analytics, image data analysis