SoBigData.it: methods metadata census

SoBigData.it groups some of the Italian laboratories that are working on big data. The partners want to build a European Research Infrastructure for big data and social analytics through the European Project SoBigData.eu. One of the main bricks of a research infrastructure is a method's catalog where the users of the infrastructure can search for available methods. In order to anticipate the activities of the European project, we decided to start a census of the methods available among the partners. We decided to: define a collection of metadata fields; to describe the methods; build a method's census in order to collect the metadata about methods; part of the information collected can be published on the website.