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Hi All! Prompted by *many* requests from the XLDB community to collect, publish and organize use cases related to managing and analyzing large data sets, and by a $100,000 gift from the Betty & Gordon Moore Foundation donated specifically to bootstrap the work on xldb use cases (big thank you!), we have put together a new, wiki-based system for use cases. You can access it through xldb.org, or by going directly to: http://xldb.org/use It's been seeded with a few use cases we had collected in the past, and a few (still incomplete) use cases from our neighborhood. It is far from perfect, but it is a start. Now, the next (big) step is to try and capture all these valuable use cases that your company, your project and/or your clients have related to large scale data management and analytics, and therefore we are *soliciting your in-kind contribution* to document the use cases you know, to help us reach out to these who have interesting use cases, to help us curate and translate domain specific jargons into a common language, to assist others with entering their use cases, and to continue improving what we have. Inevitably, it is all going to take some non-negligible effort, especially in the initial phase. The contributions can range from as little as 10-15 minutes (one short use case), to as much as full time for a month, a year, ... or longer! We have already started discussions with several companies that expressed interest in supporting this activity about ways to get help, but of course the more help from a variety of places we get, the better! If you plan to enter your use cases, don't worry about making them immediately perfect and complete. It will be an iterative process, and we will do our best to guide you and to help you. The need for collecting use cases keeps coming up at every XLDB workshop and every XLDB conference -- it is the #1 need beyond organizing the XLDB events as far as we can tell. So, let's make it happen! Best regards, Jacek ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XLDB-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XLDB-L&A=1