It’s all about the Data: Big Data, Real Data, Research Data, Open Data, ... [Abstract] Kerstin Schneider Hochschule Harz Friedrichstraße 57-59 38855 Wernigerode kschneider@hs-harz.de ABSTRACT About the Author There are a lot of open questions on data related aspects, Kerstin Schneider received her diploma degree in computer e.g., data integration, data quality, data availability, data science from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern 1994 access, data protection. What impact has data on todays and her doctorate (Dr. rer. nat) in computer science from research especially on research on database systems or da- the University of Stuttgart in 2003 where she has been re- ta analytics? How dependent is database systems research search assistent at the Institute of Parallel and Distributed from having access to high quality real data? The talk will High Performance Systems in the database department Än- focus on some important aspects researchers will face. wendungsentwicklungüntil 2001 (e.g., long-running transac- tions, transactional workflows). From 2001 to 2004 she wor- ked as researcher at the European Media Lab in Heidelberg (e.g., bioinformatic databases, human computer interaction, intelligent information systems, augmented reality, augmen- ted edutainment). In 2004 she received the Research and Innovation Award of the Rhein-Neckar Foundation. Then she worked as Vice Teamleader Data Warehouse at the Ci- tigroup IT Consulting GmbH in Duisburg and as application architect at DEVK Versicherungen in Cologne. Since 2007 she is Professor of Databases at the Harz University of Ap- plied Sciences. 28th GI-Workshop on Foundations of Databases (Grundlagen von Daten- banken), 24.05.2016 - 27.05.2016, Nörten-Hardenberg, Germany. Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). 9