“…In this context, the data curation will enable data scientists to understand and analyze the big data, understand it better and extract more value and insights. In particular, applying analytics -such as process analytics [23,16,52,21,24,22,14,64], information networks analysis [18,13,42,12,28,19,60,1], data and metadata analysis [58,17,27,26,20] -to the curated data can reveal patterns, trends, and associations and consequently increase the added value and insights of the raw data. Trending applications include but not limited to improve government services [36,35]; predict intelligence activities [69,38]; unravel human trafficking activities [32,4,6]; understand impact of news on stock markets [31,5]; analysis of financial risks [33,7]; accelerate scientific discovery [68,44]; as well as to improve national security and public health [65,47].…”