ABSTRACT
The ALIGNED project developed an aligned methodology for parallel software and data engineering of Web-scale information systems with Linked Data as a unifying technical foundation for system specification and process and tool integration. This chapter analyzes the major challenges identified by the use cases in the software life cycle and presents solutions to these challenges. The use cases represent diverse domains, both commercial and non-commercial, which have their own requirements and data characteristics. They also represent a significantly different level of advancements in both the data and software engineering tools and procedures. The selection of uses cases was also driven by a need of testing interoperability between the tools, particularly those who support both data and software engineering that were developed in the project. The chosen use cases were: Seshat: Global History Databank, PoolParty Enterprise Application Demonstrator System, DBpedia, Jurion and Jurion IPG, and Health Data Management.
