Report on the 2nd Workshop on Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web (MEPDaW 2016)

Research on preserving evolving linked datasets is gaining increasingly attention in the Semantic Web community. The 2nd workshop on Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web (MEPDaW 2016) aimed at addressing the numerous and diverse emerging challenges, from change discovery and scalable archive representations/indexes/infrastructures to time-based query languages and evolution analysis. In this report, we motivate our workshop and outline the keynote by Axel Polleres and the papers (3 full papers and one industry paper) presented at MEPDaW 2016 co-located with the ESWC 2016 conference in Anissaras, Crete, Greece. Finally, we conclude with an outlook of future directions.