This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed short papers workshops and doctoral consortium
papers of the 21th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems ADBIS
2017 held in Nicosia Cyprus in September 2017. The 25 full and 4 short workshop papers and
the 12 short papers of the main conference were carefully reviewed and selected from 160
submissions. The papers from the following workshops have been included in the proceedings: the
first workshop on Data-Driven Approaches for Analyzing and Managing Scholarly Data AMSD 2017
the first workshop on Novel Techniques for Integrating Big Data BigNovelTI 2017 the first
international workshop on Data Science: Methodologies and Use-Cases DaS 2017 the second
international workshop on Semantic Web for Cultural Heritage SW4CH 2017.
