Active Data : Managing Data-Life Cycle on Heterogeneous Systems and Infrastructures The Big Data challenge consists in managing, storing, analyzing and visualizing these huge and ever growing data sets to extract sense and knowledge. As the volume of data grows exponentially, the management of these data becomes more complex in proportion. A key point is to handle the complexity of the 'Data Life Cycle', i.e. the various operations performed on data: transfer, archiving, replication, deletion, etc. Indeed, data-intensive applications span over a large variety of devices and e-infrastructures which implies that many systems are involved in data management and processing. ''Active Data'' is new approach to automate and improve the expressiveness of data management applications. It consists of * a 'formal model' for Data Life Cycle, based on Petri Net, that allows to describe and expose data life cycle across heterogeneous systems and infrastructures. * a 'programming model' allows code execution at each stage of the data life cycle: routines provided by programmers are executed when a set of events (creation, replication, transfer, deletion) happen to any data.