Deborah L. McGuinness Project Participation

Project PI

FUSE LogoForesight and Understanding from Scientific Exposition (FUSE)
Research Areas: Inference And Trust, Knowledge Provenance, Data Frameworks
Principal Investigator: Deborah L. McGuinness
Co Investigator: Jim Hendler
Sponsor: Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
Description: Technical emergence refers to the process whereby innovative ideas, capabilities, applications, and even entirely new fields of study arise, are tested, mature, and, if conditions are favorable, demonstrate feasibility and impact. IARPA’s Foresight and Understanding from Scientific Exposition (FUSE) Program is sponsoring advanced research and development (R&D) to develop automated systems that aid in the systematic, continuous, and comprehensive assessment of technical emergence using information derived from the published scientific, technical, and patent literature.
Concepts: Provenance, Semantic Web
Health on the Web
Research Areas: Knowledge Provenance
Principal Investigator: Deborah L. McGuinness and Joanne S. Luciano
Description: The Tetherless World Constellation's Health on the Web's primary goal is to explore the next generation web technology needed to improve health.
Inference Web Project LogoInference Web
Research Areas: Knowledge Provenance
Principal Investigator: Deborah L. McGuinness
Description: The Inference Web is a Semantic Web based knowledge provenance infrastructure that supports interoperable explanations of sources, assumptions, learned information, and answers as an enabler for trust.
Concepts: Provenance
Linking open government dataLinking Open Government Data (LOGD)
Research Areas: Future Web
Principal Investigator: Deborah L. McGuinness and Jim Hendler
Sponsors: Fujitsu Laboratories of America, DARPA Transformation Convergence Technology Office, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratory
Description: The LOGD project investigates the role of Semantic Web technologies, especially Linked Data, in producing, enhancing and utilizing government data published on Data.gov and other websites.
Population Science Grid (PopSciGrid)
Research Areas: Knowledge Provenance
Principal Investigator: Deborah L. McGuinness
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
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SVF LogoSemantic Vernaculars for Fungi (SVF)
Research Areas: Semantic eScience
Principal Investigator: Deborah L. McGuinness
Description:
Concepts: Provenance
SemantAQUA LogoSemantic Water Quality Portal (SemantAQUA)
Research Areas: Knowledge Provenance, Semantic eScience
Principal Investigator: Deborah L. McGuinness and Joanne S. Luciano
Description: We present a semantic technology-based approach to emerging environmental information systems. We used our linked data approach in the Tetherless World Constellation Semantic Water Quality Portal (TWC-SWQP). Our integration scheme uses a core domain ontology and integrates water data from different authoritative sources along with multiple regulation ontologies to enable pollution detection and monitoring. An OWL-based reasoning scheme identifies pollution events relative to user chosen regulations. Our approach also captures and leverages provenance to improve transparency. In addition, semantic water quality portal features provenance-based facet generation, query answering and data validation over the integrated data via SPARQL. We introduce the approach and the water portal, and highlight some of its potential impacts for the future of environmental monitoring systems.
Concepts: Semantic eScience, Provenance
Wine Agent (Wineagent)
Principal Investigator: Deborah L. McGuinness
Description: The Tetherless World Wine Agent is a demonstration platform for a large variety of Semantic Web techologies in a rich domain and is derived from previous work in the field of reasoning systems.

Project CO-PI

SKIF Project LogoScientific Knowledge Integration Framework (SKIF)
Research Areas: Data Frameworks
Principal Investigator: Peter Fox
Co Investigator: Deborah L. McGuinness
Sponsor: NASA Advancing Collaborative Connections for Earth System Science
Description: The overall goal of this effort is to bring together key aspects of intelligent systems, namely data mining / knowledge extraction and semantic knowledge representation, and to prove the benefit of this approach by applying it to a science problem that is representative of NASA Science Mission Directorate research interests.
Concepts: eScience
SPCDIS Project LogoSemantic Provenance Capture in Data Ingest Systems (SPCDIS)
Research Areas: Data Frameworks, Knowledge Provenance
Principal Investigator: Peter Fox
Co Investigator: Deborah L. McGuinness
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Description: The goal of this project is to develop at the RPI Tetherless World Constellation, based within the NCAR High Altitude Observatory and in collaboration with the University of Texas at El Paso, the University of Michigan and McGuinness Associates a semantically-enabled data ingest capability.
Concepts: eScience
SSIII Project LogoSemantic Sea Ice Interoperability Initiative (SSIII)
Principal Investigator: Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa, Mark Parsons, and Ruth Duerr
Co Investigator: Peter Fox and Deborah L. McGuinness
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Description: SSIII is a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded effort to enhance the interoperability of sea ice data to establish a network of practitioners working to enhance semantic interoperability of all Arctic data. SSIII is a collaborative project between NSIDC and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Tetherless World Constellation project. We seek to build on the work initiated under the International Polar Year (IPY) and create a community of practice working to improve interoperability within the Polar Information Commons (PIC), the Sustained Arctic Observing Network (SAON), and broader global systems.
SeSF Project LogoSemantic eScience Framework (SeSF)
Research Areas: Data Science, Semantic eScience, Data Frameworks
Principal Investigator: Peter Fox
Co Investigator: Jim Hendler and Deborah L. McGuinness
Sponsor: National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure
Description: The goals of this effort is to design and implement a configurable and extensible semantic eScience framework.
Concepts: eScience
SESDI Project LogoSemantically-Enabled Science Data Integration (SESDI)
Research Areas: Semantic eScience
Principal Investigator: Peter Fox
Co Investigator: Deborah L. McGuinness
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Description: The vast majority of explorations of the Earth system are limited in their ability to effectively explore the most important (often most difficult) problems because they are forced to interconnect at the data-element, or syntactic, level rather than at a higher scientific, or semantic, level.
Concepts: eScience
Virtual Terrestrial Solar Observatory LogoVirtual Solar Terrestrial Observatory (VSTO)
Research Areas: Semantic eScience, Data Frameworks
Principal Investigator: Peter Fox
Co Investigator: Deborah L. McGuinness
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Description: VSTO is a collaborative project between the High Altitude Observatory and Scientific Computing Division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and McGuinness Associates.
Concepts: Terrestrial Science, eScience, Solar Science