



![]() | Foresight 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 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 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 Description: . |
![]() | Semantic Vernaculars for Fungi (SVF) Research Areas: Semantic eScience Principal Investigator: Deborah L. McGuinness Description: Concepts: Provenance |
![]() | Semantic 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. |




![]() | Scientific 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 |
![]() | Semantic 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 |
![]() | Semantic 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. |
![]() | Semantic 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 |
![]() | Semantically-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 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 |