Patrick West's Projects

Project PI

TW Website Project LogoNew TW Website Project
Principal Investigator: Patrick West
Description: A new, semantically-powered Tetherless World Website running in the Drupal CMS.
Concepts: Semantic Web

Project CO-PI

ApartNet LogoTWC ApartNet (ApartNet)
Principal Investigator: John Erickson
Co Investigator: Patrick West
Description: TWC ApartNet is a social network-based tool to help RPI graduate students and others find housing advice and learning about solutions that meet their needs from their peers.

Project Collaborator

MetPetDB LogoA Database for Metamorphic Petrology (MetPetDB)
Research Areas: X-informatics, Knowledge Provenance, Data Frameworks, Data Science, Semantic eScience
Principal Investigator: Frank Spear
Co Investigator: Peter Fox
Description: MetPetDB is a database for metamorphic petrology that is being designed and built by a global community of metamorphic petrologists in collaboration with computer scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as part of the National Cyberinfrastructure Initiative and supported by the National Science Foundation.
Concepts: Data Science, Geophysical Science, eScience, Semantic Web, Data Visualization, Xinformatics, Semantic eScience, Web Science, Semantic Faceted Browse/Search, Semantic Web Services, Provenance
AeroStat Project LogoAeroStat
Research Areas: Knowledge Provenance, Data Frameworks
Principal Investigator: Greg Leptoukh
Co Investigator: Peter Fox and Christopher Lynnes
Sponsor: NASA Advancing Collaborative Connections for Earth System Science
Description: Objective Provide online environment for convenient access to: Satellite and ground-based aerosol data Quality information and provenance Calibration/validation data Provide multi-sensor services: Multi-sensor and model intercomparison Cross-sensor bias adjustment Data merging Create collaborative environment for aerosol researchers to share ideas, workflows and results
Concepts: Provenance, eScience
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management OfficeBiological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
Research Areas: Data Frameworks
Principal Investigator: Peter Fox
Sponsor: Tetherless World Constellation
Description: The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) was created to serve PIs funded by the NSF Biological and Chemical Oceanography Sections as a location where marine biogeochemical, ecological and oceanographic data and information developed in the course of scientific research can easily be disseminated, protected, and stored on short and intermediate time-frames.
Concepts: eScience
DQSS Project LogoData Quality Screening Service (DQSS)
Research Areas: Knowledge Provenance, Data Frameworks
Principal Investigator: Christopher Lynnes
Co Investigator: Peter Fox
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Description: Objective Make data quality information easy to use for the water cycle community Expert and non-specialist users alike Human and machine users alike Connect users seamlessly to best practices in data quality handling, i.e., the science team recommendations for quality screening (filtering) Enable higher and more correct utilization of data quality indicators in data analysis
Concepts: eScience, Provenance
Earth System Grid - Center for Enabling TechnologiesEarth System Grid - Center for Enabling Technologies (ESG-CET)
Research Areas: Data Frameworks, Semantic eScience
Principal Investigator: Dean Williams and Peter Fox
Sponsor: Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing
Description: The Earth System Grid (ESG) integrates supercomputers with large-scale data and analysis servers located at numerous national labs and research centers to create a powerful environment for next generation climate research.
Concepts: eScience, Solar Science
HAO-CI Project LogoHAO-CI
Description: Working to develop a semantically enabled cyber infrastructure for the varying science projects within the High Altitude Observatory of the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research.
Concepts: Data Science, eScience
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.
NEONNeon Educational System for Data Access and Analysis (NESDAA)
Principal Investigator: Dennis Ward
Sponsor: National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc.
Description: To enable advanced undergraduate students and facilitator to have access to learning materials and associated artefacts like data, code, workflows [e.g. Taverna], scientific literature, and more.
Concepts: eScience
data.rpi.edu Project LogoRensselaer Polytechnic Institute Data Services (Data.rpi.edu)
Principal Investigator: Peter Fox and Jim Hendler
Description: Providing data storage, data services, data access, data discovery, data search, and data lifecycle and management for RPI research projects.
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
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
TAF LogoThe Asthma Files (TAF)
Research Areas: Semantic eScience
Principal Investigator: Michael Fortun
Co Investigator: Peter Fox
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Description: The Asthma Files is an electronic archive of text, still images, video and audio that illustrate multiple perspectives on asthma-- from the vantage point of affected people in different locales and communities, heath care providers, and scientists from many different disciplines.
Concepts: Semantic eScience, Semantic Web
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