



![]() | New TW Website Project Principal Investigator: Patrick West Description: A new, semantically-powered Tetherless World Website running in the Drupal CMS. Concepts: Semantic Web |




![]() | TWC 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. |




![]() | A 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 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 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 |
![]() | Data 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 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 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. |
![]() | Neon 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 |
![]() | Rensselaer 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 |
![]() | 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 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 |
![]() | The 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 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 |