My research interests are at the intersection of the Semantic Web and e-science. This involves using Semantic Web technologies to help scientists in other domains to do their jobs better. One way to make this happen is to annotate digital resources (e.g., scientific datasets, computer models, etc.) with explicit semantics so that these resources become first class citizens of the Semantic Web. Scientific results should we widely available to those who need them–not hidden away on some scientist’s hard drive. And once a resource becomes available, semantic markup should help potential users understand how the resource was generated and allow the resource to be used in scenarios not thought of by the original scientist.
Specific interests include:
- Cyberinfrastructure for e-science
- Knowledge representation languages such as RDF and OWL
- Ontologies of scientific domains
- Interactions between representations (XML, XML Schema, RDF, RDFS, OWL)
- Relationship of Semantic Web with formal logic and expressiveness of languages
- Constraint specification languages
Projects:
Currently, I am working on the NSF Earth System Curator project. Our goal is to design semantic descriptions to unify climate models and climate datasets. Visit the Curator website for more information about this project.
