III-COR: Data Homesteading: Tools to let Scientific Users Harvest, Husband, and Share Structured Information

IIS-0712793 Karger，David RMassachusetts Institute of Technology III-COR：Data Homesteads：让科学用户获取、匹配和共享结构化信息的工具聚焦于生物学领域，该项目将开发一套工具，使科学家能够集成来自多个Web源的数据，帮助可视化和操纵这些集成的数据，并将这些新集成的数据重新发布到Web上更大的科学界。该项目旨在将基于网络的复杂数据集成到一项可由个别科学家临时执行的活动中，准确地收集、处理和发布他们想要处理的信息。我们解决了数据集成问题的三个方面。该项目有四项任务：(1)开发工具，让非程序员收集他们希望集成的信息，从许多不合作的网站或从具有不同模式的数据存储库中提取信息，并将其组织成一个集成的数据模型；(2)开发本体和工具，允许用户构建他们自己的特定于任务的信息管理应用程序；(3)开发允许用户构建他们自己的特定于任务的信息管理应用程序的本体和工具。这项工作将通过汇集主要是生物学领域的网络数据源的广泛参考语料库，并衡量各组成部分从这些来源收集、整合和重新传播数据的能力来进行评估。此外，工具的形成性和总结性用户研究将在实验室中进行，工具将被部署供生物学家在他们自己的工作中使用。

IIS - 0712793Karger, David RMassachusetts Institute of TechnologIII-COR:Data Homesteads: Tools to let Scientific Users Harvest, Husband, and Share Structured InformationFocusing on the domain of biology, this project will develop a suite of tools that will enable scientists to integrate data from multiple web sources, to help visualize and manipulate this integrated data, and to republish this newly integrated data to the larger scientific community on the web. This project aims to make web-based, complex data integration into an activity that can be performed by individual scientists on an ad hoc basis, collecting, manipulating, and publishing precisely the information that they want to work with. We address three aspects of the data integration problem. The project has four tasks: (1) develop tools that let non-programmers collect the information they wish to integrate, extracting it from numerous non-cooperating web sites, or from data repositories with disparate schemata, and structuring it into an integrated data model, (2) develop ontologies and tools that let users build their own task-specific information management applications, (3) develop ontologies and tools that let users build their own task-specific information management applications. The work will be evaluated by assembling a broad reference corpus of web data sources, primarily in biology, and measuring the ability of the components to collect, integrate, and redisseminate data from these sources. In addition, formative and summative user studies of the tools will be performed in the lab, tools will be deployed for biologists'use in their own work.