STCI: A Semantic eScience Framework (SESF): Facilitating Next Generation Data Intensive Science

该奖项是使用2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）项目提供的资金，该项目将实施可配置和可扩展的语义eScience框架。配置将需要一些研究来适应不同层次的语义表达能力和来自用例的用户需求。可扩展性最好是在社区设置中执行的语义编码（即本体）的模块化方法中实现的，即本体框架，其中特定应用程序一直到社区可以根据其需要扩展语义。在过去的几年里，语义技术已经发展，新的工具正在出现。该项目的部分工作将是在新框架中适应这些进步，并为（某些）技术进步制定可持续的软件路径。除了对当前数据科学接口的概括外，该项目还将包括一个适合信息交换所和/或教育门户网站、数字图书馆和其他学科使用的上层接口。

This award is made using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)Project will implement configurable and extensible semantic eScience framework. Configuration will require some research into accommodating different levels of semantic expressivity and user requirements from use cases. Extensibility is best achieved in a modular approach to the semantic encodings (i.e. ontologies) performed in a community setting, i.e. an ontology framework into which specific applications all the way up to communities can extend the semantics for their needs. Over the past few years, semantic technologies have evolved and new tools are appearing. Part of the effort in this pro ject will be to accommodate these advances in the new framework and lay out a sustainable software path for the (certain) technical advances. In addition to a generalization of the current data science interface, project will include an upper-level interface suitable for use by clearinghouses, and/or educational portals, digital libraries, and other disciplines.