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

IIS -0712793 Karger，大卫R麻省理工学院III-COR：数据家园：工具，让科学用户收获，丈夫，和共享结构化信息关注生物学领域，该项目将开发一套工具，使科学家能够整合来自多个网络来源的数据，以帮助可视化和操纵这些整合的数据，并将这些新整合的数据重新发布到网络上更大的科学界。 该项目旨在将基于Web的复杂数据集成到一项活动中，该活动可以由单个科学家临时执行，收集，操作和发布他们想要使用的信息。我们解决数据集成问题的三个方面。 该项目有四项任务：（1）开发让非程序员收集他们希望集成的信息的工具，从许多非合作的网站或从具有不同模式的数据存储库中提取信息，并将其结构化为集成的数据模型，（2）开发让用户构建他们自己的特定于任务的信息管理应用的本体和工具，（3）开发本体和工具，让用户建立自己的特定任务的信息管理应用程序。 这项工作将通过组装一个广泛的参考语料库的网络数据源，主要是在生物学，并衡量组件的能力，收集，整合和重新传播这些来源的数据进行评估。此外，将在实验室中进行工具的形成性和总结性用户研究，并部署工具供生物学家在自己的工作中使用。

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.