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VSTO
The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory (VSTO) - a collaborative project between the High Altitude Observatory and Scientific Computing Division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and McGuinness Associates. VSTO is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) in the Shared Cyberinfrastructure (SCI) division.
- Project Description
- Key Concepts (Ontologies, Web Services, Data Assimilation, Interdisciplinary science)
- Broad Design
- VSTO - semantics and ontologies in an operational environment - one page diagram
- A Short Description of VSTO - handout
- Project Reports
New at the VSTO
- Publication - P. Fox, D. McGuinness, L. Cinquini, P. West, J. Garcia, and J. Benedict 2008, "Ontology-supported Scientific Data Frameworks: The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory Experience", Computers and Geosciences, special issue on Geoscience Knowledge Representation for Cyberinfrastructure.
- Publication - D. McGuinness, P. Fox, L. Cinquini, P. West, J. Benedict, and J. Garcia 2007, Current and future uses of OWL for scientific data frameworks: successes and limitations", OWL Experiences and Directions 2007, to be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Available online
- Publication - P. Fox, L. Cinquini, D. McGuinness, P. West, J. Garcia, J. Benedict, and S. Zednik 2008, "Semantic web services for interdisciplinary scientific data query and retrieval", Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Semantic e-science.
- Publication - D. McGuinness, P. Fox, L. Cinquini, P. West, J. Garcia, J. L. Benedict and D. Middleton 2008, "The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory: A Deployed Semantic Web Application Case Study for Scientific Research", in Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence Deployed Track and AI Magazine, vol. 29, no. 1, 65-76.
- The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory; access to and use of diverse solar and solar- terrestrial data. Fox, P; McGuinness, D; Cinquini, L; Garcia, J; West, P; Zednik, S; Benedict, J at AGU 2008 Joint Assembly. Fort Lauderdale, FL - 27-30 May, 2008 - AGU JA08 IN43A-06 Fox VSTO
- A Semantic Web-based Methodology for Building Conceptual Models of Scientific Information. James Benedict, Deborah McGuinness, Peter Fox at AGU 2007 Fall Meeting. San Francisco, California, December 10-14, 2007.
- Current and future uses of OWL for Earth and Space science data frameworks: successes and limitations . Patrick West, Deborah McGuinness, Peter Fox, and Luca Cinquni AGU 2007 Fall Meeting. San Francisco, California, December 10-14, 2007..
- Advanced Semantic Concepts and Services in the Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory. Luca Cinquni, Peter Fox, Deborah McGuinness, Patrick West, Jose Garcia, Don Middleton, James Benedict AGU 2007 Fall Meeting. San Francisco, California, December 10-14, 2007..
- The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory: A Deployed Semantic Web Application Case Study for Scientific Research. Deborah McGuinness, Peter Fox, Luca Cinquini, Patrick West, Jose Garcia, James L. Benedict, and Don Middleton. In the proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-07). Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 22-26, 2007. Also available here.
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Semantic eScience Workshop co-located with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference, Vancouver, CA., July 23, 2007.
- Explaining Complex Systems - Deborah McGuinness
- Semantic web services for interdisciplinary scientific data query and retrieval - Peter Fox, Luca Cinquini, Deborah McGuinness, Patrick West, Jose Garcia, James L. Benedict and Stephan Zednik.
- Virtual Observatories in Geosciences 2007 (VOiG)
The Curtis Hotel, Denver Colorado, USA - June 12-14, 2007
The first virtual observatories in geosciences conference (VOiG) was a great success. Thank you to all who presented, all who attended and all who contributed to its success.
You can view presentation materials and more at the conference wiki.