1. Semantic Cyberinfrastructure for Knowledge and Information Discovery (SCiKID) Proposal Principle Investigator: Eric Rozell Tetherless World Constellation Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute For NSF EAGER Grant

2. Table of Contents Cover Sheet Information Project Summary Project Description Unfunded Collaborations EArly Grants for Exploratory Research(EAGER) “Fitness” References Cited Biographical Sketch Budget Justification Review 2

3. Cover Sheet Information Awardee: Eric Rozell Primary Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Program: EAGER Unit of Consideration: NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) Title: Semantic Cyberinfrastrucutre for Knowledge and Information Discovery (SciKID) Budget: $300,000 Duration: 2 years 3

4. Project Summary - Overview Federated search capabilities Multi-paradigm search tools (e.g., hierarchical, faceted, semantic, etc.) Multi-disciplinary data discovery platform Data integration and quality analysis tools 4

5. Project Summary – Intellectual Merit General cyberinfrastructure contribution applicable to many science domains (breadth) –Accelerate scientific discovery Extensible architecture for data analysis and visualization tools (depth) –Data scientists / informaticists focus on algorithms and tools 5

6. Project Summary – Broader Impacts Applicable to any data-centric science domain Range of tools supporting experts (e.g., specialized informaticists) to non- experts (e.g., undergraduates) in scientific discovery Support education on best practices in data pipeline 6

7. Project Description - Content Objectives –To advance the fields of data science and cyberinfrastructure Significance –Will accelerate scientific discovery in data-centric science domains Long-term Goals –To provide cyberinfrastructure covering all aspects of the data pipeline enabling the preservation of accessible and reusable data for centuries to come Related Work –Virtual Observatories (many refs.) –Faceted Browse (many refs.) –Semantic Search (Noesis, other refs.) –Web service discovery (ESIP Discovery Cluster, P2P systems, et al.) –Data provenance (Peter’s DSRC talk) 7

8. Project Description - Content (2 months) Extend S2S to support federated search (2 months) Investigate search paradigms –E.g., faceted browse, semantic search algorithms, hierarchical search (4 months) Extend S2S to support variety of search paradigms (4 months) Investigate data discovery techniques –E.g., service metadata (ontology) models, registry architectures (2 months) Extend S2S with necessary discovery infrastructure (6 months) Investigate provenance models that will enable data integration and data QA as presented in Peter’s DSRC talk (4 months) Extend S2S with more elaborate “data” model 8

9. Project Description – Results from Prior Work No prior NSF funding (as PI / co-PI) Worked as RA for SeSF? –Results include S2S (see refs.) 9

10. Unfunded Collaborations Will utilize existing connections with… –High Altitude Observatory, NCAR, CO –Geology & Geophysics, WHOI, MA –Physical Oceanography, WHOI, MA –BCO-DMO, WHOI, MA 10

11. EAGER “Fitness” Transformative –Federated search across web service standards –Persistent storage and reuse of user interface components and integration and analysis tools in a web environment Interdisciplinary –Involving many science domains (for use cases and design input), visualization, web science, data science, software engineering 11

12. EAGER “Unfitness” Not necessarily “Untested” May work as “regular” NSF proposal 12

13. References Cited S2S Publications –E. Rozell, P. Fox, A. Maffei, S. Zednik (2011), A Framework for Earth Science Search Interface Development, Abstract EGU2011-13413 presented at General Assembly 2011, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 03-08 Apr –E. Rozell, A. Maffei, S. Beaulieu, P. Fox (2010), A Framework for Integrating Oceanographic Data Repositories, Abstract IN23A-1349 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec –E. Rozell, P. Fox, A. Maffei, Ontology and Application for Reusable Search Interface Design, to be submitted to Computers & Geosciences Plus everything needed from the related work 13

14. Biographical Sketch Eric Rozell, Ph.D. Student –Degrees B.S., Computer Science, RPI M.S., Management in TC&E*, RPI (in pursuit) Ph.D., Computer Science, RPI (in pursuit) –Appointments WHOI Summer Student Fellow Darrin Fdn. Summer Ugrad. Research Fellow –Collaborators TWC Professors WHOI Scientists 14

15. Budget Justification Annual Budget ($150,000 annually) –$30,000 (meager RA salary) –$50,000 (tuition & fees) –$55,000 (jr. software engineer salary) –$10,000 (consulting fees and travel) –$5,000 (hardware) Cumulative Budget –Above x2 15

16. Review Needs work… 16