Browsing Tetherless World Publications by Author "McCusker, Jamie"
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Semantic Modeling of Cohort Descriptions in Research Studies
Chari, Shruthi; Weerawarana, Rukmal; Seneviratne, Oshani; McCusker, Jamie; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Das, Amar (2018-10-29)Recommendations in ADA’s Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes guideline are supported by findings from scientific publications (primarily clinical trials and case studies). We propose an approach rooted in Information ... -
Annotating Diverse Scientific Data With HAScO
Pinheiro, Paulo; Bax, Marcello; Santos, Henrique; Rashid, Sabbir; Liang, Jason; Liu, Yue; Ne'eman, Yarden; McCusker, Jamie; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2018-10-01)Ontologies are being widely used across many scientific fields, most notably in roles related to acquiring, preparing, integrating and managing data resources. Data acquisition and preparation activities are often difficult ... -
Ontology-enabled Breast Cancer Characterization
Seneviratne, Oshani; Rashid, Sabbir; Chari, Shruthi; McCusker, Jamie; Bennett, Kristin P.; Hendler, James A.; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2018-10-01)We address the problem of characterizing breast cancer, which today is done using staging guidelines. Our demo will show different breast cancer staging results that leverage the Whyis semantic nanopublication knowledge ... -
The Whyis Knowledge Graph Framework in Action
McCusker, Jamie; Rashid, Sabbir; Agu, Nkechinyere; Bennett, Kristin P.; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2018-10-01)We will demonstrate a reusable framework for developing knowledge graphs that supports general, open-ended development of knowledge curation, interaction, and inference. Knowledge graphs need to be easily maintainable and ... -
SETLr: the semantic extract, transform, and load-r
McCusker, Jamie; Chastain, Katherine; Rashid, Sabbir; Norris, Spencer; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2018-02-02)Semantic Extract, Transform, and Load-er (SETLr) is a flexible, scalable tool for providing semantic interpretations to tabular, XML, and JSON-based data from local or web files. It has been used by diverse projects and ... -
Developing Scientific Knowledge Graphs Using Whyis
McCusker, Jamie; Rashid, Sabbir; Agu, Nkechinyere; Bennett, Kristin P.; McGuinness, Deborah L. (SemSci, 2018)We present Whyis, the first framework for creating custom provenance-driven knowledge graphs. Whyis knowledge graphs are based on nanopublications, which simplifies and standardizes the production of structured, ... -
The Semantic Data Dictionary Approach to Data Annotation & Integration
Rashid, Sabbir; Chastain, Katherine; Stingone, Jeanette; McGuinness, Deborah L.; McCusker, Jamie (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2017-10-20)A standard approach to describing datasets is through the use of data dictionaries: tables which contain information about the content, description, and format of each data variable. While this approach is helpful for a ... -
Broad, Interdisciplinary Science In Tela: An Exposure and Child Health Ontology
McCusker, Jamie; Rashid, Sabbir; Liang, Jason; Chastain, Katherine; Pinheiro, Paulo; Stingone, Jeanette; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2017-06-25)Data curation for interdisciplinary collaborative science requires a new online web-based approach that integrates domain knowledge from multiple resources and enables in tela (in the web) interactive collaboration between ... -
An Ontology for a Polymer Nanocomposite Community Data Resource
Rawte, Vipula; McCusker, Jamie; Zhoa, He; Brinson, Cate; Chen, Wei; Schadler, Linda; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2017-06-25)Interest in polymer nanocomposites has been increasing because of their unique properties. Since the field draws on a wide range of disciplines, a data resource aimed at adequately supporting the field needs to include ... -
Finding melanoma drugs through a probabilistic knowledge graph
McCusker, Jamie; Dumontier, Michel; Yan, Rui; He, Sylvia; McGuinness, Deborah L. (PeerJ Computer Science, 2017-02-17)Metastatic cutaneous melanoma is an aggressive skin cancer with some progressionslowing treatments but no known cure. The omics data explosion has created many possible drug candidates; however, filtering criteria remain ... -
WebSig: A Digital Signature Framework for the Web
McCusker, Jamie (2015-08-31)WebSig is a digital signature scheme for the web that uses Resource Description Framework (RDF) graphs to express its documents, document metadata, and signature data in a way that leverages existing trustable digital ... -
Technical Report: Identifying First Responder Communities through Social Network Analysis of Disaster-Related Traffic
Erickson, John S.; Chastain, Katherine; McCusker, Jamie; Fry, Zach; Yan, Rui; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2014-07-15)First responder communities across disciplines are in constant pursuit of appropriate technologies and methods to help save lives, protect the public, and deliver their services more safely. Responders in the coming years ... -
Formalizing the semantics of sea ice
Duerr, Ruth; McCusker, Jamie; Parsons, Mark; Singh Khalsa, Siri Jodha; Pulsifer, Peter; Thompson, Cassidy; Yan, Rui; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Fox, Peter (Earth Science Informatics, 2014-03-01)We have initiated a project aimed at enhancing interdisciplinary understanding and usability of polar data by diverse communities. We have produced computer- and human-understandable models of sea ice that can be used to ... -
Next Generation Cancer Data Discovery, Access, and Integration Using Prizms and Nanopublications
McCusker, Jamie; Lebo, Tim; Krauthammer, Michael; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2013-07-11)To encourage data sharing in the life sciences, supporting tools need to minimize effort and maximize incentives. We have created infrastructure that makes it easy to create portals that supports dataset sharing and ... -
Technical Report: Requirements Gathering through First Responder Social Network Analysis
Erickson, John S.; McCusker, Jamie; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Fry, Zach; Chastain, Katherine; Yan, Rui (2013-06-20)In this report we present our work on applying social network analysis to the problem of enabling and supporting a requirements gathering methodology for stakeholder communities active in social media. We describe the ... -
SemantEco: A Next- Generation Web Observatory
Seyed, Patrice; Lebo, Tim; Patton, Evan; McCusker, Jamie; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2013-05-13)A web observatory for empirical research of Web data benefits from software frameworks that are modular, has a clear underlying semantic model, and that includes metadata enabling a trace and inspection of the source data ... -
Towards Next Generation Health Data Exploration: A Data Cube-based Investigation into Population Statistics for Tobacco
McCusker, Jamie; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Thomas, Chavon; Courtney, Paul; Tatalovich, Zaria; Contractor, Noshir; Morgan, Glen; Shaikh, Abdul (2013-01-07)Increasingly, experts and interested laypeople are turning to the explosion of online data to form and explore hypotheses about relationships between public health intervention strategies and their possible impacts. We ... -
Applying Multidimensional Navigation and Explanation in Semantic Dataset Summarization
Michaelis, James; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Chang, Cynthia; Luciano, Joanne; McCusker, Jamie; Hendler, James A. (2012-11-13) -
Public Health Surveillance Using Global Health Explorer
McCusker, Jamie; Thomas, Chavon; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2012-11-12)Abstract. We demonstrate an early version of a semantic web tool, Global Health Explorer (GHX), that can be used to conduct public health surveillance using Twitter. Our infrastructure can use any controlled vocabulary to ... -
Functional Requirements for Information Resource Provenance on the Web
McCusker, Jamie; Lebo, Tim; Graves, Alvaro; DiFranzo, Dominic; Pinheiro, Paulo; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2012-03-16)HTTP transactions have semantics that can be interpreted in many ways. At a low level, a physical stream of bits is transmitted from server to client. Higher up, those bits resolve into a message with a specific bit pattern. ...