Browsing Tetherless World Publications by Author "DiFranzo, Dominic"

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    • Analyzing the Flow of Trust in the Virtual World With Semantic Web Technologies 

      Zhang, Qingpeng; DiFranzo, Dominic; Gloria, Marie Joan Kristine; Makni, Bassem; Hendler, James A. (IEEE, 2018-08)
      Virtual worlds present a natural test bed to observe and study the social behaviors of people at a large scale. Analyzing the rich “big data” generated by the activities of players in a virtual world enables us to better ...

    • Building Web Observatories for Health Web Science 

      DiFranzo, Dominic; Erickson, John S.; Gloria, Kristine; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Luciano, Joanne (2014-06-23)
      As the World Wide Web continues to grow and change, the need to study and understand it grows. Web Science is an effort to do just this. Due to the multidisciplinary nature of Web Science, and the wide variety of data on ...

    • Data-gov Wiki: Towards Linking Government Data 

      Ding, Li; DiFranzo, Dominic; Graves, Alvaro; Michaelis, James; Li, Xian; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Hendler, James A. (2010-03-24)
      Data.gov is a website that provides US Government data to the general public to ensure better accountability and trans- parency. Our recent work on the Data-gov Wiki, which at- tempts to integrate the datasets published ...

    • Data-govWiki: Towards Linking Government Data 

      Ding, Li; DiFranzo, Dominic; Graves, Alvaro; Michaelis, James; Li, Xian; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Hendler, James A. (2010-03-22)
      Data.gov is a website that provides US Government data to the general public to ensure better accountability and transparency. Our recent work on the Data-gov Wiki, which attempts to integrate the datasets published at ...

    • 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. ...

    • Legal and ethical considerations: step 1b in building a health web observatory 

      Gloria, Kristine; Erickson, John S.; Luciano, Joanne; DiFranzo, Dominic; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2014-04-11)
      This paper explores the impact of health information technologies, including the Web, on society and advocates for the development of a Health Web Observatory (HWO) to collect, store and analyze new sources of health ...

    • Light structure in the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography 

      Poirier, Lindsay; DiFranzo, Dominic; Gloria, Kristine (2014-06-23)
      The following presents an interdisciplinary collaboration between ethnographers and computer scientists involved in the development of the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE). The paper begins with ...

    • Multiple Truths of the Semantic Web 

      Fernando Navarro, Marco; DiFranzo, Dominic; Gloria, Kristine (2013-05-01)
      Building off our previous work to re-conceptualize Web technologies through social theory, the following contribution presents a close reading of Foucault’s discussion of “truth” as it relates to the Semantic Web. Specifically, ...

    • Producing and Using Linked Open Government Data in the TWC LOGD Portal 

      Lebo, Tim; Erickson, John S.; Graves, Alvaro; Williams, Gregory; DiFranzo, Dominic; Li, Xian; Michaelis, James; Zheng, Jin; Flores, Johanna; Shangguan, Zhenning; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Hendler, James A. (2011-11-04)
      As open government initiatives around the world pub- lish an increasing number of raw datasets, citizens and communities face daunting challenges when organiz- ing, understanding, and associating disparate data re- lated ...

    • The Data-gov Wiki: A Semantic Web Portal for Linked Government Data 

      Ding, Li; DiFranzo, Dominic; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Hendler, James A.; Magidson, Sarah (2009-10-29)
      The Data-gov Wiki is the delivery site for a project where we investigate the role of linked data in producing, processing and utilizing the government datasets found on data.gov. The project has generated over 2 billion ...

    • The Importance of Authoritative URI Design Schemes for Open Government Data 

      Bulazel, Alexei; DiFranzo, Dominic; Erickson, John S.; Hendler, James A. (International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age (IJPADA), 2015-01-01)
      A major challenge when working with open government data is managing, connecting, and understanding the links between references to entities found across multiple datasets when these datasets use different vocabularies to ...

    • The Web is My Back-end: Creating Mashups with Linked Open Government Data 

      DiFranzo, Dominic; Graves, Alvaro; Erickson, John S.; Ding, Li; Michaelis, James; Lebo, Tim; Patton, Evan; Williams, Gregory; Li, Xian; Zheng, Jin; Flores, Johanna; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Hendler, James A. (Linking Government Data, 2011-01-01)
      Governments around the world have been releasing raw data to their citizens at an increased pace. The mixing and linking of these government datasets enhances their value and makes new insights possible. The use of mashups, ...

    • The Web Observatory Extension: Facilitating Web Science Collaboration through Semantic Markup 

      DiFranzo, Dominic; Erickson, John S.; Gloria, Kristine; Luciano, Joanne; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Hendler, James A. (2014-04-11)
      The multi-disciplinary nature of Web Science and the large size and diversity of data collected and studied by its practitioners has inspired a new type of Web resource known as the Web Observatory. Web observatories are ...

    • TWC data-gov corpus: incrementally generating linked government data from data.gov 

      Ding, Li; DiFranzo, Dominic; Graves, Alvaro; Michaelis, James; Li, Xian; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Hendler, James A. (2010-04-30)
      The Open Government Directive is making US government data available via websites such as Data.gov for public access. In this paper, we present a Semantic Web based approach that incrementally generates Linked Government ...

    • TWC LOGD: A Portal for Linked Open Government Data Ecosystems 

      Ding, Li; Lebo, Tim; Erickson, John S.; DiFranzo, Dominic; Williams, Gregory; Li, Xian; Michaelis, James; Graves, Alvaro; Zheng, Jin; Flores, Johanna; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Hendler, James A. (Journal of Web Semantics, 2011-06-22)
      International open government initiatives are releasing an increasing volume of raw government datasets directly to citizens via the Web. The transparency resulting from these releases creates new application opportunities ...

    • TWC LOGD: A Portal for Linking Open Government Data 

      DiFranzo, Dominic; Ding, Li; Erickson, John S.; Li, Xian; Lebo, Tim; Michaelis, James; Graves, Alvaro; Williams, Gregory; Zheng, Jin; Flores, Johanna; Gervasio, Gino; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Hendler, James A. (2010-11-11)
      International open government initiatives are releasing an increasing number of “raw” government datasets directly to citizens via the Web, creating new opportunities but imposing burdens inherent to the problems of ...