Browsing Tetherless World Publications by Author "Ma, Xiaogang"
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The Deep-Time Digital Earth program: data-driven discovery in geosciences
Wang, C.; Hazen, Robert; Cheng, Q.; Stephenson, MH.; Zhou, C.; Fox, Peter; Shen, SZ.; Oberhänsli, R.; Hou, Z.; Ma, Xiaogang; Feng, Z.; Fan, J.; Ma, C.; Hu, X.; Luo, B.; Wang, J.; Schiffries, CM. (National Science Review, 2021-02-11)Current barriers hindering data-driven discoveries in deep-time Earth (DE) include: substantial volumes of DE data are not digitized; many DE databases do not adhere to FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) ... -
Data-driven discovery in mineralogy: Insights from natural kind clustering
Hazen, Robert; Morrison, S.M.; Zhang, S.; Boujibar, A.; Prabhu, Anirudh; Fox, Peter; Eleish, Ahmed; Huang, F.; Liu, C.; Ma, C.; Ma, Xiaogang (AGU, 2019-12)Mineralogists have long asked how many different kinds of minerals occur on Earth, if that number has changed through time, and how Earth's mineral diversity compares to that of other planets and moons. Those questions ... -
Characterizing Carbon Mineralogy And Formational Environments Through Deep Time With Advanced Analytics And Visualization
Morrison, SM; Eleish, Ahmed; Prabhu, Anirudh; Narkar, Shweta; Pan, Feifei; Huang, Fang; Fox, Peter; Zhang, S; Howell, S; Ma, Xiaogang; Ralph J. (GSA, 2019-09-25)Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the volume of mineralogical and geochemical data available for study, both of Earth and planetary materials. These expanding data resources have created an opportunity to ... -
Data-driven discovery in mineralogy: Recent advances in data resources, analysis, and visualization
Hazen, Robert; Downs, R. T.; Eleish, Ahmed; Fox, Peter; Gagné, O. C.; Golden, J. J.; Grew, E. S.; Hummer, D. R.; Hystad, G.; Krivovichev, S. V.; Li, Congrui; Liu, C.; Ma, Xiaogang; Morrison, S.M.; Pan, Feifei; Pires, A. J.; Prabhu, Anirudh; Ralph, J. J.; Runyon, S. E.; Zhong, Hao (Elsevier, 2019-06)Large and growing data resources on the diversity, distribution, and properties of minerals are ushering in a new era of data-driven discovery in mineralogy. The most comprehensive international mineral database is the IMA ... -
Application of Advanced Analytics and Visualization in Mineral Systems
Morrison, SM; Prabhu, Anirudh; Eleish, Ahmed; Pan, Feifei; Zhong, Hao; Huang, Fang; Fox, Peter; Ma, Xiaogang; Ralph, J.; Golden, J.; Downs, R. (Acta Geologica Sinica, 2019-05-01)The key to answering many compelling and complex questions in Earth, planetary, and life science lies in breaking down the barriers between scientific fields and harnessing the integrated, ... -
Defining and implementing a Deep Time Data Infrastructure to study the co-evolution of minerals, fossils, and the role of proteins in Earth’s evolution
Prabhu, Anirudh; Eleish, Ahmed; Zhong, Hao; Zednik, Stephen; Ma, Xiaogang; Fox, Peter (IGC, 2019-01-01)NA -
Geo-Data Science: Leveraging Geoscience Research with Geoinformatics, Semantics and Open Data
Ma, Xiaogang (Acta Geologica Sinica, 2019-01-01)NA -
Data-Driven Discovery in Mineralogy: Recent Advances in Data Resources, Analysis, and Visualization
Hazen, Robert; Downs, R. T.; Eleish, Ahmed; Fox, Peter; Gagné, O. C.; Golden, J. J.; Grew., E. S; Hummer, D. R.; Hystad, G.; Krivovichev, S. V.; Li, C.; Liu, C.; Ma, Xiaogang; Morrison, S.M.; Pan, FeiFei; Pires, A. J.; Prabhu, Anirudh; Ralph, J.; Runyon, S. E.; Zhong, Hao (2019)Large and growing data resources on the diversity, distribution, and properties of minerals are ushering in a new era of data-driven discovery in mineralogy. The most comprehensive international mineral database is the IMA ... -
Data Science for Geoscience: Leveraging Mathematical Geosciences with Semantics and Open Data
Ma, Xiaogang (2018-06-26) -
A Justification on the Need to Build a Machine-Readable Knowledge Base of Deep Time
Ma, Xiaogang; Fox, Peter; Hazen, Robert; Hummer, D.; Golden, J.; Downs, R.; Hystad, G.; Muscente, A.D. (DCO, 2018-06-04) -
Ontology Usability Scale: Context-aware metrics for the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction of ontology uses
Ma, Xiaogang; Fu, L.; West, Patrick; Fox, Peter (2018-04-06) -
Weaving a Knowledge Network for Deep Carbon Science
Ma, Xiaogang; West, Patrick; Zednik, Stephan; Erickson, John S.; Eleish, Ahmed; Chen, Yanning; Wang, Han; Zhong, Hao; Fox, Peter (Frontiers in Earth Science, 2017-05-15)Geoscience researchers are increasingly dependent on informatics and the Web to conduct their research. Geoscience is one of the first domains that take lead in initiatives such as open data, open code, open access, and ... -
Visualizing Complex Environments in the Geo- and Bio Sciences
Prabhu, Anirudh; Fox, Peter; Zhong, H.; Eleish, Ahmed; Ma, Xiaogang; Zednik, Stefan; Morrison, S.M.; Moore, E.; Muscente, D.; Meyer, M.; Hazen, Robert (AGU, 2017-01-01) -
Deep Time Data Infrastructure: Integrating our current Geologic and Biologic Databases
Kolankowski, S.; Fox, Peter; Ma, Xiaogang; Prabhu, Anirudh (AGU, 2016)As our knowledge of Earth’s geologic and mineralogical history grows, we require more efficient methods of sharing immense amounts of data. Databases across numerous disciplines have been utilized to offer extensive ... -
Language and Domain Independent Entity Linking with Quantified Collective Validation
Wang, Han; Zheng, Jin; Ma, Xiaogang; Fox, Peter; Ji, Heng (2015-09-17)Linking named mentions detected in a source document to an existing knowl- edge base provides disambiguated entity referents for the mentions. This allows better document analysis, knowledge ex- traction and knowledge base ... -
Data Visualization in the Semantic Web
Ma, Xiaogang; Chen, Yu; Wang, Han; Zheng, Jin Guang; Fu, Linyun; West, Patrick; Erickson, John S.; Fox, Peter (IOS Press, 2015) -
SEM+: tool for discovering concept mapping in Earth science related domain
Zheng, Jin Guang; Fu, Linyun; Ma, Xiaogang; Fox, Peter (Springer, 2015)The amount of Earth Science related domain concepts and vocabularies encoded in popular Semantic Web languages such as OWL and SKOS grows rapidly as more and more domain scientists realize the power of Semantic Web ... -
Ontology engineering in provenance enablement for the National Climate Assessment
Ma, Xiaogang; Zheng, Jin; Goldstein, Justin; Zednik, Stephan; Fu, Linyun; Duggan, Brian; Aulenbach, Steven; West, Patrick; Tilmes, Curt; Fox, Peter (Environmental Modelling and Software, 2014-08-28)The National Climate Assessment of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) analyzes and presents the impacts of climate change on the United States. The provenance information in the assessment is important because ... -
Capturing provenance of global change information
Ma, Xiaogang; Fox, Peter; Tilmes, Curt; Jacobs, Katharine; Waple, Anne (Nature Climate Change, 2014-05-29)Global change information demands access to data sources and well-documented provenance to provide the evidence needed to build confidence in scientific conclusions and decision making. A new generation of web technology, ... -
A jigsaw puzzle layer cake of spatial data
Ma, Xiaogang; Fox, Peter (EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 2014-05-13)The Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE; http:// inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu) is a European Union (EU) directive that aims to provide a legal framework to share environmental spatial data among public ...