Browsing Tetherless World Publications by Author "Ma, Xiaogang"

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 ...

A Justification for Semantic Training in Data Curation Frameworks Development

Ma, Xiaogang; Branch, Benjamin; Wegner, Kristin (2013-12-09)

In the complex data curation activities involving proper data access, data use optimization and data rescue, opportunities exist where underlying skills in semantics may play a crucial role in data curation professionals ...

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)

A SKOS-based multilingual thesaurus of geological time scale for interoperability of online geological maps

Ma, Xiaogang (2011-10-01)

Algorithms for multi-parameter constrained compositing of borehole assay intervals from economic aspects

Ma, Xiaogang (2010-07-01)

Compositing of borehole assay intervals based on economic aspects is a primary step when the cross-sectional method is applied in orebody modelling and mineral resources estimation. The compositing is important because the ...

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, ...

Call for Papers: Semantic eScience special issue in Earth Science Informatics journal

Ma, Xiaogang; Fox, Peter; Narock, Tom; Wilson, Brian (Earth Science Informatics, 2013-10-11)

CALL FOR PAPERS Earth Science Informatics, Special Issue - Semantic e-Science Guest Editors: Xiaogang Ma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, max7@rpi.edu Peter Fox, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, pfox@cs.rpi.edu Thomas ...

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, ...

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 exchange facilitated

Ma, Xiaogang (Nature Geoscience, 2011-12-01)

Data Science for Geoscience: Leveraging Mathematical Geosciences with Semantics and Open Data

Ma, Xiaogang (2018-06-26)

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)

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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)

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