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The Governing Knowledge Commons Research Coordination Network

Time frame
2021-Present
Investigator
Madelyn Sanfilippo
Total funding to date
$16,818.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Knowledge commons refer to the institutionalized community governance of sharing, creating, and curating a wide range of intellectual and cultural resources. This project will establish a Research Coordination Network (RCN) designed to build a research community that will advance these scientific principles. In doing so it will aid in the development of empirical and theoretical insights into…

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The Internet of Musical Events Digital Scholarship Community and the Archiving of Performance (InterMuse)

Time frame
2021-Present
Investigator
J. Stephen Downie
Total funding to date
$100,840.00
Funding agency
University of York

This project arises from longstanding recognition of the challenges associated with the documentation of, and access to, collections of performance ephemera, for which the British Library is a key repository in the UK. Live musical events play a vital role in community life across the globe, yet they often leave only faint traces on the historical record, even in modern times. Sources can be…

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The Reading Time Machine: Transforming Astrophysical Literature into Actionable Data

Time frame
2021-Present
Investigator
Jill Naiman
Total funding to date
$506,912.00
Funding agency
NASA

This project is a collaboration with Harvard University and the Astrophysics Data System (ADS), a digital library portal operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. With over 15 million records, ADS is one of the most important archives in the scientific field of astronomy.

"Newer documents are ‘born digital,’ making them machine-readable and…

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The Whole Tale

Time frame
2016-Present
Investigators
Bertram Ludäscher, Matthew Turk
Total funding to date
$4,986,951.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Scholarly publications today are still mostly disconnected from the underlying data and code used to produce the published results and findings, despite an increasing recognition of the need to share all aspects of the research process. As data become more open and transportable, a second layer of research output has emerged, linking research publications to the associated data, possibly along…

Towards a Computational Framework for Disinformation Trinity: Heterogeneity, Generation, and Explanation

Time frame
2020-Present
Investigator
Jingrui He
Total funding to date
$319,568.00
Funding agency
Arizona State University

This project will study foreign influence via the lens of disinformation on news media from a computational perspective. The researchers will use Explainable Heterogeneous Adversarial Machine Learning (EXHALE) to address the limitations of current techniques in terms of comprehension, characterization, and explainability.

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Towards a Wearable Alcohol Biosensor: Examining the Accuracy of BAC Estimates from New-Generation Transdermal Technology using Large-Scale Human Testing and Machine Learning Algorithms

Time frame
2021-Present
Investigator
Nigel Bosch
Total funding to date
$21,267.00
Funding agency
National Institutes of Health

This NIH-funded project focuses on machine learning approaches for translating transdermal alcohol content (i.e., alcohol measured from a person’s skin) into blood alcohol content (“BAC”). Modern transdermal sensors are small, easy to use, and measure transdermal alcohol content frequently, but lag behind typical measures of BAC (especially breathalyzers) in terms of accuracy. This project…

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Towards Reliable and Optimized Data-driven Cyber-Physical Systems using Human-centric Sensing

Time frame
2021-2024
Investigator
Dong Wang
Total funding to date
$543,087.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Full title: CAREER: Towards Reliable and Optimized Data-driven Cyber-Physical Systems using Human-centric Sensing

Participatory science has opened opportunities for many to participate in data collection for science experiments about the environment, local transportation, disaster response, and public safety. The nature of the collection by non-scientists on a large scale carries…

human-centric sensing

Understanding the Needs of Scholars in a Contemporary Publishing Environment

Time frame
2015-Present
Investigator
Allen Renear
Total funding to date
$1,000,000.00
Funding agency
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

“Understanding the Needs of Scholars in a Contemporary Publishing Environment,” better know as Publishing Without Walls (PWW), is a digital scholarly publishing initiative that is scholar-driven, openly accessible, scalable, and sustainable. PWW will directly engage with scholars throughout the research process. It aims…

Unpacking the Librarian's Cabinet of Curiosity

Time frame
2011-Present
Total funding to date
$6,500.00
Funding agency
University of Illinois Research Board

For over two millennia, librarians have played a critical role in the production and transmission of knowledge. They have helped to collect, catalogue, and curate a vast range of materials that constitute much of our cultural heritagefrom epic poetry on papyrus scrolls to PDFs of scholarly articles. This project interrogates these practices by building a…

Weakly Supervised Graph Neural Networks

Time frame
2021-Present
Investigator
Jingrui He
Total funding to date
$149,921.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Graph Neural Networks have proven to be a powerful tool for harnessing graph data, which is widely used for representing rich relational information in multiple areas. However, the performance of graph neural networks largely depends on the amount of labeled data, which is subject to an expensive and time-consuming annotation process. This creates data without labels, or a label scarcity.…

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