Semantic Enablers for Next Generation Data Environments: Environmental and Disaster Data Focus

1. Semantic Enablers for Next Generation Data Environments: Environmental and Disaster Data Focus Deborah L. McGuinness Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science Web Science Research Center Director Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY With thanks to the extended RPI Tetherless World Team, particularly Jim McCusker, Katie Chastain, Zach Frye, John Erickson, Rui Yan April 19, 2013

2. Multi-Dimensional Data Portals First Responder Network Social Media: Reasoning on Graph Database Rensselaer Tetherless World Constellation Web Observatory Foundations & Directions Open Data Workflow International Open Government Data Sets • THEMES • Observatories: • Science, Open Government, Health and Life Science, Social • Web Science Research Foundations • Making Data Transparent and Actionable • Provenance • Semantic Methodology • Social Network Analysis • Semantically-Enabled Visualization • Web Data "Challenge Response" Enablers Health and Human Services Data Challenge Semantic eScience Data Portals

3. First Responder Portal(with NIST) How do we make First Responders*Safer and More Effective? Answer: Leverage Semantic Technologies and Social Media Analysis *Emergency Medical Personnel, Firefighters, and Police Officers McGuinness, Erickson, McCusker, Chastain, Frye, Yan

4. Social Observatory – First Responder effort (NIST funded) Finding Users Social Media use is on the rise. Every day, we write: 294 billion emails 2 million blog posts Over 40 Million Tweets* How can we leverage Social Media sites • to gather requirements for active First Responders? • to identify communities • to identify stakeholderswithin those First Responder communities? • To identify trends Finding Topics

5. Semantically-Enabled Environmental and Ecological Monitoring 5 • Where are pollution events happening? • What are the health impacts? • How does pollution correlate with population changes (wildlife, invasives, etc.)? Semantic Environmental Monitoring (SemantEco) • Enable/Empower communities (citizens & scientists) to explore pollution sites, facilities, regulations, and health impacts along with provenance • Connections to USGS, Lake George, IBM, expanding to discussions of predictions and intervention suggestions 1 4 2 6 1 • Explanation of pollution limits • Graphing thresholds and trends • Possible health effect of contaminant (EPA) • Filtering by facet to select type of data • Link for reporting problems • Extended with input from USGS, with population counts for birds & fish McGuinness, Patton, Seyed, Wang, et al.

6. Multi-dimensional Semantic Integration and Analysis Ex. Questions: • What intervention strategies correlate with decreased smoking? - By age group, geographic area, etc. • What scientific topic is emerging in a time period Semantic Web methodology, accountable mashups, multi-dimensional analysis, aggregation semantics tools Domain answer: bans and labeling for certain age brackets PopSciGrid with NIHlooked at “preventable cancers” , hypothesized contributors (smoking), and interventions – taxation, bans, labeling 6 Multi-dimensional Semantic Analysis work also being developed for the IARPA FUSE (Foresight and Understanding from Scientific Exposition Project McCusker,McGuinness,Lee,Thomas,Courtney,Tatalovich,Contractor,Morgan,Shaikh. Towards Next Generation Health Data Exploration: A Data Cube-based Investigation into Population Statistics for Tobacco, 2013

7. Creating More Accessible Health Data as Open Linked Data Variety of health questions • What is a good hospital for my concerns? (by condition, by bounceback, communication, etc. Semantic Data Environment (Prizms, DataCube Explorer, • Health and Human Services (HHS) Award winning platform • Being repurposed for mutations and malignant melanoma data in Melagrid Lebo, McCusker, Graves, Gloria, Erickson, Hendler, McGuinness

8. Ultimately: Community Science

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10. An Example: Hawaii Changes in cigarette use viewed against policy changes We link states from year to year to that state across time, adding data for each year.

11. Semantic Web Observatories • Web Observatories are emerging in many areas • Can be leveraged to engage broader types of communities -

12. Department of Health and Human Services'                  Developer Challenge A group from RPI TWC won first place in the competition, by using semantic technologies and in-house developed software, such as csv2rdf4lod, LODSPeaKr, Farrah and DataFAQS. 6

13. Example Workflow (SemantAqua) Publish CSV2RDF4LOD Direct visualize derive derive integrate archive Archive CSV2RDF4LOD Enhance

14. Open Government DataTWC –Intl Open Government Data Sets

15. First Responder Portal (with NIST):Gather requirements First Responders can be found via existing social media sites, then directed to new community portals for more focused engagement McGuinness, Erickson, McCusker, Chastain, Frye, Yan

16. First Responder Portal (with NIST):Finding Stakeholders and Communities Top #smem tweeters Top #wx tweeters

17. First Responder Portal (with NIST):Identifying Trends, Topics Topics mentioned with #wx McGuinness, Erickson, McCusker, Chastain, Frye, Yan