Digital Government Program

Integrating Metadata Development, XML, and DBMS Search and Query Techniques in a State of Wisconsin Land Information System

University of Illinois at Chicago
ADVIS Research Group

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Isabel Cruz (Faculty)
Afsheen Rajendran (RA, Graduate Student)
William Sunna (TA, Graduate Student)
Huiyong Xiao (RA, Graduate Student)
Haiyan Lin (RA, Graduate Student)
Yuan Feng Huang (RA, Graduate Student)
Anjli Chaudry (GA, Graduate Student)
Undergraduate Students		 Nancy Wiegand (Faculty)
Steve Ventura (Faculty)
Dan Patterson (Graduate Student)
Naijun Zhou (Graduate Student)
http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/grants/DG/ http://www.lic.wisc.edu/DG_Project/DGhomepage.html

Demo

URL: http://www.cs.uic.edu/~wsunna/597/axio2/axiodemo.html (The interface is in Javascript. Please allow for slow downloading).

Accompanying paper

Poster: dgdemo-presentation.ppt

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Other Demos

Conference and Journal Papers

  1. Isabel F. Cruz and Paul Calnan, Object Interoperability for Geospatial Applications: A Case Study (this version to appear in the book "The Emerging Semantic Web," IOS Press, 2002; preliminary version appeared in SWWS 2001)
  2. Isabel F. Cruz, Afsheen Rajendran, William Sunna, and Nancy Wiegand, Handling Semantic Heterogeneities using Declarative Agreements, ACM GIS, pp. 168-174, 2002.
  3. Isabel F. Cruz and Afsheen Rajendran, Semantic Data Integration in Hierarchical Domains, IEEE Intelligent Systems, March - April, pp. 66-73, 2003.
  4. Isabel F. Cruz, Haiyan Lin, and Yuan Feng Huang, A Framework for the Dynamic Presentation of Fused Multimedia Databases, International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, Ischia, Italy, pp.13-22, 2003.
  5. Isabel F. Cruz and Afsheen Rajendran, Exploring a New Approach to the Alignment of Ontologies,'' Workshop on Semantic Web Technologies for Searching and Retrieving Scientific Data, in cooperation with the
    International Semantic Web Conference, Sanibel Island, Florida, 2003.
  6. Isabel F. Cruz and Huiyong Xiao, Using a Layered Approach for Interoperability on the Semantic Web.4th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, Rome, Italy, 2003 (to appear).

Other Papers (see also the Wisconsin web page for this project):

  1. N. Wiegand, E. D. Patterson, N. Zhou, S. Ventura, and I. F. Cruz, Querying Heterogeneous Land Use Data: Problems and Potential in Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research, pp. 115-121, Los Angeles, California, May 2002.
  2. Isabel F. Cruz, Afsheen Rajendran, and William Sunna, XML Database Integration for Visualizing US Election Results in Proceedings of the National Conference on Digital Government Research, pp. 403-406, Los Angeles, California, May 2002.

Invited Talks and Tutorial

  1. Isabel Cruz, Semantic Data Integration, Data Mining and Exploration Middleware for Distributed and Grid Computing Workshop, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 2003.
  2. Isabel Cruz, DelaunayView: A Framework for the Dynamic Presentation of Fused Multimedia Databases, University of Rome "La Sapienza", June 2003.
  3. Isabel Cruz, Data Integration and the Semantic Web, GIScience Conference, Bouder, Colorado, September 2002.
  4. Isabel Cruz, Semantic Web and Web Services, Tutorial at the Supercomputing Conference, 2002 (Chapter 3 of a tutorial on Introduction to Infrastructure for the Analysis and Mining of Globally Distributed Data, with R.L. Grossman, Chapter 1, and Yike Guo, Chapter 2).

Technical Report

Isabel F. Cruz, Afsheen Rajendran, and William Sunna, Handling Semantic Heterogeneities using Declarative Agreements, ADVIS Technical Report, University of Illinois at Chicago (May 2002).

Acknowledgement and Disclaimer

This project is sponsored by the Digital Government Program of the National Science Foundation under Award EIA-0091489.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant no. 0091489. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Isabel F. Cruz