I am a researcher in the UMBC CS
department,
working on Spire. Spire is about
integrating ecological and environmental data on the
semantic web, with a focus on invasive
species. I sometimes data mine earth
science data,
space science data, and e-commerce server logs. I think there's a
future in data blogging,
and I need to
get back to blogging on Fieldmarking.
You can reach me at jsachs@cs.umbc.edu.
You can reach me at jsachs@cs.umbc.edu.
Upcoming
April 8-10 : Intergovernmental/Inter-agency Cooperation on Ecoinformatics, Research Triangle Park, NC
April 17 : NSF, Arlington, VA for a panel. I love/hate these.
Recent
SciBarCamp was amazing. I posted about it here and here.
I presented our semantic eco-blogging work at the 2007 Microsoft e-science workhop in Chappel Hill. (Microsoft will be posting video eventually.) The night before the meeting, I saw living legend Randy Weston at Duke University's Page Auditorium.
Earlier, I gave updates on Spire at NBII headquarters in Reston, and at the summer meeting of the Ecoinformatics Cooperation. My slides are here.
Some Publications
Andriy Parafiynyk et al., Adding Semantics to Social Websites for Citizen Science, Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic e-Science (AAAI 07), June 2007
Tim Finin et al., Finding Data, Knowledge, and Answers on the Semantic Web, Proceedings of the 20th International FLAIRS Conference
Tim Finin and Joel Sachs , Will the Semantic Web Change Science?, Science Next Wave, September 2004
Joel Sachs and Tim Finin, "Indexing the Hidden Web", Proc. Of the First NASA Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts, McLean, VA, Jan. 16, 2002
Hoban, S., J. Keating, J. Sachs, D. Laughlin & Y. Yesha, 2002. "Science Investigation System for Telescopes in Education Research", Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS36)
Suresh, R., J. Sachs, R. Pfister, J. Behnke, 2001, "Content Based Metadata Systems: A Workbench to Prototype Data Mining Concepts", Proc. Of the 2001NASA Earth Science Technology Office Workshop, Greenbelt, MD.
Joel Sachs and Olga Streltchenko, 1998, "Data Mining the SurfandBuy Virtual Mall", IBM Technical Report